Thursday, July 16, 2026

Proles

Hans Thoma
Market Scene
1889
oil on canvas
Kunsthalle Mannheim

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Maternal Admonition
1850
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Peter Fendi
The Cautious Parlormaid
1834
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Gotthardt Kuehl
Orphans in Lübeck
1884
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Bernhard Kretzschmar
Attic
1919
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Peter Cornelius
Boulevard Richard Lenoir, Paris
ca. 1957
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Gaetano Gandolfi
Brawl among Card-Players
ca. 1770
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Rembrandt van Rijn
Woman relieving herself
1631
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Ferdinand Laufberger
Study of a Neapolitan
ca. 1863-64
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Walter Gramatté
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1920
pastel on paper
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Émile Lassalle after Louis-Léopold Robert
Harvester
(the pose is associated with Antinoüs)
1843
lithograph
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

August Sander
Earthbound Woman
1912
gelatin silver print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Laurits Andersen Ring
Women with Pram outside a Farmhouse
1906
oil on canvas
Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen

David Teniers the Younger
Peasants making Music
ca. 1650
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

John Sloan
Renganeschi's Saturday Night
1912
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Pretzel Seller
ca. 1740
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

The Boeotians, when they had erected their trophy, taken away their own dead, rifled those of the enemy, and left a guard upon the place, returned back to Tanagra and there entered into consultation for an assault to be made on Delium.  In the meantime, a herald sent from the Athenians to require the bodies met with a herald by the way sent by the Boeotians, which turned him back by telling him he could get nothing done till himself was returned from the Athenians.  This herald, when he came before the Athenians, delivered unto them what the Boeotians had given him in charge, namely, that they had done unjustly to transgress the universal law of the Grecians, being a constitution received by them all; that the invader of another's country should abstain from all holy places in the same; that the Athenians had fortified Delium and dwelt in it, and done whatsoever else men use to do in places profane, and had drawn that water to the common use, which was unlawful for themselves to have touched, save only to wash their hands for the sacrifice; that therefore the Boeotians, both in the behalf of the god and of themselves, invoking Apollo and all the interessed spirits, did warn them to be gone and to remove their stuff out of the temple.

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