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| Carolus-Duran Portrait of art dealer Gustave Tempelaere 1871 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Charley Toorop Mother and Child 1934 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Agostino Marchesi after Correggio Oval with Putti and Stag's Head and Lunette with Figure of Chastity 1843 watercolor on paper (print study) Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Eugen, Prince of Sweden Nike in Snow at Waldemarsudde 1932 oil on board Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome ca. 1835-40 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Lovis Corinth Portrait of Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz 1917 oil on canvas Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin |
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| André Derain Portrait of a Woman ca. 1925 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Hans Holbein the Younger Portrait of Braunschweig merchant Cyriacus Kale 1533 oil on panel Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Hans Using after Gregor Bieber Stage Set with Persian Pleasure-Garden 1655 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Gaetano Vascellini after Giambologna Fountain with Oceanus and River Gods, Giardino di Boboli, Florence 1789 engraving Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Anonymous Swiss Artist Pressmark of Johann Froben of Basel ca. 1510 woodcut Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Adriaen Collaert Minerva before 1618 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Virgil Solis Ceres before 1562 etching and engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Anonymous Austrian Artist Académie ca. 1900 drawing Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Henri-Louis Levavasseur Venus de Milo ca. 1875 oil on paper (grisaille) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Karl Albiker Standing Youth 1910-11 bronze (half life-size) Museum Folkwang, Essen |
In a shady grove of Locris, the Nymphs washed the body of Hesiod with water from their springs and raised a tomb to him. And on it the goat-herds poured libations of milk mixed with golden honey. For even such was the song the old man breathed who had tasted the pure fountains of the nine Muses.
Ascra, the land of broad corn-fields, was my country, but the land of the charioteer Minyae holds my bones now I am dead. I am Hesiod, the most glorious in the eyes of the world of men who are judged by the test of wisdom.
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The earth in her bosom hides here the body of Plato, but his soul has its immortal station among the blest, the soul of Ariston's son, whom every good man, even if he dwell in a far land, honours in that he saw the divine life.
Here lieth the divine Aristocles* who excelled all mortals in temperance and the ways of justice. If any one gained from all men much praise for wisdom it was he, and no envy therewith.
Question: "Eagle, why standest thou on the tomb, and on whose, tell me, and why gazest thou at the starry home of the gods?" Answer: "I am the image of the soul of Plato that hath flown away to Olympus, but his earth-born body rests here in Attic earth."
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*Plato's original name