1602

Showing 17 works across all media from 1602

Religious painting · Baroque

The Incredulity of St. Thomas

Caravaggio

1602 · Sanssouci, Potsdam

Thomas pushes his finger into the wound and two apostles lean in to watch, brows knotted, close enough to crowd the frame.

★ 7.6

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 6.4

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

But be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

How apt the poor are to be proud!

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will · 1602

★ 5.5

Religious painting · Baroque

The Deposition

Peter Paul Rubens

1602 · Galleria Borghese, Rome

Rubens worked this out in Rome while studying Caravaggio, a rehearsal for the great Descent he would paint back home in Antwerp.

★ 4.8

Play · Comedy (play)

Ask me no reason why I love you, for though Love use Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counselor.

William Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor · 1602

★ 3.9

Play · Comedy (play)

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content.

William Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor · 1602

★ 3.8

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. For women are as roses, whose fair flower, Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will · 1602

★ 3.8

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

What is love? ’Tis not hereafter. Present mirth hath present laughter. What’s to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. Youth’s a stuff will not endure.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will · 1602

★ 3.8

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will · 1602

★ 3.8

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will · 1602

★ 2.9

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

However we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women’s are.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 2.2

Play · Comedy (play)

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor · 1602

★ 2.1

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 2.0

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 1.1

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

Why, this is very midsummer madness!

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 1.1