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| Irving Penn George Balanchine and Maria Tallchief 1947 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Karl Struss The Open Window ca. 1910-11 platinum print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Danny Lyon Abandoned Apartment, West Side, Lower Manhattan 1967 gelatin silver print Dayton Art Institute, Ohio |
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| Eugen, Prince of Sweden Villa Aldobrandini, Rome 1922 oil on canvas Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Johann Wilhelm Baur Martyrdom of a Saint 1637 tempera on vellum (cabinet miniature) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Eugène Boudin La Place Ary Scheffer, Dordrecht 1884 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum |
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| Anonymous French Artist Sack of Lyon by Impious Calvinists ca. 1565 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Henri Lebert Couvent des Unterlinden 1838 oil on canvas Musée Unterlinden, Colmar |
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| Anonymous Artist Times Square at Night ca. 1940 halftone print (postcard) Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Maurice de Vlaminck Village in Snow 1920 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch View at Nieuwkoop 1901 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum |
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| Henri Rachou Meditation 1893 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Georg Hinz Still Life in Stone Niche 1682 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Giulio Clovio King David dancing before the Ark of the Covenant ca. 1540 watercolor and gouache on vellum Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jean-Baptiste Belin the Elder Woman within Garland ca. 1690 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen |
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| Ludovic Alleaume Pomona 1929 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes |
Electra:
So hear, father, in turn
our grief, expressed with many tears:
see, at your tomb your two children
lament and groan for you:
your burial-place has welcomed us as suppliants who are also fugitives.
In all this, what is good, what is free from evil?
Is not ruin unconquerable?
Chorus:
But even from this situation god can still, if he wishes,
turn your songs into more auspicious ones,
turn your songs into more auspicious ones,
and instead of laments at a tomb
the paean may be heard in the royal halls
bringing in the welcome bowl of new-mixed wine.
Orestes:
If only, father,
you had been cut down and slain with the spear
you had been cut down and slain with the spear
at Ilium, by the hand of some Lycian!
You could have left behind you glory in your house,
given your children a life in which all would turn to look at them
in the streets, and had a tomb heaped high
with foreign soil,
an easy burden for your house to bear –
Chorus:
Cherishing and cherished by those who died nobly there,
prominent among them beneath the earth
as a ruler honoured and revered,
and an attendant of the greatest
underworld lords in that realm;
for he was a king while he lived,
wielding in his hands the power of life and death
and the sceptre that gained men's obedience.
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)