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| Lovis Corinth Still Life with Figure (Birthday Picture) 1911 oil on canvas Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
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| Johan Christian Dahl Eruption of Vesuvius 1821 oil on canvas KODE (Art Museums Complex), Bergen, Norway |
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| Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki Death of Pliny the Elder in the Eruption of Vesuvius 1792 etching Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| James Henry Daugherty Cabaret 1914 watercolor and gouache on paper Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Christer Strömholm Hamburg 1952 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Lelio Orsi The Entombment ca. 1580 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes |
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| Michel Dorigny Hercules and Iolaus slaying the Hydra 1651 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Willem Cornelisz Duyster Carnival Revelers ca. 1620-30 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Eugène Devéria Christopher Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella 1861 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Henry Fuseli Woman on a Balcony ca. 1790-92 drawing, with added watercolor Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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| Léon Glaize Samson breaking his Bonds 1864 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse |
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| Hellenistic Culture Artemis battling Giants (detail) 175-150-BC fragments of marble frieze from the Pergamon Altar Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Stuart Davis Blips and Ifs 1963-64 oil on canvas Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Fernand Cormon The Harem (Scene from 1001 Nights) ca. 1877 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne |
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| John W. Paret Acrobatic Exhibition, Live Oak Creek 1910-11 cyanotype Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Jean-André Rixens Death of Cleopatra 1874 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
The ekkyklema is rolled out of the main door. On it is Orestes, standing over the dead bodies of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus; in his right hand is his sword, in his left hand the wreathed olive-branch of a suppliant. He is accompanied by several attendants, two of whom are holding between them a folded robe.
Orestes: Behold the twin tyrants of this land, the murderers of my father and the ravagers of my house! They were august in the old days, sitting on their thrones, and they are still a loving pair – or so one may guess their fate to be – and their oath has been faithful to its pledges: they joined in an oath to do my wretched father to death and to die together, and that oath has been duly kept. [Pointing to the robe] Behold also, you who are hearing of these crimes, the contrivance that imprisoned my wretched father, that fettered his arms and bound his feet together. [To his attendants] Spread it out, standing beside it in a circle, and display the device that made him helpless, the garment to cover a man which he could not strip off, in order that the Father may see it – I don't mean my father, but him who has been watching over all these events – so that he may one day appear for me in a trial, to testify that I was justified in pursuing this killing of my mother.
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)