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| Irving Penn Ingmar Bergman, Stockholm 1964 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Guido Reni Christ crowned with Thorns ca. 1630 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Peter Staronosov Portrait of Stalin 1933 wood engraving Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Emil Nolde Head of a Prophet ca. 1931 watercolor on paper Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg |
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| Alexandre Falguière Self Portrait ca. 1865-70 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Thomas Frye Self Portrait 1760 mezzotint Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Filippo Mazzola Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1500-1505 tempera on panel Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Jusepe de Ribera Ecce Homo 1644 oil on canvas Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Head of Magus ca. 1750-55 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Rembrandt van Rijn Self Portrait ca. 1631 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Ulf Nilsen Large Head 1979 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Janus Lutma the Younger Self Portrait 1681 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Filippino Lippi Head of a Man ca. 1480 drawing Musée Condé, Chantilly |
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| Käthe Kollwitz Head of a Woman ca. 1905 etching and aquatint Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Adolph Menzel Lady with Mourning Veil 1892 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Jacques-Raymond Brascassat Head of a Roman Woman 1828 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
Hermes, who dwellest in this wave-beaten rock-cave that gives good footing to fisher gulls, accept this fragment of the great seine worn by the sea and scraped often by the rough beach; this little purse-seine, the round weel that entraps fishes, the float whose task it is to mark where the weels are concealed, and the long cane rod, the child of the marsh, with its horse-hair line, not unfurnished with hooks, wound round it.
Heliodorus dedicates to the Syrian Goddess in the porch of this temple his net worn out in vain. It is untainted by any catch of fish, but he hauled out plenty of sea-weed in it on the spacious beach of the anchorage.
Old Cinyras, weary of long fishing, dedicates to the Nymphs this worn sweep-net; for no longer could his trembling hand cast it freely to open in an enfolding circle. If the gift is but a small one, it is not his fault, ye Nymphs, for this was all Cinyras had to live on.
Baeto the fisherman, having reached trembling old age, offers thee, Hermes, these gifts, his pliant rods, his oar, whip of his boat, his curved, pointed hooks, his encompassing circular net weighted with lead, the floats that testify to where the weels lie in the sea, a pair of well-woven creels, this stone, the mother of fire, and his anchor, the stay of his unstable boat.
Old Amyntichus, his toil on the deep over, bound his lead-weighted net round his fishing spear, and to Poseidon and the salt sea wave said, shedding tears, "Thou knowest, Lord, that I am weary with toil – and now in my evil old age wasting Poverty, from whom there is no release, is in her youthful prime. Feed the old man while he yet breathes, but from the land as he wishes, thou who art Lord over both land and sea."
– from Book VI (Dedicatory Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, edited and translated by W.H. Paton (1916)