Thomas Bernhard, Café Bräunerhof ,1988, por Sepp Dreissinger

Lars Bo 1924-1999

Chants royaux du Puy Notre-Dame d'Amiens, c. 1518

lam yabqa fi qaws sabri minza’: my patience is at an end (lit.: there is no arrow left for the bow of my patience)

Mummy portraits of Egyptians from the Roman period, 1st-2nd centuries AD

(Photo credit: Behrouz Mehri/AFP)

Hildegard von Bingen Book of Divine Works, Part 3 Vision One: The City of God and the Mirror of the Angels 1230

Ivan Leonidovich Lubennikov (Bielorussian, b.1951) Guardian angel, 2001 Oil on canvas

Humberto Mayol, Untitled, 1991

Nils Dardel - Crime of Passion (1921)

2026. Red ink on paper. 11 3/4" x 9". Courtesy

Six of the frowzy-headed Fishers in a pose, ca. 1901

Hanne Darboven's studio, Hamburg.

choreography instructions for  Das Triadische Ballet (The Triadic Ballet), 1922

The figure grips the column framing him and literally bites into it, his face twisted into a grimace, while a rosary on his belt hints at the message: a warning against excessive, performative piety and hypocrisy, looking devout in public, but acting differently at home.