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František Drtikol Praha 1910 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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František Drtikol Praha 1911 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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František Drtikol Reverie 1915 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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František Drtikol Ervina 1920 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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František Drtikol Nude & Ball ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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František Drtikol Seated Nude ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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František Drtikol Untitled ca. 1927 gum bichromate print Art Institute of Chicago |
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František Drtikol Nude ca. 1927-29 bromoil print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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František Drtikol Composition: Nude standing among Circular Constructions ca. 1928 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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František Drtikol Untitled ca. 1928 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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František Drtikol Nude & Box 1928 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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František Drtikol Nude ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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František Drtikol Untitled ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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František Drtikol Untitled ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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František Drtikol Untitled ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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František Drtikol Untitled (Nude & Patterned Curtain) before 1961 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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František Drtikol Untitled (Nude & Roses) before 1961 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
from Pharsalia
Nor in the dying Embers of its Pile
Slept the great Soul upon the Banks of Nile,
Nor longer, by the Earthly Parts restrain'd,
Amidst its wretched Reliques was detain'd;
But active, and impatient of Delay,
Shot from the mould'ring Heap, and upward urg'd its way.
Far in those Azure Regions of the Air
Which border on the rowling starry Sphere,
Beyond our Orb, and nearer to that height,
Where Cinthia drives around her Silver Light;
Their happy Seats the Demy-Gods possess,
Refin'd by Virtue, and prepar'd for Bliss;
Of Life unblam'd, a pure and pious Race,
Worthy that lower Heav'n and Stars to grace,
Divine, and equal to the glorious Place.
There Pompey's Soul, adorn'd with heav'nly Light,
Soon shone among the rest, and as the rest was bright.
New to the blest Aboad, with Wonder fill'd,
The Stars and moving Planets he beheld;
Then looking down on the Sun's feeble Ray,
Survey'd our dusky, faint, imperfect Day,
And under what a Cloud of Night we lay.
But when he saw, how on the Shoar forlorn
His headless Trunk was cast for publick Scorn;
When he beheld, how envious Fortune, still,
Took Pains to use a senseless Carcass ill,
He smil'd at the vain Malice of his Foe,
And pity'd impotent Mankind below.
Then lightly passing o'er Æmathia's Plain,
His flying Navy scatter'd on the Main,
And cruel Caesar's Tents; he fix'd at last
His Residence in Brutus' sacred Breast:
There brooding o'er his Country's Wrongs he sate,
The State's Avenger, and the Tyrant's Fate;
There mournful Rome might still her Pompey find,
There, and in Cato's free unconquer'd Mind.
– Lucan (AD 39-65), translated by Nicholas Rowe (1718)