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| Henrik Finne Farmworkers 1932 oil on canvas Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø |
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| Eugène Médard Scouting Party 1875 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne |
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| Ludwig Michalek Village Church Interior ca. 1900 pastel on paper Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Egon Schiele Vienna Secession - 49th Exhibition 1918 lithograph (poster) Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucien Simon Musicians 1925 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Abraham van Werdt Printing Workshop ca. 1660-70 woodcut Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Marianne von Werefkin Ash Wednesday 1921 mixed media on cardboard Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany |
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| Lennart af Petersens Gala Evening at the Opera, Stockholm ca. 1945 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| John Rädecker Russian Ballet 1940 drawing Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Édouard Manet Execution of Maximilian 1867 oil on canvas Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen |
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| Carl Jacob Malmberg Untitled ca. 1875 albumen print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Théodore Géricault Riderless Racers at Rome 1817 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Mabel Dwight Life Class 1931 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret Wedding Party in the Photographer's Studio 1879 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Alexandre Antigna La Fête-Dieu (Feast of Corpus Christi) 1855 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Jules Breton Plantation d'un Calvaire (traditional Breton peasant ceremony) 1858 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
Chorus of Persian Elders:
The city-sacking army of the King
has now passed over to the neighbour land on the other side of the water,
crossing the strait of Helle, daughter of Athamas,
by means of a boat-bridge tied together with flaxen cables,
placing a roadway, fastened with many bolts, as a yoke on the neck of the sea.
The bold ruler of populous Asia
drives his divine flock over the whole world
on both elements, trusting in commanders stout and rugged,
those who govern the land force and those at sea –
a man equal to the gods, from the race begotten of gold.*
With the dark glance
of a deadly serpent in his eyes,
with many hands and many ships,
driving a swift Syrian chariot,
he leads a war-host that slays with the bow
against men renowned for spear-fighting.
No one can be counted on to withstand
this great flood of men
and be a sturdy barrier to ward off
the irresistible waves of the sea:
none dare come near the army
of the Persians and their valiant host.
– Aeschylus, from Persians (472 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*Alluding to the conception of Perseus, when Zeus visited his mother Danaë in the form of a shower of gold; the Persians were believed to be descended from Perses, son of Perseus and Andromeda.