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Anonymous Photographer Sarah Bernhardt ca. 1900 albumen silver print (cigarette card) Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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Anonymous German Artist Portrait of a Man with a Rosary ca. 1505-1510 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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Charley Toorop Village Woman (Mother Akerboom) 1922-23 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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Wilhelm Trübner Boy with a Ruff 1871 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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Julia Margaret Cameron The Mountain Nymph - Sweet Liberty 1866 albumen silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Maria Callani Portrait of the artist's father, Gaetano Callani 1802 oil on panel Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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Anonymous Photographer Two Girls ca. 1865 albumen silver print (carte-de-visite) Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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Anonymous Photographer Portrait of a Girl ca. 1855 hand-colored daguerreotype Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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Oscar Björck Portrait of Karl Nordström 1884 oil on canvas Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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Victor Arimondi Grace Jones, Paris 1974 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Berit Arnestad Threats in the Night 1979 woodcut Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Yngve Baum Arne Augustsson, sheet-metal worker (from series, Varvsarbetare) ca. 1973 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Anonymous French Artist Portrait of a Man 1567 oil on panel Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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Anonymous British Artist Portait of Elizabeth I ca. 1600 oil on panel Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford |
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Édouard Boubat Self Portrait with Lella ca. 1950-60 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Leo Holub Coyote, Yosemite 1971 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Cassandra: Well, now my prophecies will no longer be looking through a veil like a newly-wedded bride; rather you may expect that it will sweep down from the sunrise like a bright fresh wind, so that there will break upon the beach, so to speak, a wave of sorrow far greater than this one. No longer will I give you information through riddles. I want you to testify that I am following close on the scent of evils perpetrated in former times. There is a group of singers that never leaves this house. They sing in unison, but not pleasantly, for their words speak of evil. Moreover, this revel-band drinks human blood, thus emboldening itself, and then remains in the house, hard to send away – the band of the house's kindred Furies. Besetting the chambers of the house, they sing a song of the ruinous folly that first began it all, and one after another they show their abhorrence of the brother's bed that worked harm to him who defiled it. Or am I a lying prophet, a door-knocker, a worthless blabberer? Testify, on your oath, that you have not heard tell of, and do not know about, these old crimes of this house.
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)