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| Prince Rupert, Count Palatine after Pietro della Vecchia Lansquenet 1658 mezzotint Yale Center for British Art |
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| Salvator Rosa Standing Soldier ca. 1657-58 etching and drypoint Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Albert Gerrits Swart Portrait of Johanna Maria Bauwine de Blau de Sitter 1833 oil on panel Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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| Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Armand Roulin 1888 oil on canvas Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Louis-Émile Villa Woman in Sixteenth-Century Costume ca. 1880 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Andy Warhol Jackie 1964 screenprint Musée de Grenoble |
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| Anette Wiese Study of Eighteenth-Century Marble Bust 1894 drawing Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Ernst Josephson Portrait of Jeanette Rubenson 1883 oil on panel Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Aristide Maillol Young Woman in Profile 1896 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Julie de Graag Portrait of a Boy 1914 drawing Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1490 tempera on panel Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Franz Joseph Degle Maria Josepha Victoria Magdalena von Obwexer 1777 oil on canvas Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
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| Alois von Anreiter Miniature Portrait of Lady Rawlinson ca. 1830 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Francesco Bonsignori Study of a Young Man ca. 1500-1505 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Kore 540 BC marble (fragment of life-size statue) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Ivan Galuzin and Oleg Samoilov 7-10-43 Photo-reconstruction 2015 C-print Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø |
Enter Agamemnon and Cassandra in a carriage, accompanied by attendants.
Chorus:
Come now, my king, sacker of Troy,
offspring of Atreus,
offspring of Atreus,
how shall I address you, how shall I do you reverence,
neither overshooting nor falling short
of the target of pleasure?
Many men who have transgressed justice
honour semblance above reality:
everyone is ready to groan together
with one who has suffered misfortune, though no pang of grief
actually penetrates the groaner's heart,
and likewise they put on an appearance of sharing joy,
forcing their unsmiling faces into a grin,
to welcome one who has gained success.
But whoever is a good judge of his flock
will certainly not be fooled by a man's eyes
whose gaze, pretending to come from a loyal disposition,
is fawning on him with watery affection.
To me, at that time, when you were leading forth an expedition
on account of Helen – I will not conceal this from you –
you seemed painted in very ugly colours
and like one whose mind was steering a bad course,
trying to win back a willingly wanton woman
by taking men to their deaths:
but now, from the depths of my heart and with affection,
I am friendly to those who have made a good end of their labours.
In time you will know by inquiry
which of the citizens has acted honestly
when staying at home in the city, and which inappropriately.
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)