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| Thomas Ochsenbrunner Roman Worthy - Numa Pompilius 1494 hand-colored woodcut and letterpress (excised from printed book) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Marcia Hafif Red Painting: Paliogen Maroon 2000 oil on canvas Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| Georg Schrimpf Woman with Mirror 1926 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Anthonie Pieter Schotel Paint Box ca. 1930 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands |
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| Witold Wojtkiewicz Dolls 1906 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Franz von Zülow Dreamscape 1942 oil paint and watercolor on paper Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Franz von Zülow Dreamscape 1942 oil paint and watercolor on paper Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Moritz von Schwind Emperor Maximilian I in the Martinswand ca. 1860 oil on panel Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Josef Albers Homage to the Square: Remote 1960 oil on masonite Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Sphinx 570-550 BC marble (excavated in Attica) National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
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| Antonio del Pollaiuolo David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1465-70 tempera on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Emil Orlik The Anarchist ca. 1898 lithograph Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Anton Hanak Study for Self Portrait ca. 1931-32 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Jackson Pollock Two-Sided Painting 1950-51 oil and enamel on canvas Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Adam Friedrich Oeser The Bookworm 1782 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Vilhelm Hammershøi Interior, Strandgade 30 1905 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
"We have a form of government not fetched by imitation from the laws of our neighbouring states (nay, we are rather a pattern to others, than they to us) which, because in the administration it hath respect not to a few but to the multitude, is called democracy. Wherein, though there be an equality amongst all men in point of law for their private controversies, yet in conferring of dignities one man is preferred before another to public charge, and that according to the reputation not of his house but of his virtue, and is not put back through poverty for the obscurity of his person as long as he can do good service to the commonwealth. And we live not only free in the administration of the state but also one with another void of jealousy touching each other's daily course in life, not offended at any man for following his own humour, nor casting on any man censorious looks, which though they be no punishment, yet they grieve. So that conversing one with another for the private without offence, we stand chiefly in fear to transgress against the public and are obedient always to those that govern and to the laws, and principally to such laws as are written for protection against injury, and such unwritten as bring undeniable shame to the transgressors."
"We have also found out many ways to give our mind recreation from labour by public institution of games and sacrifices for all the days of the year with a decent pomp and furniture of the same by private men, by the daily delight whereof we expel sadness. We have this farther by the greatness of our city that all things from all parts of the earth are imported hither, whereby we no less familiarly enjoy the commodities of all other nations than our own."
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)