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| Anonymous Artist The Heart of the City by Night - Tacoma U.S.A. ca. 1908 halftone print (postcard) Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Paul Strand New York 1916 photogravure Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Charlie Wunder Aerial View of Destroyed Mine ca. 1948 collodion silver print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Jean d'Alheim View of Paris from Montmartre ca. 1885 oil on canvas Musée Petiet de Limoux |
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| Maximilien Luce Paris viewed from Montmartre ca. 1887 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Anders Zorn In the Park of the Alhambra 1887 watercolor on paper Zornmuseet, Mora, Sweden |
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| Lucas van Valckenborch Imperial Forest Walk with New Palace ca. 1593 oil on copper Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rune Johansen Sea to Sky 2016 giclée print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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| Lovis Corinth Walchensee 1920 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Max Klinger Terrace in Garden near Meissen 1879 oil on panel Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Félix Vallotton Maison et Roseaux ca. 1923 oil on canvas Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg |
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| Vincent van Gogh Field with Poppies 1889 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Bremen |
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| attributed to Louis de Caullery Semiramis hunting Lion at the Gates of Babylon 1597 oil on panel Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Jan Brueghel the Younger The Temptation of St Anthony ca. 1620-30 oil on panel Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Pieter Brueghel the Younger after Pieter Brueghel the Elder Massacre of the Innocents ca. 1586-90 oil on panel Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania |
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| Lothar von Seebach La rue de la Douane à Strasbourg - Effet de Pluie ca. 1895 oil on canvas Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg |
Electra: Dearest one, treasure of your father's house! The seed we wept for, in the hope it would sprout and save us! O joyful light, you fill four roles for me. I must needs address you as father, and the affection I owe to a mother falls to you – for her I hate, with every justification – and also that of the sister who was pitilessly sacrificed; and you were a faithful brother, the only person who has shown me respect. For you have come back to save me, and surely, if you trust in your valour, you will win back possession of your father's house: only let Power and Justice, together with the third, the greatest of them all, Zeus, be with you.
Orestes: Zeus, Zeus, look down on these things! Behold the orphan brood of the eagle father, of him who died in the twisting coils of the fearsome viper! The bereaved children are hard pressed by ravenous hunger, for they are not yet full-grown so as to be able to bring home to the nest the prey their father hunted. So too you can see this woman, Electra, and me, children robbed of their father, both alike in banishment from their home. And if you allow us nestlings to perish, whose father was the great sacrificer who greatly glorified you, from whence will you get the honour of a fine feast given with comparable generosity? If you let the brood of the eagle perish, you would never again be able to send mortals signs that they would readily believe; and if this ruling stock is allowed to shrivel away entirely, it cannot minister to your altars on days when oxen are sacrificed. Take care of us, and you can raise this house from littleness to greatness, a house that to all appearance is now utterly fallen.
Chorus: Children, saviours of your father's hearth, keep quiet, for fear someone finds out, children, and for the sake of talking tells all this to the rulers – whom may I one day see dead in the pitchy ooze of the flame!*
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*This does not refer to a funeral pyre (mention of which would be irrelevant ornamentation) but to the terrible punishment of being coated with pitch and burnt alive.