1717 · Skopia

Showing 4 works across all media from 1717

The Embarkation for Cythera

Landscape · Rococo

The Embarkation for Cythera

Jean Antoine Watteau

1717 · Louvre, Paris

Couples linger on the shore of Venus's island at dusk, unwilling to board. Watteau gave it to the Academy, which invented a genre to fit it.

★ 8.3

Autobiography and memoir

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

1717

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir

There is nothing in the world which does not have its decisive moment, and the masterpiece of good management is to recognize and grasp this moment.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

1717

★ 6.9

Sermon · Religious literature

Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written, or spoken laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them.

Benjamin Hoadly

1717

★ 4.2