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| Kurt Börmel Hut Ausstellung (hat exhibition) ca. 1909 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Julius Klinger Prinz Hamlets Briefe (novel by Gerhard Knoop) 1909 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Heinz Wetzel Peace Celebration - Cornflower Day - Frankfurt 1911 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Émile-Antoine Bourdelle The Dance 1912 plaster relief Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Franz Francke Printer and Publisher Wilhelm Gerstung ca. 1912 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Yngve Berg Pair of Dancers ca. 1920-30 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Helmer Bäckström Untitled ca. 1923 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Harriet Sundström Ex Libris - Axel Boethius 1923 woodcut Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Alfredo Ravasco Display Case for Hair of Lucrezia Borgia ca. 1926-28 bronze, glass, malachite Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan |
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| Walker Evans Luna Park 1928 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Jean Gauguin Play of the Waves ca. 1930 painted earthenware Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen |
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| Per Krohg The Ambassador 1930 oil on canvas Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø |
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| Sven Erixson Etruscan Painting ca. 1940 gouache on paper Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Kerstin Bernhard Roses at Dior 1947 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Pierre-Albert Begaud Project for a Painted Panel in Louis Quatorze Style ca. 1950 drawing, with added watercolor Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Sten Didrik Bellander Straw and Chiffon 1950 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
The temple of Apollo in Colophon is not far away; it is ten miles' sail from Ephesus. There the messengers from both parties asked the god for a true oracle. They had come with the same question, and the god gave the same oracle in verse to both. It went like this:
Why do you long to learn the end of a malady, and its beginning?
One disease has both in its grasp, and from that the remedy must be accomplished.
But for them I see terrible sufferings and toils that are endless;
Both will flee over the sea pursued by madness;
They will suffer chains at the hands of men who mingle with the waters;
They will suffer chains at the hands of men who mingle with the waters;
And a tomb shall be the burial chamber for both, and fire the destroyer;
And beside the waters of the river Nile, to Holy Isis
The savior you will afterwards offer rich gifts;
But still after their sufferings a better fate is in store.
When this oracle was brought to Ephesus, their fathers were at once at a loss and had no idea at all what the danger was, and they could not understand the god's utterance. They did not know what he meant by their illness, the flight, the chains, the tomb, the river, or the help from the goddess. So they decided after a great deal of deliberation to palliate the oracle as far as they could and marry the pair, since the god implied by his prophecy that this was his will too. They decided this and determined to send them on a trip abroad for a time after their marriage.
– Xenophon of Ephesus, from An Ephesian Tale (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by Graham Anderson (1989)