Genoux - IV

Bicci di Lorenzo
Virgin and Child enthroned with Angels
1433
tempera on panel
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Virgin and Child
with St Jerome, St Anthony of Padua and Angels
ca. 1469-72
tempera on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Neroccio de' Landi
Virgin and Child
with St Anthony Abbot and St Sigismund
ca. 1490-95
tempera on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Raphael
Virgin and Child
(The Orléans Madonna)
ca. 1505-1507
oil on panel
Musée Condé, Chantilly

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1509-1512
oil on panel
Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania

Ambrogio Bergognone
Virgin and Child
ca. 1512-20
tempera on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Bernardino Luini
Virgin and Child
(Madonna of the Carnation)
ca. 1515
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Domenico Puligo (Domenico Ubaldini)
Virgin and Child
ca. 1515-17
oil on panel
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci)
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1529-30
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Jacopo Sansovino
Virgin and Child
ca. 1530-40
painted papier-maché relief
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Marcellus Coffermans
Virgin and Child enthroned with Musical Angels
ca. 1550-75
oil on panel
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Sofonisba Anguissola
Virgin and Child
1598
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Jan Brueghel the Younger
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
ca. 1626
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Virgin and Child
ca. 1641
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Francesco Mancini
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
ca. 1725
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Carle Vanloo
Virgin and Child
1738
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

But the rest of the Thebans that should with their whole power have been there before day for fear the surprise should not succeed with those that were in, came so late with their aid that they heard the news of what was done by the way.  Now Plataea is from Thebes seventy furlongs, and they marched the slower for the rain which had fallen the same night.  For the river Asopus was swollen so high that it was not easily passable.  So that what by the foulness of the way and what by the difficulty of passing the river, they arrived not till their men were already some slain and some taken prisoners.  When the Thebans understood how things had gone, they lay in wait for such of the Plataeans as were without (for there were abroad in the villages both men and household stuff, as was not unlikely, the evil happening unexpectedly and in time of peace), desiring, if they could take any prisoners, to keep them for exchange for those of theirs within, which (if any were so) were saved alive.  This was the Thebans' purpose.  But the Plataeans, whilst they were yet in council, suspecting that some such thing would be done and fearing their case without, sent a herald unto the Thebans whom they commanded to say that what they had already done, attempting to surprise their city in time of peace, was done wickedly, and to forbid them to do any injury to those without, and that otherwise they would kill all those men of theirs that they had alive, which, if they would withdraw their forces out of their territory, they would again restore unto them.  Thus the Thebans say, and that the Plataeans did swear it.  But the Plataeans confess not that they promised to deliver them presently but upon treaty if they should agree, and deny that they swore it.  Upon this the Thebans went out of their territory; and the Plataeans, when they had speedily taken in whatsoever they had in the country, immediately slew their prisoners.  They that were taken were one hundred and eighty; and Eurymachus, with whom the traitors had practised, was one.

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)