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| Rufino Tamayo Profile of a Man 1964 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Per Krohg Woman in Grey with Gold 1919 oil on canvas Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø |
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| Anonymous French Artist Shelves with Art Supplies 19th century oil on canvas Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai |
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| Anonymous American Artist Western Insurance Co. of Buffalo ca. 1866-71 chromolithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Jean-François Bony Fruit and Flowers 1815 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Armand Cambon Galel ca. 1864 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| William Christenberry Grave with Egg-Carton Cross Hale County 1975 C-print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Gustaf Wernersson Cronquist Untitled (Peaches) ca. 1920 autochrome Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Paul-Elie Gernez Nu au Coquillage 1934 pastel on paper Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| Auguste Herbin Still Life with Coffee-Grinder ca. 1912-13 watercolor on paper Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Berlin Street Scene ca. 1914 drawing (colored chalks) Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Maximilien Luce Bread Line ca. 1918 oil on panel Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Marc Lafargue Small Library ca. 1920-25 oil on cardboard Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Master of Grossgmain Death of the Virgin ca. 1480 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Albert Marquet Apples on a Plate ca. 1910 oil on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
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| Stephan Bundi Tartuffe 2008 screenprint (poster) Museum Folkwang, Essen |
Chorus:
We shall soon know about the beacon-watches and fire-relays of the traveling light-signals, whether they are indeed telling the truth or whether the coming of this joyful light has beguiled our minds like a dream. I see, coming here from the seashore, a herald, his head shaded with a wreath of olive; and the thirsty dust, the sister and neighbour of mud, testifies to me that he will not signal voicelessly with fire-smoke, kindling a flame with mountain timber, but will say something that will either more definitely proclaim rejoicing for us, or – but I abhor speaking of the opposite alternative: may this be a happy addition to the apparently happy news already come – and whoever expresses his prayer for this city differently, may he himself reap the fruit of his mind's perversity!
Enter Herald. He falls down and kisses the ground.
Hail, soil of my fathers, land of Argos! On this day, after nearly ten years, I have come back to you, achieving one of my hopes, after the shipwreck of so many: for I never thought that I would die in this Argive land and be able to share my beloved family tomb. Now greeting to my land, [raising his hands to sun and sky] greeting to the light of the sun and to Zeus supreme over the land, to the Pythian lord – and please no longer shoot the shafts of your bow at us; you showed us quite enough hostility by the Scamander; but now, lord Apollo, become a saviour and a healer. And I address all the Assembled Gods, and especially the protector of my own office, Hermes, the Herald whom heralds love and revere, and the heroes who sent us forth, praying that they may receive back with favour the army, or what the war has spared of it.
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)