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| Georg Fredrik von Gegerfelt Half-Length Study of Model ca. 1870 drawing Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Gustav Klimt Académie 1883 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Henri Royer Nymph 1893 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy |
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| Rembrandt van Rijn Model (studio assistant) posed as seated Christ ca. 1645 drawing Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
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| Franz Krüger Académie with Two Figures ca. 1857 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Anton Kolig Standing Model ca. 1910 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Félix Vallotton Model on Red Chair 1897 oil on cardboard Musée de Grenoble |
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| Carl Friedrich Lessing Half-Length Study of Model posed with Mitre and Staff 1828 drawing Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| C.A. Lorentzen Académie ca. 1770-80 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Arthur Guéniot Study of Model ca. 1895-1900 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Elemír Halász-Hradil Half-Length Study of Model 1903 oil on canvas Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava |
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| Albert Edelfelt Study of Model ca. 1874-75 oil on panel Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| Heinrich Dittmers Académie ca. 1650 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Anonymous German Artist Académie ca. 1750 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Chris van der Windt Académie 1897 drawing Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Henri Matisse Standing Model (at Matisse's art academy in Paris) ca. 1912 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Characters of the Play
Scene
Susa. Twelve chairs are set out for a meeting of the royal council. A mound (ignored until attention is drawn to it) represents the tomb of Darius. One side-passage is imagined as leading to the city and palace, the other towards the west and Greece.
Enter Chorus from the direction of the city
Chorus:
Of the Persians, who have departed
for the land of Greece, we are called the Trusted,
the guardians of the wealthy palace rich in gold,
whom our lord himself, King Xerxes,
son of Darius, chose by seniority
to supervise the country.
But by now the spirit within me,
all too ready to foresee evil, is troubled
about the return of the King
and of his vast army of men;
for all the strength of the Asiatic race
has departed, and in every house
the woman left behind howls for her young husband;
and no messenger, no horseman,
has come to the Persian capital.
They left the walls of Susa and Agbatana
and the ancient ramparts of Cissia
and went, some on horseback,
some on board ship, and the marching infantry
providing the fighting masses.
– Aeschylus, from Persians (472 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)