1682 · Skopia

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Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia

Mythological painting · Classicism

Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia

1682 · Ashmolean, Oxford, England

Ascanius draws his bow on a tame stag, the shot that starts a war in the Aeneid, and Claude paints it as a calm golden evening.

★ 5.7

Political literature

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws.

Frame of Government · 1682

★ 3.6

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Sir Thomas Browne

1682

★ 3.5

Religious literature

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

Sir Thomas Browne

1682

★ 1.9

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

1682

★ 1.9

There's an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There's Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown, Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down.

1682

★ 1.8