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Felice Giani Vestal Virgins showing the Will of Augustus to Tiberius and the Senate ca. 1785-90 drawing Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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Francesco Fontebasso St Gregory the Great and St Vitalis interceding with the Virgin for Souls in Purgatory ca. 1730-31 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard Scene of Persecuted Prisoners condemned to the Pyre ca. 1830-40 oil on canvas (modello for larger painting) Musée Magnin, Dijon |
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Jean Fouquet St Vrain, Bishop of Cavaillon, banishing Demons from the Possessed ca. 1452-60 tempera on vellum Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
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Conrad Felixmüller Blast Furnaces at Night, Klöckner Werke, Haspe 1927 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Giordano Bruno - Das Neue Jahrhundert (tragedy by Otto Borngräber staged at Weimar) 1902 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Siegwald Dahl Salon in Dresden of the Danish Minister, Count Moltke-Huitfeldt 1851 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Carlo Ferrario Ulrica's Hut (stage-design for Giuseppe Verdi's Ballo in Maschera) ca. 1870 watercolor on paper Morgan Library, New York |
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Vinzenz Fischer Allegory of the Transfer of Artworks from the Imperial Gallery to the Belvedere 1781 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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Ian Hamilton Finlay Someone Somewhere wants a Cable from You 1981-82 screenprint Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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William Powell Frith Lady Mary Wortley Montagu laughing at the romantic advances of Alexander Pope 1852 oil on canvas Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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Étienne-Barthélemy Garnier Priam and his Family mourning the Death of Hector 1792 watercolor on paper (sketch for painting) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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Étienne-Barthélemy Garnier Priam and his Family mourning the Death of Hector 1792 oil on canvas Musée des Ursulines de Mâcon |
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Théodore Géricault Grooms preparing Arab Stallion to cover waiting Mare before 1824 watercolor and gouache on paper Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
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Corrado Giaquinto St Helena and the Emperor Constantine presented by the Virgin to the Holy Trinity ca. 1741-42 oil on canvas (modello for ceiling painting) Saint Louis Art Museum |
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Åke Göransson Pull-out Sofa with Odin Statue ca. 1926-29 oil on canvas Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
Soon there came into sight nearby the Island of Dreams, but it was faint and hard to make out. The island itself was like the dreams in a way, in that as we approached, it receded before us, retreated, retired farther off. At last we caught up with it and sailed into Sleep Harbor, as it is called. . . . The dreams themselves varied in character and appearance. Some were tall and handsome, others short and misshapen; some appeared to be made of gold, others were poor and shabby. There were winged dreams among them and monster-dreams and dreams in carnival costume – some dressed up as kings, some as gods, and so on. Many of them in fact we recognized, having seen them before at home; they came up and greeted us like old friends, took us in charge, put us to sleep, and showed us most excellent and ingenious entertainment.
– Lucian, from A True Story (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by B.P. Reardon (1989)