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.  

Ego Vivo

Jacques-Laurent Agasse
Self Portrait at age 18
1785
pastel on vellum
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Max Beckmann
Self Portrait at age 15
1899
oil on canvas
Sprengel Museum, Hannover

Caspar Berger
Ego Vivo / Self Portrait 25
2013
mixed-media sculpture installation
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

Ami Bergman
Self Portrait
2021
acrylic on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Wilhelm Dodel
Self Portrait with Dog Rose
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden

Uno Falkengren
Self Portrait
ca. 1909
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Angelica Kauffmann
Self Portrait
1784
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Käthe Kollwitz
Self Portrait
ca. 1890
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Paula Modersohn-Becker
Self Portrait with Irises
ca. 1905
oil on canvas
Kunsthalle Bremen

Maximilian Reinitz
Self Portrait
ca. 1930
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Samuel van Hoogstraten
Self Portrait at age 18
1645
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Egon Schiele
Self Portrait
1910
watercolor and gouache on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Helene Schjerfbeck
Self Portrait with Palette
1937
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Charley Toorop
Self Portrait with Palette
1934
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Harriet Sundström
Self Portrait
1913
color woodblock print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Albert Schindler
Self Portrait in the Studio
ca. 1840
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

That same summer, the Thebans demolished the walls of the Thespians, laying Atticism to their charge.  And though they had ever meant to do it, yet now it was easier, because the flower of their youth was slain in the battle against the Athenians.  The temple of Juno in Argos was also burnt down the same summer, by the negligence of Chrysis, the priest, who, having set a burning torch by the garlands, fell asleep, insomuch as all was on fire and flamed out before she knew.  Chrysis, the same night, for fear of the Argives, fled presently to Phlius; and they, according to the law formerly used, chose another priest in her room, called Phaeinis.  Now, when Chrysis fled, was the eighth year of this war ended, and half of the ninth.  Scione, in the very end of this summer, was quite enclosed; and the Athenians, having left a guard there, went home with the rest of their army.   

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

Alto

Anonymous Russian Artist
Astronomical Diagram
1917
lithograph
(poetic text by Vasily Kamensky)
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Walter Dexel
Bridge of Stars
1919
woodcut
Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig

Hans Burgkmair the Younger
Stars falling from the Sky
ca. 1550
drawing
(Bible illustration - Apocalypse)
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Conrad Martin Metz
Centaur Chiron instructing Achilles in Astronomy
1804
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous German Artist
Suns and Moons with Faces
ca. 1575
woodcut
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Hans Wolff Glaser
Miraculous Face in the Moon over Nuremberg, seen by Many
1561
hand-colored woodcut and letterpress
(broadside)
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Hans Schäufelein
Earthquake and Fire from Heaven
1523
woodcut
(Bible illustration - Apocalypse)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Monogrammist IB
Sol
(series, Seven Planets)
1528
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Monogrammist IB
Mercury
(series, Seven Planets)
1528
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Monogrammist IB
Venus
(series, Seven Planets)
1528
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Étienne Delaune
Venus
(series, Seven Planets)
1557
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Anonymous German Artist
Mars
(series, Seven Planets)
ca. 1550-75
woodcut
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Jan Sadeler the Elder after Marten de Vos the Elder
Astronomy
(series, Seven Liberal Arts)
ca. 1590
engraving
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Jacques de Gheyn II
Portrait of astronomer Tycho Brahe
ca. 1595
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Johann Theodor de Bry
Portrait of astrologer Luca Gaurico
ca. 1615
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Anonymous German Artist
Geometer and Astronomer
16th century
woodcut
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

But the contrary faction to the traitors being superior in number, whereby the gates were not opened presently, both they and Eucles the general, who was then there for the Athenians to keep the town, sent unto the other general, Thucydides, the son of Olorus, the writer of this history, who had charge in Thrace, and was now about Thasos (which is an island and a colony of the Parians, distant from Amphipolis about half a day's sail), requiring him to come and relieve them.  When he heard the news, he went thitherwards in all haste with seven galleys, which chanced to be with him at that time.  His purpose principally was to prevent the yielding up of Amphipolis; but if he should fail of that, then to possess himself of Eion before Brasidas' coming.

Brasidas, in the meantime, fearing the aid of the galleys to come from Thasos, and having also been informed that Thucydides possessed mines of gold in the parts of Thrace thereabouts, and was thereby of ability amongst the principal men of the continent, hasted by all means to get Amphipolis before he should arrive, lest otherwise at his coming the commons of Amphipolis, expecting that he would levy confederates both from the sea-side and in Thrace, and relieve them, should thereupon refuse to yield.  And to that end offered them a moderate composition.  . . .  When the commons heard this, their minds were turned; and the rather, because the Athenians amongst them were but few, and the most were a promiscuous multitude; and the kinsmen of those that were taken without flocked together within.  And in respect of their fear, they all thought the proclamation reasonable; the Athenians thought it so because they were willing to go out, as apprehending their own danger to be greater than that of the rest, and withal, not expecting aid in haste; and the rest of the multitude, as being thereby both delivered of the danger, and withal to retain their city with the equal form of government.  Insomuch that they which conspired with Brasidas now openly justified the offer to be reasonable; and seeing the minds of the commons were now turned and that they gave ear no more to the words of the Athenian general, they compounded, and upon the conditions proclaimed received him.  Thus did these men deliver ujp the city.  Thucydides with his galleys arrived in the evening of the same day at Eion.*

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

*This is a very impersonal statement of Thucydides' great failure as a military commander.  As he records later, he was disgraced for his failure to save Amphipolis and was banished from Athens. 

Bijouterie (Genève)

Henri Vever
Belt Buckle
1897
gold (partly enameled)
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Gilbert Albert
Bracelet
ca. 1970
gold, turquoises, pearls
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Roman Empire
Theatrical Scene from Menander
140-80 BC
chalcedony cameo
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Etruscan Culture
Athena Promachos
550-525 BC
sardonyx scarab recut as intaglio
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Anonymous Swiss Jeweler
Bracelet
(concealing painted miniature)
ca. 1830
enameled gold, opals, rubies, emeralds, pearls
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Jean-François Bautte
Brooch
ca. 1825
enameled gold, turquoises, rose topazes
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Jean-François Bautte
Ear Pendants
ca. 1825
enameled gold, turquoises, rose topazes
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Anonymous French Jeweler
Pocket Watch
ca. 1825
gold, paved with graduated pearls
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Suzanne Belperron
Ear Clips
1967
gold, sapphires, emeralds and glass
(made in Paris using vintage gems)
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Louis Pautex-Meilland
Peach Brooch
ca. 1880-1900
enamel on copper
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Anonymous Swiss Jeweler
Brooch
ca. 1846
enameled gold, diamonds, ruby
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Anonymous Swiss Jeweler
Bracelet
ca. 1846
enameled gold, diamonds, ruby
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Marcel Constant Bastard
Finger-Ring as Bee with Watch
ca. 1930
enameled gold, diamonds, sapphires
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

René Lalique
Pendant - Allegory of Autumn
ca. 1898-1900
enameled gold
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Marie-Mathilde Bedot
Necklace
ca. 1900
shell cameo and turquoises set in silver
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Henri Vever
Paper-Folder - Moth
1900
gold, silver, bronze
Musées d'Art et d'Histoir, -Genève

After the herald had said this, the Athenians sent a herald of their own to the Boeotians, denying that either they had done any wrong to the holy place already or would willingly do any hurt to it hereafter; for neither did they at first enter into it to such intent, but to requite the greater injuries which had been done unto them; as for the law which the Grecians have, it is no other but that they which have the dominion of any territory, great or small, have ever the temples also, and besides the accustomed rites, may superinduce what other they can: for also the Boeotians, and most men else, all that having driven out another nation possess their territory, did at first invade the temples of others and make them their own; that therefore, if they could win from them more of their land, they would keep it, and for the part they were now in, they were in it with a good will and would not out of it, as being their own; that for the water, they meddled with it upon necessity; which was not to be ascribed to insolence, but to this, that fighting against the Boeotians that had invaded their territory first, they were forced to use it; for whatsoever is forced by war or danger hath in reason a kind of pardon even with the god himself; for the altars, in cases of involuntary offences, are a refuge, and they are said to violate laws that are evil without constraint, not they that are a little bold upon occasion of distress; that the Boeotians themselves, who require restitution of the holy places for a redemption of the dead, are more irreligious by far than they, who, rather than let their temples go, are content to go without that which were fit for them to receive; and they bade him say plainly that they would not depart out of the Boeotian territory, for that they were not now in it, but in a territory which they had made their own, by the sword; and nevertheless, required truce, according to the ordinance of the country, for the fetching away of the dead.

To this the Boeotians answered that if the dead were in Boeotia, they should quit the ground and take with them whatsoever was theirs; but if the dead were in their own territory, the Athenians themselves knew best what to do.

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