1608

Showing 4 works across all media from 1608

Religious painting · Baroque

Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Caravaggio

1608 · Co-Cathedral of St. John, Valletta

The only canvas Caravaggio ever signed, and he signed it in the blood running from the saint's throat, for the knights of Malta.

★ 8.4

Landscape · Dutch Golden Age

Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters

Hendrick Avercamp

1608 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hundreds of tiny figures skating, sledging and falling over on one frozen river. Avercamp was deaf and mute and known as the mute of Kampen.

★ 6.1

Play · Comedy (play)

Time’s the king of men. He’s both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

Pericles, Prince of Tyre · 1608

★ 5.5

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

George Chapman

The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron · 1608

★ 3.5