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| Willy Wolff Giorgione 1970 oil on panel Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Marcantonio Raimondi after Francesco Francia Allegorical Scene ca. 1510 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Sophie Prell Three Yellow Peppers 1886 oil on panel Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Siren 450 BC painted terracotta Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| attributed to Benedetto Bordone Triumphal Procession (from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna published by Aldus Manutius in Venice) 1499 woodcut Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Max Ernst Hausengel 1937 oil on canvas Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Jacques Androuet du Cerceau the Elder Design for Lidded Cup ca. 1555 etching Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Erasmus Quellinus the Younger The Virgin bestowing a Stole on St Hubert in the presence of St Nicholas of Tolentino 1669 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen |
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| Christopher Wool Kidnapped 1994 enamel on aluminum Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Karl Blechen Stage Design - Egyptian Temple 1826 watercolor on paper Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Carl Theodore von Blaas Anatomical Study 1832 drawing Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Johann Rudolf Rahn Baptistry Mosaics, Basilica di San Giovanni in Fonte, Ravenna 1867 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Anita Rée Self Portrait with Prickly Pear ca. 1922-25 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Alexandre Jacovleff (Aleksandr Yakovlev) Model Washing her Hair 1929 tempera on linen Brooklyn Museum |
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| Matts Leiderstam The Eruption of Vesuvius 2000 gelatin silver print Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Matts Leiderstam The Eruption of Vesuvius 2000 C-print Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
For these first the man chosen to make the oration was Pericles the son of Xantippus, who, when the time served, going out of the place of burial into a high pulpit to be heard the farther off by the multitude about him, spake unto them in this manner: "Though most that have spoken formerly in this place have commended the man that added this oration to the law as honourable for those that die in the wars, yet to me it seemeth sufficient that they who have showed their valour by action should also by an action have their honour, as now you see they have, in this their sepulture performed by the state, and not to have the virtue of many hazarded on one to be believed as that one shall make a good or bad oration. For to speak of men in a just measure, is a hard matter; and though one do so, yet he shall hardly get the truth firmly believed. The favourable hearer and he that knows what was done will perhaps think what is spoken short of what he would have it and what it was, and he that is ignorant will find somewhat on the other side which he will think too much extolled, especially if he hear aught above the pitch of his own nature. For to hear another man praised finds patience so long only as each man shall think he could himself have done somewhat of that he hears. And if one exceed in their praises, the hearer presently through envy thinks it false. But since our ancestors have so thought good, I also, following the same ordinance, must endeavour to be answerable to the desires and opinions of everyone of you, as far forth as I can."
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)
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