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| Barthel Beham Portrait of Herzog Wilhelm IV von Bayern 1533 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Portrait of Febo da Brescia ca. 1543-44 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Louis-Marie Autissier Portrait of a Young Woman 1819 watercolor on vellum (cabinet miniature) Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp |
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| Franz Xaver Winterhalter Portrait of Empress Eugénie 1864 oil on canvas Château de Compiègne |
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| Bernard van Orley Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1510-20 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ferdinand Bol Man with Furs ca. 1646-48 oil on canvas Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Adolph Menzel Study of Fur Wrap tossed onto Sofa ca. 1840-50 oil on paper Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar Muff 1647 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar Muff 1647 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Jean-Étienne Liotard Portrait of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria ca. 1743-45 pastel on vellum Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp |
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| attributed to Jean Ranc after Hyacinthe Rigaud Portrait of Louis XIV ca. 1701 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Pierre Goudreaux Portrait of Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine 1724 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| George Bellows Portrait of sculptor Robert Aitken 1921 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Koloman Moser Three Women on Street Corner 1903 woodcut Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli) Portrait of a Young Man (formerly identified as Buonamico Buffalmacco) ca. 1510 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar after Giorgione Portrait of Buonamico Buffalmacco 1650 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
In the very beginning of summer the Peloponnesians and their confederates, with two-thirds of their force as before, invaded Attica under the conduct of Archidamus the son of Zeuxidamas, king of Lacedaemon, and after they had encamped themselves, wasted the country about them. They had not been many days in Attica when the plague first began amongst the Athenians, said also to have seized formerly on diverse other parts, as about Lemnos and elsewhere; but so great a plague and mortality of men was never remembered to have happened in any place before. For at first neither were the physicians able to cure it through ignorance of what it was but died fastest themselves, as being the men that most approached the sick, nor any other art of man availed whatsoever. All supplications to the gods and enquiries of oracles and whatsoever other means they used of that kind proved all unprofitable; insomuch as subdued with the greatness of the evil, they gave them all over.
It began, by report, first in that part of Ethiopia that lieth upon Egypt, and thence fell down into Egypt and Africa and into the greatest part of the territories of the king. It invaded Athens on a sudden and touched first upon those that dwelt in Piraeus, insomuch as they reported that the Peloponnesians had cast poison into their wells (for springs there were not any in that place). But afterwards it came up into the high city, and then they died a great deal faster. Now let every man, physician or other, concerning the ground of this sickness, whence it sprung, and what causes he thinks able to produce so great an alteration, speak according to his own knowledge. For my own part, I will deliver but the manner of it and lay open only such things as one may take his mark by to discover the same if it come again, having been both sick of it myself and seen others sick of the same.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)