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| Jules-Léon Flandrin Le Bal Bullier 1931 oil on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
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| Erich Heckel Studio Scene ca. 1910 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Loes van der Horst Window Seat 3 2002 watercolor on paper Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Kristoffer Zetterstrand The Game 2009 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Louis-Léopold Boilly Trompe l'oeil Still Life ca. 1808 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Pierre Bonnard Fish on a Plate 1921 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Victor Arimondi Harold G., model 1989 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Tor Bjurström Still Life ca. 1921 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Diego Rivera Still Life with Liquor Bottle 1915 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Henri Matisse The Red Carpet 1906 oil on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
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| Johann August Preusse Coffee Table ca. 1930-40 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Juan Gris Siphon, Glass and Newspaper 1916 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Karl Andersson Hepaticas 1939 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Ludwig von Hofmann Southern Coast ca. 1898-1900 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Gustave Caillebotte Man docking his Skiff 1878 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond |
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| Albin Egger-Lienz Mountain Reapers 1907 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
Chorus:
Let the tears fall loudly
for our departed master
for our departed master
at this stronghold of the good, which averts
the abominable pollution of the wicked,
now the drink-offerings have been poured.
Hear, I pray you, revered one! Hear, my master,
in the gloominess of your heart!
Ototototototoi!
Oh, if only there would come a man, mighty with the spear,
to set the house free again, brandishing in his hands
Scythian weapons* in the work of war
and wielding a sword, of one piece with its hilt, for close fighting!
Electra: Now my father has the drink-offerings – the earth has swallowed them; but here is something new about which I want to share a word with you.
Chorus: Speak out; my heart is leaping with fear.
Electra: [pointing to the lock left by Orestes] I see this cut lock of hair on the tomb.
Chorus: From what man, or what slim-waisted maiden?
Electra: There is nobody who could have cut it except myself.
Chorus: Yes, those who ought to have mourned him with hair-offerings are his enemies.
Electra: [picking up the lock] And another thing – this looks very similar –
Chorus: To whose hair? That's what I want to know.
Electra: That's easy for anyone to guess and form an opinion.
Chorus: So how can I, old as I am, learn from someone younger?
Electra: [holding the lock up next to her own head] It greatly resembles my own.
Chorus: You mean this was a secret gift from Orestes?
Electra: It looks very much like his locks.
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*i.e. bow and arrows