I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. People seldom read a book which is given to them. And few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even six pence without an intention to read it.
— Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson.
I hope that my achievements in life shall be these ... that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, that I will have given help to those who were in need and that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.
Hendrik Voogd - Italian landscape with Umbrella Pines
Woman with green shawl
Acquired for the State Hermitage between 1766 and 1768; in the Pushkin Museum since 1930
Oil on canvas
Summer pleasure
Portrait of a young woman, drawing. Thought to be a portrait of the artist herself
The Kiss
In a Roman Osteria
Karnac: "Dromos or first court of the temple." colored lithograph of Karnak
Leitura by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior 1892
Aurora Borealis
19th century painting of Sphinx of Giza, partly under sand, with two pyramids in the background
The Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)
Stitching the Standard
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
The Lute Player
The Menagerie
The Fog Warning / Halibut Fishing
The Accolade
Njommelsaska i Lappland by Carl Svantje Hallbeck
Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville
Hermia and Lysander. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Destruction from The Course of Empire
In a pine wood. Study
Saudade (Longing), by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, oil on carvas, 1899. Displayed in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
Isle of Graia Gulf of Akabah Arabia Petraea, depicting the Pharaoh's Island in the northern Gulf of Aqaba off the shore of Egypt's eastern Sinai Peninsula
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