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| Hans Rottenhammer Phaethon driving the Sun-Chariot awry and scorching the Earth 1604 oil on copper Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Franz Radziwill The Fatal Crash of Karl Buchstätter 1928 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Bertel Thorvaldsen Dante and Virgil touring Hell on the back of Geryon (scene from the Inferno) ca. 1800 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Pietro Testa Personifications of the Heavenly Spheres surrounding the Earth ca. 1642-44 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Knut Rumohr Aggressive Form 1972 tempera on canvas Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Paul Scheurich Modeausstellung der Bekleidungsindustrie 1912 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Henri Rousseau Representatives of Foreign Powers assembled to honor the French Republic 1907 oil on canvas Musée Picasso, Paris |
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| Piero di Cosimo Virgin and Child enthroned with St Dominic, St Peter, St John the Baptist and St Nicolas of Bari ca. 1481-85 tempera and oil on panel (altarpiece) Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Thomas Rowlandson Interior of Library with a Meeting of the Bluestocking Club ca. 1810 drawing, with added watercolor Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Max Slevogt Requiem Mass for deceased Knights of Saint George 1908 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Wilhelm Tischbein Two Ancient Heroes returning Home with Spoils of the Hunt 1786 watercolor on paper Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Neal Preston A Star is Born - Photography and Rock since Elvis 2010 exhibition poster Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Roman Empire Julia Domna, Septimius Severus and sons Geta and Caracalla (Geta defaced after his murder by Caracalla in 212) AD 200 tempera on panel Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Adalbert Franz Seligmann Demonstration in the Surgical Theater at Vienna General Hospital ca. 1888-90 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Luc Simon Les Ateliers - A part toi je n'ai plus rien à dire 1983-85 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Charley Toorop Clown in the Ruins of Rotterdam 1940-41 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
I should like to describe the novel and unusual things I noticed during my stay on the Moon. First of all, they are born not of woman but of man; their marriages are of male with male, and they do not even know the word "woman" at all. Up to the age of twenty-five they all act as female partners, and thereafter as husbands. Pregnancy occurs not in the womb but in the calf of the leg, for after conception the calf grows fat. After a time they cut it open and bring out a lifeless body, which they lay out with its mouth open facing the wind and bring to life. I imagine that this is the origin of the Greek word "calf,"* inasmuch as on the Moon it is this part of the body that produces young, and not the belly. But I shall tell you about something more marvelous yet. There is on the Moon a kind of men called Treemen, and the manner of their generation is as follows. They cut off a man's right testicle and plant it in the ground; from it there grows an enormous tree of flesh, like a phallus. It has branches and foliage, and its fruit is acorns as long as the forearm. When they are ripe, they harvest them and carve men from them, adding genitals of ivory, or of wood for the poorer ones; these are what they use to consummate their male marriages.
*the Greek word for "calf of the leg" is literally "belly of the leg"
– Lucian, from A True Story (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by B.P. Reardon (1989)