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Christer Strömholm
Barcelona
1959
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Adolph Tidemand
Farmer from Vossevangen
1855
oil on paper
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Bjørn Ransve
Study of Model
1976
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Johann Baptist Reiter
Portrait of a Woman
1840
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Giacomo Ceruti (il Pitocchetto)
Portrait of a Girl with a Fan
ca. 1740
oil on canvas
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Gustaf Wernersson Cronquist
Untitled (Portrait)
ca. 1925
autochrome
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Richard Roland Holst
Portrait Study of Young Woman
1916
drawing
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Gösta Hübinette
The Typewriter Girl
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Marzella
1909-10
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine
Portrait of Pauline-Laurette Le Couteulx du Molay
1796
(died 1802 in childbirth)
hand-colored engraving
Château de Malmaison

Ottavio Leoni
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1610
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jan Kupecký
Self Portrait
ca. 1709
oil on paper, mounted on canvas (sketch)
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Claude-Marie Dubufe
Self Portrait
ca. 1818
oil on canvas
private collection

Sébastien Cornu
Self Portrait
1832
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon

Jan van Beers
Emperor Charles V as a Child
1879
oil on canvas (sketch)
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Ferdinand Matthias Zerlacher
Portrait of Marie von Gerl
1911
oil on board
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Chorus:

All mortals have by nature an insatiable appetite

for success; and no one bans it

and keeps it away from houses at which fingers are pointed,

saying "Don't come in here any more!"

So to this man it was granted by the Blessed Ones

to capture the city of Priam,

and he comes home honoured by the gods;

but now, if he pays for the blood shed by his forefathers

and by dying causes the dead

to exact further deaths as a penalty,

what mortal, hearing this, can boast

that he was born to a destiny free from harm?

A sudden cry from within cuts across the Chorus's last words.

Agamemnon [within]:  Ah me, I am struck down, a deep and deadly blow!

Chorus:  Hush!  Who's that screaming about being struck and mortally wounded?

Agamemnon [within]:  Ah me again, struck a second time!

Chorus:  To judge by the king's cries, I think the deed has been done.  Let us deliberate and see if there might be any safe plan to follow. 

Each member of the Chorus now gives his individual opinion. 

– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)