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| Julius Mante Ideal Head of an American ca. 1890 oil on panel Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Nicolas de Largillière La belle Strasbourgeoise 1703 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg |
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| Lié-Louis Périn Portrait of military surgeon Jean-Baptiste Duquenelle ca. 1795 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Johann Kaspar Heilmann Self Portrait ca. 1748 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse |
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| Alfred Cheney Johnston Lady in Green Velvet ca. 1930-40 carbro print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| August Sander Soldier ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Hippolyte Berteaux La Bretonne 1900 oil on canvas Musée du Château des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes |
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| Anonymous German Artist Portrait of Margarethe von der Saale 1539 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Head of Turbaned Man 1760 drawing Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Harald Sohlberg Girl with Hat ca. 1890 drawing Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Tom Kosmo The Experiment 2009 mezzotint KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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| Joseph-Laurent Bouvier The Egyptian ca. 1868 oil on canvas (exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1869) Musée de Grenoble |
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| Lovis Corinth Merchant and art collector Arthur Kraft costumed as Cesare Borgia 1914 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Joseph Edward von Gillern Portrait of Frau Manheimer 1824 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Jan van Eyck Portrait of Margareta van Eyck 1439 oil on panel (earliest surviving portrait of an artist's spouse) Groeninge Museum, Bruges |
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| Jean-Léon Gérôme Tête de Femme coiffée de Cornes de Bélier 1853 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes |
Chorus:
And at first I would say that what came
to Ilium's city was a spirit
of windless calm,
a gentle adornment of wealth,
a soft glance darted from the eyes,
a flower of love to pierce the soul.
But she swerved aside and brought about
a bitter end to the marriage,
having come to the family of Priam
as an evil settler, an evil companion,
sent by Zeus god of hospitality,
a Fury who made brides weep.
There is a hoary saying, long spoken among mankind,
that a man's prosperity,
ripened and grown great,
has offspring and does not die childless,
that from his good fortune there springs
insatiable woe for his family.
But I differ from others, and have a belief of my own:
it is the impious deed
that breeds more to follow,
resembling their progenitors:
for a house that keeps the straight path of justice
breeds a fortune that is always fair.
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)