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| Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant Pope Urban II ca. 1900 oil on canvas (study for painting Entry of Urban II into Toulouse) Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Piet Mondrian Willow Grove - Impression of Light and Shadow ca. 1905 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Odilon Redon St George and the Dragon 1907 oil on panel Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
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| Maurice de Vlaminck Le Pont de Chatou 1908 oil on canvas Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
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| Emil Nolde Dancing Children 1909 oil on canvas Kunsthalle zu Kiel |
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| Natalia Goncharova Flower 1910 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Christian Rohlfs In the Dunes 1910 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| Marianne von Werefkin Into the Night 1910 tempera on paper Lenbachhaus Munich |
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| Alexei von Jawlensky Still Life with Begonia 1911 oil on cardboard Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Circus Scene 1911 oil on canvas (painted on reverse of stretched canvas) Brücke Museum, Berlin |
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| Otto Müller Three Nudes in the Forest 1911 oil on canvas Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
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| Heinrich Nauen Landscape with Woodpile 1911 oil on canvas Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| Egon Schiele Portrait of artist Anton Peschka 1911 gouache on paper Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Umberto Boccioni Still Life with Watermelon 1912 oil on canvas Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
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| Adriaan Korteweg Departure 1914 oil on canvas Lenbachhaus Munich |
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| Helmuth Macke Two Riders 1914 oil on cardboard Museum Penzberg, Germany |
Chorus of Theban Maidens:
I shudder at that destroyer of families,
that goddess unlike the gods,
that all-too-true prophet of evil,
the Fury of the father's curse,
that it has fulfilled the angry imprecations
of Oedipus' warped mind:
this strife that will destroy his children is hastening it on.
And a foreigner is dividing their inheritances,
a Chalybian emigrant from Scythia,*
a harsh distributor of property,
cruel-hearted Iron,
allotting them land to dwell on,
as much as is given to the dead to possess,**
with no share of the broad plains.
And when they die in kindred slaughter,
killed by one another, and the dust of earth
drinks up their dark red-clotted blood,
who can provide purification,
who can release them? O,
new troubles for the house
mingling with its old woes!
– Aeschylus, from Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*the Chalybians were famous as iron-workers
**i.e. just enough for a grave