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| Rosalyn Drexler Lovers 1963 acrylic paint and collage on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Édouard Vuillard On the Sofa ca. 1890-93 oil on cardboard Pushkin Museum, Moscow |
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| attributed to Hans von Aachen The Deposition ca. 1605 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Mariotto Albertinelli Incident from Genesis ca. 1513 oil on panel National Gallery, Athens |
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| Arthur Devis Portrait of Richard Moreton, Esq. with niece and nephew, Susanna and John Weyland 1757 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Jan Brueghel the Elder (landscape) and Hendrick de Clerck (figures) Diana and Actaeon ca. 1610 oil on panel Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Landscape with Courtly Figures ca. 1700-1720 oil on copper Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
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| Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (seascape) and Pierre-Antoine de Machy (architecture) Scene of Shipwreck 1771 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ivan Aivazovsky Blowing-Up of the Arkadi Monastery on Crete 1867 oil on canvas National Gallery, Athens |
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| Claude Monet Low Tide at Pourville near Dieppe 1882 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Hendrik Goudt after Adam Elsheimer Tobias and the Angel ca. 1613 drawing (after now-lost Elsheimer painting and preparatory to engraving) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jacob van der Ulft Roman Ruins with Herdsman ca. 1670 drawing National Museum, Athens |
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| Francesco Trevisani Penitent Magdalen ca. 1710 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ernesto Parmeggiani Orpheus 1902 oil on canvas Museo Civico di Modena |
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| Jan van Goyen The Blasted Oak, or, The Fortune-Teller 1638 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| René Magritte The Secret Life 1928 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
I call upon Persephone, queen of the dead,
And upon Hades, king of night, I call;
Chain all the Furies up that he may tread
The perilous pathways to the Stygian hall
And rest among his mighty peers at last,
For the entanglements of God are past.
Nor may the hundred-headed dog give tongue
And rest among his mighty peers at last,
For the entanglements of God are past.
Nor may the hundred-headed dog give tongue
Until the daughter of Earth and Tartarus
That even bloodless shades call Death has sung
The travel-broken shade of Oedipus
Through triumph of completed destiny
Into eternal sleep, if such there be.
That even bloodless shades call Death has sung
The travel-broken shade of Oedipus
Through triumph of completed destiny
Into eternal sleep, if such there be.
– Sophocles, chorus from Oedipus at Colonus (405 BC), translated by W.B. Yeats (1934)