Persons Depicted

Famous quotes containing the words persons and/or depicted:

    We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    Et in Arcadia ego.
    [I too am in Arcadia.]
    Anonymous, Anonymous.

    Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)