1618

Showing 6 works across all media from 1618

Mythological painting · Baroque

Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus

Peter Paul Rubens

1618 · Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Two horsemen haul two women up onto rearing horses, and the whole canvas spins into one great X of limbs and hooves.

★ 7.4

Genre painting · Baroque

Old Woman Frying Eggs

Diego Velazquez

1618 · National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Eggs are visibly cooking in the pan as you watch. Velázquez painted this in Seville when he was barely nineteen years old.

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature

Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Sir Walter Raleigh

1618

★ 3.6

Poem

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Sir Walter Raleigh

1618

★ 3.6

Poem

Even such is time that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!

Sir Walter Raleigh

1618

★ 3.5

Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Sir Walter Raleigh

1618

★ 1.0