Antonius

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Si enim intellexisset, ori suo imposuisset manum.

Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
The man who passes the threshold of some place must firstly look to his left and his right, and remember the door from before and behind him, because in advance one does not know where his enemies lie.
On the right, a piper is portraited of a landknecht regiment, with his band-players beside him. On the left is walking a drummer with a sword dangling against his leg, facing inward, where a third member of the regiment is waving his colours high, with great splendor but obscured.
Three worlds. The deep below, the middle-earth of the leaves and the sky above.
The blind leading the blind
A woman on the rocks of a sea coast sits in contemplation, looking over the wavy sea. - 'What dainty youth, bedewed with liquid perfumes, caresses you, Pyrrha, beneath the pleasant grot, amid a profusion of roses? For whom do you bind your golden hair, plain in your neatness? Alas! how often shall he deplore your perfidy, and the altered gods; and through inexperience be amazed at the seas, rough with blackening storms who now credulous enjoys you all precious, and, ignorant of the faithless gale, hopes you will be always disengaged, always amiable! Wretched are those, to whom thou untried seemest fair? The sacred wall [of Neptune's temple] demonstrates, by a votive tablet, that I have consecrated my dropping garments to the powerful god of the sea.' -Horace
There! Among the clouds of a high mountain, in the clear, clean, exalted air, sits an artist on a distant rock, who is shown the brilliant clouds, the unusual beauty, perfect excellence, by the poet Dante in his red clothes and his scarlet hat. A bird flies there, beneath them; a man and his mule are waiting on the road behind the two, looking towards the road ahead.
In London, there grows a tree; and around it is the city, a street, an orchard and its entrance-way. And behind it there stands a church rising in the mists of the morning; and the sun rises above the church still, orange of colour and still dim, beholding the tree and bestowing the air a blue hue.
Jezus of Nazareth weeps for Lazarus, as is written in John 11:35. He grieves for the doubt in men and in himself.
A girl plays the cello to a woman. We see her from the back and see the face of her audience, who sits in silence and weeps.
Betwist a split open sea, in between the faces of mountains, three people look upon the horizon. A woman sits most on the left hand side against a tree and in a red dress. On her right there are two men, one on hands and knees, the other leaning against a tree. Issued forth on the calm sea glass are two ships; which way they go is unclear.
A portrait of a Rakan, a Buddha, an enlightened man whom achieved Nirvana and complete understanding of existence.
A woman, in the centre of the painting, is listening to young man, whom is reciting a letter of some sort. They're sitting in the corner of a sober living room, beside the window and the hearth. Above this hearth hangs a painting of a woman and a man standing over a crib. The baby is most likely Jesus; the man and wife Maria and Joseph.
Europa, princess of Phoenicia, taken on a bull - a hue of Zeus, god of thunder and sky. The bull is swimming through a gentle sea, with a dolfin at his left side and a whale in the background. A gift of Europa, a wreath, hangs about his neck.
A landscape of Amsterdam's windmill on the canal bed.
Dante and Vergillius, wandering through the Inferno
In Dutch, it reads as follows: MEPHISTOPHELES: Thou art in the end - just what thou art. Heap wigs on wigs by millions on thy head, And upon ells-high buskins tread, Thou art still, just what thou art.
On the seas of madness floats a severed head, possibly the head of the artist. His mouth is open for screaming and his forehead is open as a door; out of it birds fly. Inside a painter paints three peasants and on top two swans lay their eggs. Around the head daimons who take the form of animals torment and go to war with eachother and among all this, against a dead tree Saint Antony sits with a woman beside him, trying to tempt his sexual desires.
Exodus 9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and the LORD caused to hail upon the land of Egypt.
A young boy blowing on an ember, to light a small candle he is holding with is right hand.
Poetry, possibly of his muse, his wife or compagnion Lucrezia Paolini. With Philosophy, they form the happiness and only worthy things on this middle-earth.
Salvator Rosa with 'Philosophy', a self-portrait. On the sign is written: Be silent, unless your speech is better than silence.
A snow-covered landscape shone by red light; a calm mere lies prominently surrounded by trees of different kinds. Conifers grow in a long line further and further away; broad-leaved trees, bare and bend, form a lane, which on its left hides a little house.
A man in plated armour, seemingly standing or sitting, with his head thrown back, is either dying or experiencing ecstacy of another kind. Above him, an angel, a spirit just of the head of a woman, approches him with the eyes closed, soothing him and giving light.
Francisco Goya, Owls surround and many Bats attack a sleeping man, whom, in his folded arms is resting his head in a deep sleep. On his desk is written: "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters". A cat rests on the ground, who seems to look at us; on it's face is the expression of warning.
Caesar van Everdingen; a woman in red, with her hand folded in prayer; a worried expression is on her face.
Below an evening sky, yellow and red by the light of the drowning sun, there is a little chapel standing on a hill. A woman in red there prays; behind her an ox, a woman, man stand, with a child in her arms. Before them, a ship sails towards the sun.
Barge at Sea Shore; a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky. At the beach and in the morning mist, in clear, golden water, a barge serenely floats. Three people load their luggage for a trip we do not know whitherto. A mountain looms in the background, some boats fload afar.
Ivan Aivazovsky
The Exploding Ship; Ivan Ayvazovsky
A candle burning; fire dancing on the wax.
Joseph Wright of Derby; A lesson about the planetarium
A scene from The Divina Commedia by Gustave Doré. The Punished are clothed in a lead monk's cloak for their sin of hypocrisy.
The Philosopher, weaping for the state of the world.
A portrait of a fairly dressed woman, facing her right and sitting casually, by Artemisia Gentileschi; painted in 1620.