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| Piet Mondrian Picture II with Yellow, Red and Blue 1936-43 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Aristarkh Lentulov Self Portrait 1915 oil paint and collage on canvas State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| Hans Burgkmair the Elder Car of the Fools Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian I ca. 1526 woodcut Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Virgil Solis Antique Ornamental Geometric Patterns before 1562 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Joaquín Torres-Garcia Constructivist Structure with Geometrical Forms 1943 oil on panel Musée nationale d'art moderne, Paris |
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| Robert Leemann Ex Libris - Ludwig Gerster ca. 1880 woodcut Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Eric Gill W.H. Smith & Son's Library ca. 1909 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Antoine Lafréry Antique Herm of Satyr and Youth 1569 engraving (book illustration) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Philipp Veit Athena advising Penelope ca. 1832 watercolor and gouache on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jean de Tournes (printer) Portal Design by Sebastiano Serlio 1551 engraving (book illustration) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
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| Johann Georg Schreiber Hohmann Haus, Leipzig ca. 1710 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Peter Joseph Krahe Façades by Giulio Romano in Mantua ca. 1786 drawing, with addedwatercolor Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Anonymous Artist Scuola di Santa Maria degli Albanesi (façade in Venice) 19th century drawing Max Planck Institute for Art History, Florence |
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| Andrea Palladio Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Rome - façade and details (illustration to Quattro Libri dell'Architettura) 1581 anonymous woodcut after Palladio drawing Hamburger, Kunsthalle |
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| Ludwig Krug Adam and Eve ca. 1514 limestone relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Loy Hering Adam and Eve ca. 1550 limestone relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
Let us go to the temple to see the statue of Aphrodite, how cunningly wrought it is of gold. Polyarchis erected it, having gained much substance from the glory of her own body.
Let us stand on the low beach of the sea-washed promontory, gazing at the sanctuary of Cypris of the Sea, and the spring overshadowed by poplars from which the yellow kingfishers sip with their bills the running water.
Hector of the race of Ares, if thou hearest where'er thou art under ground, hail! and stay a little thy sighs for thy country. Ilion is inhabited, and is a famous city containing men inferior to thee, but still lovers of war, while the Myrmidons have perished. Stand by his side and tell Achilles that all Thessaly is subject to the sons of Aeneas.
If at the right season thou callest upon me too, little among the lesser gods, thou shalt get thy wish, but crave not for great things. For I, Tychon,* have in my power to grant only such things as the people's god may give to a labouring man.
An epigram of two lines has every merit, and if you exceed three lines it is rhapsody, not epigram.
– from Book IX (Declamatory and Descriptive Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*he was a god worshipped in company with or in place of Priapus