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Xaver Fuhr Still Life (Rubber Plant) ca. 1925 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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Ton Kraayeveld Ostsicht 2013 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum |
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Linda Lothe Untitled 1999 porcelain with applied photo-print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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Anne Poirier and Patrick Poirier Antiquités du Louvre 1980 gum bichromate print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Roman Empire Winged Phallus 1st century AD bronze Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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Roman Empire Cinerary Urn AD 20-40 marble Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Severo da Ravenna Candlestick on Clawfoot ca. 1520 bronze Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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Vladimir Tatlin Model for Monument to the Third International original built 1919-20, replica executed 1976 wood, metal, plastic Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Eilif Amundsen Chair 1992 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Anonymous French Artist Ovula Gisortiani ca. 1860 albumen print Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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Amalia Årfelt Potato Eyes 2008 etching Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Hans Bellmer Les Jeux de la Poupée ca. 1938 hand-colored gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Harry Callahan Weed against Sky 1948 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Christo Study for Otterlo Mastaba 1974 drawing (colored pencils) Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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Jean-Jules Dufour Russian Bird 1915 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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Lee Friedlander Nashville 1963 gelatin silver print Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
Going through the woods, about six hundred yards from the shore we saw a bronze pillar with a faded, worn inscription in Greek that said "Hercules and Dionysus reached this point." Nearby, on a rock, were two footprints, one a hundred feet long, the other smaller. The smaller I supposed to belong to Dionysus, the other to Hercules.* We made our obeisances and went on. Before we had gone very far, we found ourselves beside a river running wine very like Chian; it was of some size and depth, even being navigable in some places. We were led to put much more confidence in the inscription on the pillar when we saw this evidence of Dionysus's visit. I decided to find the source of the river. Going upstream I found, not indeed any spring from which it issued, but a great many large vines loaded with grapes. By the root of each of these flowed a trickle of wine, and it was from these that the river was formed. We could actually see a lot of fish in it. Their flesh was vinous both in color and taste; anyway, we caught some and got drunk eating them. Of course they were full of wine lees when we cut them open. Later on, though, we hit on the idea of mixing them with water-fish and thus diluting this strong wine-food.
*Herodotus speaks of a footprint three feet long left by Hercules in Scythia.
– Lucian, from A True Story (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by B.P. Reardon (1989)