1. NEO-CLASSICISM ROMANTICISM REALISM

2. The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, Jacques-Louis David, 1789

3. Moonrise Over the Sea, Caspar David Friedrich, 1821

4. The Gleaners, Jean-Francois Millet, 1857

11. Let Power or Knowledge, Gold or Glory, please,
Or (oft more strong than all) the love of ease;
Through life it is followed, even at life’s expense;
The merchant’s toil, the sage’s indolence,
The monk’s humility, the hero’s pride,
All, all alike, find Reason on their side.

12. Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you’ll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
Books! ‘tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There’s more of wisdom in it.

13. And hark! How blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless—
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.

14. The four colliers had spread themselves out, one above the other, to cover the whole coal-face. Each one occupied about four meters of the seam, and there were hooked planks between them to catch the coal as it fell. The seam was so thin, hardly more than fifty centimeters through at this point that they were flattened between roof and wall, dragging themselves along by their knees and elbows, unable to turn without grazing their shoulders. In order to get at the coal, they had to lie on one side with twisted neck, arms above their heads, and wield their short-handled picks slantways.

15. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage—Italy, Joseph M.W. Turner, 1832

16. The Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David, 1787

17. The March of the Weavers, Kathe Kollowitz’s, 1897

18. The Apotheosis of Homer, Jan Auguste-dominique Ingres, 1827

19. Liberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix, 1830

20. Women Ironing, Edgar Degas, ca.1884-1886

21. An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope, 1733
Let Power or Knowledge, Gold or Glory, please,
Or (oft more strong than all) the love of ease;
Through life it is followed, even at life’s expense;
The merchant’s toil, the sage’s indolence,
The monk’s humility, the hero’s pride,
All, all alike, find Reason on their side.

22. From The Tables Turned, William Wordsworth, 1798
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you’ll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
Books! ‘tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There’s more of wisdom in it.

23. And hark! How blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless—
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.

24. Germinal by Emile Zola
The four colliers had spread themselves out, one above the other, to cover the whole coal-face. Each one occupied about four meters of the seam, and there were hooked planks between them to catch the coal as it fell. The seam was so thin, hardly more than fifty centimeters through at this point that they were flattened between roof and wall, dragging themselves along by their knees and elbows, unable to turn without grazing their shoulders. In order to get at the coal, they had to lie on one side with twisted neck, arms above their heads, and wield their short-handled picks slantways.