Clan

Antonio Viviani (il Sordo)
Abraham and the Three Angels
ca. 1612
fresco
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Abraham and the Three Angels
1773
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Jacopo Vitali
Abraham and the Three Angels
1624
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Brunswick Monogrammist
Abraham conducting Isaac to Sacrifice
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Alessandro Allori
Sacrifice of Isaac
1583
oil on canvas (altarpiece)
Chiesa di San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence

Johann Liss
Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Francesco Monti (il Bolognese)
Study for Sacrifice of Isaac in Pendentive
before 1768
drawing
British Museum

Stefano Pieri
Sacrifice of Isaac
before 1629
oil on canvas
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

Jacopo Tintoretto and workshop
Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1550-55
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Frederic Taubes
Jacob wrestling with the Angel
1944
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Paul Gauguin
Vision of the Sermon (Jacob wrestling with the Angel)
1888
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Biagio d'Antonio
The Story of Joseph
ca. 1482
tempera on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Antoine-Denis Chaudet
Joseph sold by his Brothers
1784
terracotta relief (winner of the Prix de Rome)
Musée du Louvre

Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari)
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
ca. 1600-1605
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Cecco Bravo (Francesco Montelatici)
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
ca. 1655-60
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Francesco Granacci
Joseph presenting his Father and Brothers to Pharaoh
ca. 1515-17
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Mattia Preti (il Cavalier Calabrese)
Jacob blessing Joseph's Sons
ca. 1660-80
oil on canvas
private collection

Here, which looked north before the Cambrian alignment,

Like the cupped hand of the keen excavator

Busy with bones, the memory uncovers

        The hopes of time;

Of empires stiff in their brocaded glory,

The luscious lateral blossoming of woe

        Scented, profuse;

And of intercalary ages of disorder

When, as they prayed in antres, fell

Upon the noblest in the country night

        Angel assassins.

Small birds above me have the grace of those who founded

The civilisation of the delicate olive,

Learning the laws of love and sailing

        On the calm Aegean;

The hawk is the symbol of the rule by thirst,

The central state controlling the canals;

        And the blank sky

Of the womb's utter peace before

The cell, dividing, multiplied desire,

And raised instead of death the image

        Of the reconciler. 

– W.H. Auden (1933)

Basic

Karl Anton Reichel
Study of a Woman
1911
gouache on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giovanni Toschini
Bust of Heraclitus
ca. 1700
marble
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Julius Scholtz
Portrait of Helene-Therese,
Gräfin von Einsiedel-Wolkenburg
1874
oil on canvas
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

Ditlev Conrad Blunck
Danish Artists at a Roman Osteria
1837
oil on canvas
Frederiksborg Museum, Hillerød, Denmark

Anonymous Italian Maker
Nightshirt
19th century
linen and lace
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Philippe-Laurent Roland
Portrait of scientist Jean-Antoine Chaptal, comte de Chanteloup
ca. 1802
plaster
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Portrait of Franz Joseph, future Emperor of Austria
1832
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Friedrich von Amerling
Portrait of Princess Karoline von Liechtenstein
1837
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Michael Peter Ancher
Summer Evening on the Beach at Skagen
1897
oil on canvas
Skagens Museum, Denmark

Alonso Cano
Christ at the Column
before 1667
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Nils Dardel
Portrait of Ellen Roosval née Hallwyl
1919
watercolor on paper
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Domenico Guidi
The Virgin Annunciate
ca. 1670
marble
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Jacques-Louis David
Portrait of Anne-Marie Louise Thélusson,
comtesse de Sorcy
1790
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Louis-Désiré-Joseph Donvé
Portrait of artist Piat-Joseph Sauvage
1786
oil on canvas
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein
Portrait of Engel Christina Westphalen née Axen
ca. 1798
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

workshop of Luca della Robbia
Virgin and Child with Lilies
ca. 1460-70
glazed terracotta
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

After the peace and league made between the Lacedaemonians and Athenians after the ten years' war, Pleistolas being ephore at Lacedaemon and Alcaeus archon of Athens, though there were peace to those that had accepted it, yet the Corinthians and some cities of Peloponnesus endeavoured to overthrow what was done, and presently arose another stir by the confederates against Lacedaemon.  And the Lacedaemonians also after a while became suspect onto the Athenians for not performing somewhat agreed on in the articles.  And for six years and ten months they abstained from entering into each other's territories with their arms; but the peace being weak, they did each other abroad what harm they could, and in the end were forced to dissolve the peace made after those ten years, and fell again into open war. 

This also hath the same Thucydides of Athens written from point to point, by summers and winters, as everything came to pass, until such time as the Lacedaemonians and their confederates had made an end of the Athenians dominion and had taken their long walls and Pieraeus.  To which time, from the beginning of the war, it is in all twenty-seven years.*

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

*This indicates that Thucydides lived to the end of the war.  We do not know how much longer he lived after.  There is a story that he was executed by the Thirty Tyrants, the oligarchic government installed by the Lacedaemonians in Athens in 404-403.  The History breaks off in Book viii, when dealing with the events following 411.  Thucydides may have had notes for the progress of the war from then till the capture of Athens, but being busy with the revision and final draft of the rest of the work, and particularly Books i-iv, he was unable to give final shape to the last part and so did not leave it in form for publication.  

Bronzes

Ancient Greek Culture
Hydria
5th century BC
bronze
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Etruscan Culture
The Goddess Lasa
3rd-2nd century BC
bronze statuette
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Roman Empire
Bust of Plato
1st century AD
bronze relief appliqué
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Roman Empire
Mars
1st century AD
bronze statuette
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Roman Empire
Bust of Youth
1st-2nd century AD
bronze relief appliqué
(furniture ornament)
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Francesco di Giorgio Martini
St Anthony Abbot
ca. 1470-80
bronze plaquette
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
Bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
ca. 1500
gilt bronze
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Caradosso Foppa
Silenus and Maenads
1500
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Andrea Mantegna
St Sebastian
ca. 1500
gilt-bronze statuette
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Pietro Tacca
Tarquin and Lucretia
ca. 1630
bronze
Bode Museum, Berlin

Massimiliano Soldani after Gianlorenzo Bernini
Damned Soul
ca. 1705-1707
bronze
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Anton Mathias Joseph Domanöck
Venus at the Forge of Vulcan
1753
bronze relief
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Maenad
ca. 1865
bronze
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Pablo Picasso
Jester
1905
bronze
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Einar Utzon-Frank
Head of Aphrodite
1915
bronze
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Anonymous Artist
 Young Hercules
20th century
bronze
(forgery of Greek antiquity)
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

All this while the Athenians at Pylus besieged the Lacedaemonians in the island, and the army of the Peloponnesians in the continent remained still upon the place.  This keeping of watch was exceedingly painful to the Athenians in respect of the want they had both of corn and water, for there was no well but one and that was in the fort itself of Pylus and no great one.  And the greatest number turned up the gravel and drank such water as they were like to find there.  They were also scanted of room for their camp and their galleys not having place to ride in, they were forced by turns some to stay ashore and others to take their victual and lie off at anchor.  But their greatest discouragement was the time which they had stayed there longer than they had thought to have done, for they thought to have famished them out in a few days, being in a desert island and having nothing to drink but salt water.  The cause hereof were the Lacedaemonians, who had proclaimed that any man that would should carry in meal, wine, cheese, and all other esculents necessary for a siege into the island, appointing for the same a great reward of silver; and if any Helot should carry in any thing, they promised him liberty.  Hereupon divers with much danger imported victual, but especially the Helotes, who, putting off from all parts of Peloponnesus, wheresoever they chanced to be, came in at the parts of the island that lay to the wide sea.  But they had a care above all to take such a time as to be brought in with the wind.  For when it blew from the sea, they could escape the watch of the galleys easily; for they could not then lie round about the island at anchor.  And the Helotes were nothing tender in putting ashore, for they ran their galleys on ground, valued at a price in money; and the men of arms also watched at all the landing places of the island.  But as many as made attempt when the weather was calm were intercepted.  There were also such as could dive, that swam over into the island through the haven, drawing after them in a string bottles filled with poppy tempered with honey, and pounded linseed; whereof some at the first passed unseen, but were afterwards watched.  So that on either part they used all possible art, one side to send over food, the other to apprehend those that carried it.  

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

Solid

Ancient Greek Culture in South Italy
Ganymede, with Zeus as Eagle
3rd century BC
terracotta
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Etruscan Culture
Draped Young Woman
3rd century BC
terracotta
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

attributed to Luca della Robbia
Virgin and Child with Angels
ca. 1430-40
terracotta relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Donatello
Madonna and Child with Cherubs
ca. 1440-50
terracotta relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

attributed to Donatello
Madonna and Child with Cherubs
ca. 1445-50
terracotta relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Andrea della Robbia
Tondo with Portrait of a Youth
ca. 1470-80
glazed terracotta
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

workshop of Antonio Benintendi
Posthumous Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici
ca. 1515-20
terracotta
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giovanni della Robbia
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1510-20
partly-glazed terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Benedetto da Rovezzano
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1525
terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Jacopo Sansovino
St John the Evangelist
ca. 1550
terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Pieter Xavery
The Sheriff
1673
terracotta
(element in sculpture group)
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Giovanni Giuliani
Venus Anadyomene
1705
terracotta
(modello for sculpture)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Massimiliano Soldani
Descent from the Cross
ca. 1710-20
terracotta relief
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Joseph Chinard
Perseus and Andromeda
ca. 1785
terracotta
Detroit Institute of Arts

Gustave Deloye
Portrait of Therese, Countess Kinsky
garlanded by Putti
1871
terracotta
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Moissey Kogan
Seated Woman
ca. 1933
terracotta
Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany

About the time that this fleet was out, they [the Athenians] had surely the most galleys (besides the beauty of them) together in action in these employments; yet in the beginning of the war they had both as good and more in number.  For a hundred attended the guard of Attica, Euboea, and Salamis; and another hundred were about Peloponnesus, besides those that were at Potidaea and other places, so that in one summer they had in all two hundred and fifty sail.  And this, together with Potidaea, was it that most exhausted their treasure.  For the men of arms that besieged the city had each of them two drachmes a day, one for himself and another for his man, and were three thousand in number that were sent thither at first and remained to the end of the siege, besides sixteen hundred more that went with Phormio and came away before the town was won.  And the galleys had all the same pay.  In this manner was their money consumed and so many galleys employed, the most indeed that ever they had manned at once.

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