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| Irving Penn Sculptor's Model 1950 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Jean Heiberg Italian Model 1908 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Maj Bring Model at the Matisse School, Paris ca. 1910 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Edvard Munch Parisian Model 1896 oil on board KODE (Art Museums Complex), Bergen, Norway |
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| Bjarne Ness Study of Standing Model 1926 drawing Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Felix Vallotton Model against Violet 1926 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Bremen |
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| André Lhote Three Model Studies ca. 1925 oil on paper Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Jens Juncker-Jensen Study of Model ca. 1950 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Laura Gilpin Model in Fortuny Gown, Denver, Colorado ca. 1925 platinum print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Hjalmar Grahn Seated Model ca. 1930 etching Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Thomas Eakins Swimming (study for painting, with art students as models) 1884 albumen print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Nikolai Astrup Study of Model ca. 1899-1902 oil on canvas KODE (Art Museums Complex), Bergen |
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| Vilma Parlaghy Study of Seated Model 1889 oil on canvas Nordsee Museum, Husum, Germany |
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| Hermann Prell Study of Model 1877 oil on board Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Philip Pearlstein Model on Cast-Iron Bed 1975 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Julius Paulsen Models Waiting 1886 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
Chorus:
This sword* pierces
sharp and penetrating, right to the lungs,
because Justice, most wrongfully,
is trampled underfoot to the ground,
when someone, against all right, has utterly
flouted the majesty of Zeus.
But the foundations of Justice are firmly set,
and the swordsmith Destiny is preparing the weapon;
and a child is being imported into the house,
to pay at last for the stain
of older deeds of blood, by the far-famed,
deep-thinking Fury.
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*The figurative "sword" is the pain of beholding the murderers seemingly triumphant.