1624

Showing 6 works across all media from 1624

Sculpture · Baroque

Apollo and Daphne

Gianlorenzo Bernini

1624 · Galleria Borghese, Rome

Bernini was in his mid-twenties when he cut this, catching Daphne at the moment bark closes over her thigh and leaves push from her fingers.

★ 9.1

Sculpture · Baroque

David (Bernini)

Gianlorenzo Bernini

1624 · Galleria Borghese, Rome

Bernini put the viewer where Goliath must be standing, so the sling is being wound up to throw straight past your head.

★ 8.4

Portrait · Dutch Golden Age

Laughing Cavalier

Frans Hals

1624 · Wallace Collection, London

He is neither laughing nor a cavalier. The lace and gold thread on that sleeve were flicked on in a few confident strokes.

★ 7.4

No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624

★ 6.9

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624

★ 3.5

Treatise

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Henry Wotton

1624

★ 1.8