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| Duane Michals Self Portrait with my Guardian Angel 1974 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| John O'Reilly Apparition 2014 collage of printed paper Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Max Pechstein Witches II 1907 woodcut Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Bjørn Ransve Demon II 1971 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Robert Rauschenberg Autobiography 1968 screenprint Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Martin Schaffner The Planets and their Earthly Attributes 1533 oil on panel (table top) Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Joseph Stella A Vision ca. 1925-26 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Herman de Vries To Be 1974 letterpress Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Minor White Windowsill Daydreaming 1958 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| attributed to Benedetto Bordone Poliphilo transported by the Dream to a Landscape of Ruins (from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna published by Aldus Manutius in Venice) 1499 woodcut Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Joseph Cornell Soap-Bubble Set (Lunar Space Object) ca. 1959 assemblage - glass, wood, printed paper, found,objects Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Albrecht Dürer Vision of the Seven Candlesticks 1498 woodcut Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Paola Ferrario Bastrop Museum, Bastrop, Texas 1994 C-print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Artemis marble 1st century AD (adaptation of more ancient cult statue, The Great Artemis of Ephesus) National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
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| Fernand Khnopff Chimera ca. 1910 oil on canvas Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels |
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| Laura McPhee Understory Flareups, Fourth of July, Creek Valley Road Wild Fire, Custer County, Idaho 2005 C-print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
Agamemnon: First of all it is right for me to address Argos and its native gods, who are responsible, together with myself, for my return and for the punishment I have exacted from the city of Priam. The gods heard pleas uttered not by men's tongues but through men's deaths, and without division of opinion cast their votes in the urn of blood for the destruction of Troy; to the vessel on the other side only hope approached – no hand filled it. Even now the smoke rising from the city proclaims it fallen; the gusts of ruin are still alive and blowing, and the ashes, reluctant to die down, send forth thick puffs of wealth. For this we must be deeply mindful of the gods' favour and pay them thanks, since we have punished that arrogant abduction, and on account of a woman a city has been ground into dust by the Argive beast, the offspring of the Horse, the shield-bearing host which made its jump about the time of the setting of the Pleiades; a lion, eater of raw flesh, leaped over the walls and licked its fill of royal blood.
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As regards other matters concerning the community and the gods, we will hold public assemblies and discuss them before the whole people together. We must consider how to make what is good stay good for a long time; and for anything that requires healing remedies we shall endeavour to avert the painful effects of the disease, either by cautery or by judicious use of the knife. Now I will enter my palace, come to the hearth of my home, and as my first act greet the gods who sped me on my way and have brought me back. And may victory, since she has followed me thus far, remain with me always!
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)