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| Anna Ancher Interior with the artist's mother reading 1910 oil on canvas Skagens Museum, Denmark |
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| Pierre Bonnard Before the window in Grand-Lemps 1923 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Carl Gustav Carus Balcony in Naples ca. 1829-30 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Franz Ludwig Catel Portrait of Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Naples 1824 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Wilhelm Gail Foscari Loggia in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice 1834 oil on canvas Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam |
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| Wilhelm von Gegerfelt Farm at Balingsta 1891 oil on panel Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Johann Erdmann Hummel Granite Basin in the Lustgarten, Berlin 1831 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Peder Severin Krøyer Self Portrait 1888 oil on canvas Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Gotthardt Kuehl Garden Room ca. 1895-1900 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Louis Lozowick Checkerboard under the El 1926 lithograph Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts |
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| Abraham van Strij The Drawing Lesson ca. 1800 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands |
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| Henry van de Velde Woman reading in the sun (Jeanne Biart) 1892 pastel on paper Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Frederik Vermehren Courtyard, Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen 1845 oil on canvas Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen |
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| Édouard Vuillard Boulevard des Batignolles ca. 1910 oil on cardboard Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Camille Pissarro Corner of the Garden, Éragny 1897 oil on canvas Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen |
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| Henri Matisse Street in Arcueil ca. 1903-1904 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Chorus:
There is much, at any rate, that strikes deep into the soul:
one knows the men one sent off,
but instead of human beings
urns and ashes arrive back
at each man's home.
Ares, the moneychanger of bodies,
holding his scales in the battle of spears,
sends back from Ilium to their dear ones
heavy dust that has been through the fire,
to be sadly wept over,
filling easily-stowed urns
with ash given in exchange for men.
And they lament, and praise this man
as one expert in battle,
that man as having fallen nobly amid the slaughter –
"because of someone else's wife".
That is what they are snarling, under their breath,
and grief steals over them, mixed with resentment
against the chief prosecutors, the Atreidae.
And over there, around the city wall,
the men in their beauty occupy
sepulchres in the land of Ilium:
the enemy's soil covers its conquerors.
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)