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| Frédéric Bazille Les Lauriers Roses 1867 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Baldovino Bertè Borgo della Morte, Parma 1872 oil on panel Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Gustave Caillebotte Path in the Garden 1886 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Adolf Dietrich Garden in Summer 1925 tempera on paper Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Sailor parting from his Beloved 1840 oil on canvas Ribe Kunstmuseum, Denmark |
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| Anselm Feuerbach Rocky Landscape 1855 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Erik Hoppe Wilders Plads, Copenhagen ca. 1937 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Ekke Abel Kleima Dune Landscape on Texel 1939 oil on canvas Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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| Henri Loubat La famille Loubat à Saint-Jean-de-Luz ca. 1904 oil on board Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gaillac |
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| Albert Marquet In the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris 1902 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Firmin Salabert Conversation dans une Allée près du Lac ca. 1860 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gaillac |
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| P.C. Skovgaard View of the Sea from Møns Klint 1850 oil on canvas Skovgaard Museet, Viborg, Denmark |
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| Vincent van Gogh Lane near Arles 1888 oil on canvas Pomeranian State Museum, Greifswald |
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| Carl Moll Prater Scene ca. 1925 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Claude Monet Double Herbaceous Borders under Trees at Giverny 1902 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Antoine-Pierre Mongin Corner of a Park ca. 1795 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Morgan Library, New York |
Clytemnestra: Today the Achaeans are in possession of Troy. I imagine that the city is marked by shouts and cries that do not blend well. If you pour vinegar and olive oil into the same vessel, they'll keep apart and you'll call them very unfriendly; so too one can hear separately the voices of the conquered and the conquerors – can hear their distinct fortunes. On one side, they have prostrated themselves to embrace the bodies of husbands and brothers, and children those of their aged progenitors, and from throats that are no longer free they cry out their laments for the death of their dearest. On the other, weary nocturnal patrolling after the battle has led to their mustering, famished, at breakfasts consisting of what the city has available, with no criteria for taking turns, but just as each individual draws fortune's lot. They are now living in captured Trojan dwellings, freed at last from the frosts and dews of the open air, and they will sleep the whole night without needing guards, like happy men. If they act reverently towards the protecting gods of the city and land they have captured, there is no risk, you may be sure, that after capturing it they may become victims in their turn. Only let no desire first fall on the army to plunder what they should not, overcome by the prospect of gain; for they have still to return safely home, turning the bend and coming back for the second leg of the double run. If the army should return without having offended the gods, the pain of the dead would be appeasable, if no unexpected stroke of evil fate occurs. This, I tell you, is what you have heard from me, a woman; but may the good prevail, unequivocally, for all to see! I choose to enjoy that, in preference to many other blessings.
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)