Pyre

Anonymous Spanish Makers
Reliquary Bust of St Ferdinand
ca. 1500 (head) and ca. 1850-1900 (bust)
partly-gilt silver and gems
Musée du Louvre

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Untitled
ca. 1949-50
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Domenico Ghirlandaio
Risen Chris appearing to the Virgin
ca. 1490
tempera and gold on panel
Musée du Louvre

Jasper Johns
Pyre
2003
encaustic on canvas, with wood
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous English Makers
Etui Nécessaire
ca. 1760-70
case with agate panels set in gold
and containing gold implements
Musée du Louvre

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Child with Mask, Chicago
1960
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Domenico Ghirlandaio
St Christopher
ca. 1472-75
detached fresco
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jasper Johns
Pyre 2
2003
oil on canvas, with wood
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous German Makers
Lidded Mug with Snail and Seashells
17th century
ivory
Musée du Louvre

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Untitled
ca. 1949-50
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Domenico Ghirlandaio
St James the Greater flanked by St Stephen and St Peter
1493
tempera and oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Jasper Johns
Land's End
1963
oi -on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Anonymous French Maker
Biberon (infant feeding bottle)
16th century
blown glass
Musée du Louvre

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Untitled
ca. 1949-50
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Domenico Ghirlandaio
Three Heroes of Antiquity - Julius Caesar, Mucius Scaevola and Marcus Furius Camillus
ca. 1482-84
fresco
Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Jasper Johns
Zero through Nine
1970
lead relief
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous Japanese Maker
Vase in form of a Carp
before 1880
porcelain
Musée du Louvre

from In Time of War

Always far from the centre of our names,

The little workshop of love: yes, but how wrong

We were about the old manors and the long

Abandoned Folly and the children's games.

Only the acquisitive expects a quaint

Unsaleable product, something to please

An artistic girl; it's the selfish who sees

In every impractical beggar a saint.

We can't believe that we ourselves designed it,

A minor item of our daring plan

That caused no trouble; we took no notice of it.

Disaster comes, and we're amazed to find it

The single product that since work began

Through all the cycle showed a steady profit.

– W.H. Auden (1938)

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.