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| Jean-Antoine Watteau Pleasures of Love ca. 1718-19 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Giorgio de Chirico The Couple 1926 oil on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
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| Léon Bonnat Idyll 1890 oil on canvas Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
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| Anonymous Japanese Artist Ashinaga and Tenaga ca. 1890-1910 ivory netsuke (partly painted) Dayton Art Institute, Ohio |
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| Anonymous German Artist St Verena washing the Hair of a Plague Victim 1525 oil on panel Landesmuseum, Württemberg |
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| Jean-François de Troy Christ and the Samaritan Woman 1741 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Oskar Kokoschka Alma Mahler and Oskar Kokoschka 1913 drawing Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Israel van Meckenem Couple making Music ca. 1495 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Monogrammist GF Putti playing with Lioness and Cub 1537 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Hanne Nielsen Tarzan (4) 1993 drawing KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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| Severin Nilson Untitled (Man with Child aloft) ca. 1890 collodion print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Pål-Nils Nilsson Sicily 1956 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| François Perrier The Cesi Pan and Apollo (now in Museo delle Terme, Rome) 1638 etching Hamburger, Kunsthalle |
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| Pablo Picasso Women with Antique Sculpture 1934 etching Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Roman Empire Cupid and Psyche AD 140-180 marble Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Cristofano Robetta Allegory on the Power of Love ca. 1500 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
[A Messenger is seen approaching from the west, in great haste.]
Chorus of Persian Elders: Well, it seems to me that you will soon know the whole story precisely. The way this man runs clearly identifies him as a Persian, and he will be bringing some definite news, good or bad, for us to hear.
Messenger: O you cities of the whole land of Asia! O land of Persia, repository of great wealth! How all your great prosperity has been destroyed in a single blow, and the flower of the Persians are fallen and departed! [To the Chorus] Ah me, it is terrible to be the first to announce terrible news, but I have no choice but to reveal the whole sad tale. Persians: the whole of the oriental army has been destroyed!
Chorus: Painful, painful, unheard-of
calamitous! Aiai, let your tears flow, Persians,
on hearing this grievous news!
Messenger: I assure you, all those forces are annihilated; and I myself never expected to see the day of my return.
Chorus: Otototoi! It was all in vain
that those many weapons, all mingled together,
went from the land of Asia to the country
of Zeus, the land of Hellas!
– Aeschylus, from Persians (472 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)