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| Oliviero Gatti after Pordenone God the Father creating the World 1615 engraving (after church fresco in Piacenza) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Guglielmo Caccia God the Father before 1625 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Bartholomeus Spranger God the Father with the Holy Spirit ca. 1582 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Genoese Artist Musical Angels on Clouds ca. 1650-1700 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Ubaldo Gandolfi Ceiling Design with Musical Angels before 1781 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| François Boucher Three Cherubs ca. 1750 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Luca Cambiaso God the Father observing the Martyrdom of a Saint before 1585 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Samuel Bottschild Angel ca. 1675 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Gaspare Diziani Angel in Clouds before 1767 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Gaspare Diziani Flying Putti with Fish Tails before 1767 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Flying Putti ca. 1590 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Jacob de Wit Three Cherub-Heads in Clouds before 1754 pastel on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Foreshortened Figure on Cloud before 1762 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Foreshortened Figure on Cloud before 1762 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giocondo Albertolli Ceiling Decoration for Palazzo Casnedi in Milan ca. 1780 hand-colored etching Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Printmaker Design for Ceiling Decoration 16th century woodcut Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
The army of the Peloponnesians marching forward came first to Oenoe, a town of Attica, the place where they intended to break in, and encamping before it, prepared with engines and by other means to assault the wall. For Oenoe, lying on the confines between Attica and Boeotia, was walled about, and the Athenians kept a garrison in it for defence of the country when at any time there should be war. For which cause they made preparation for the assault of it, and also spent much time about it otherwise.
And Archidamus [Lacedaemonian general] for this was not a little taxed as thought to have been both slow in gathering together the forces for the war and also to have favoured the Athenians in that he encouraged not the army to a forwardness in it. And afterwards likewise his stay in the isthmus and his slowness in the whole journey was laid to his charge, but especially his delay at Oenoe. For in this time the Athenians retired into the city: whereas it was thought that the Peloponnesians, marching speedily, might but for this delay have taken them all without. So passionate was the army of Archidamus for his stay before Oenoe. But expecting that the Athenians, whilst their territory was yet unhurt, would relent and not endure to see it wasted, for that cause (as it was reported) he held his hand.
– 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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