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The Master from Fallout 1

Muscles of the Back is a painting by Jacques Fabien Gautier d Agoty, (French, 1710–1781).

"Muscles of the Back," Plate 14 from Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size), by Joseph Guichard Duverney (Paris: Gautier, 1746). Color mezzotint. Sheet: 76 × 53 cm.

Sorrowful Heraclitus 1746 Oil on canvas, 92 x 74 cm Private collection

COYPEL, Charles-Antoine

French painter (b. 1694, Paris, d. 1752, Paris)

This painting and its companion piece, Cheerful Democritus, depict two men with diametrically opposed views of the world. The subjects of the paintings are the Greek philosophers Democritus of Abdera and Heraclitus of Ephesus. Their views of life could not have been more different: Democritus never stopped laughing at the follies of humankind while Heraclitus wept continuously over the condition of the world. There are numerous representations of them in Greek and Roman art and literature, but the theme fell out of favour in post-classical art and was not revived until the late 15th century. By about 1600 Democritus and Heraclitus once again became a popular subject, particularly in the Netherlands, and the philosophers are depicted either in pairs or a single composition.

Tall-Case Clock, maker Peter Stretch, American, 1735-46

Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758)

Pierre Hubert Subleyras French

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