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| Lucio Fanti Lenin's Chair at Smolny in 1917 ca. 1985 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Anonymous Russian Artist The Fascist Boot ca. 1935 lithograph (poster) Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Jakov Chalip The Red Workers' Navy ca. 1935 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Prosper Debia The Tree of Liberty ca. 1850 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Philipp Veit Italia ca. 1834-36 detached mural Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Wolf Vostell Miss America 1968 screenprint and collage on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Ancient Greek Culture The Hero-Physician Amynos with Model of Afflicted Leg 325-300 BC marble votive relief (excavated in Athens) National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
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| Ferdinand Flodin Rococo 1922 pigment print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| attributed to Michiel Coxie Plato's Cave ca. 1540 oil on panel Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai |
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| Oliviero Gatti Statue of Athena as Emblem of Wisdom 1628 engraving Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Augustinus Terwesten Allegory of the Continent of Africa 1694 oil on canvas Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin |
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| Augustinus Terwesten Allegory of the Continent of America 1694 oil on canvas Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin |
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| Augustinus Terwesten Allegory of the Continent of Asia 1694 oil on canvas Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin |
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| Augustinus Terwesten Allegory of the Continent of Europe 1694 oil on canvas Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin |
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| Caspar David Friedrich Tree of Ravens ca. 1822 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Franz and Johannes Riepenhausen Love for Sale (Venus offering Cupids) 1806 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
Clytemnestra [as Agamemnon walks slowly over the fabrics towards the palace door]: There is a sea – who will ever dry it up? – which breeds an ever-renewed ooze of abundant purple, worth its weight in silver, to dye clothing with. So with the gods' help, my lord, we can remedy this loss; our house does not know what poverty is. To contrive a means of bringing this man back alive, I would have vowed to trample many garments, if that had been prescribed to our family in an oracle. For while the root remains, foliage comes to a house, spreading shade over it against the dog-star Sirius; and likewise, now you have come to the hearth of your home, your coming signifies warmth in winter, while when Zeus is making wine out of the sour young grapes, even then it is cool in the house, when the man who is its lord is present in his home. [Agamemnon disappears into the palace. Clytemnestra raises her hands to heaven.] Zeus, Zeus, lord of all fulfillment, fulfil my prayers, and whatever you intend to fulfill, take care to do so, I beg you.* [She goes inside. Cassandra remains in the carriage.]
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*This formulation implies that Clytemnestra is certain that Zeus desires the death of Agamemnon.