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| Willem Reijers Portrait of a Woman 1938 drawing Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Alexander Rodchenko Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky 1924 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Francisque Duret (François-Joseph Duret) Orestes 1824-25 marble (carved in Rome) Musée Calvet, Avignon |
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| Alonso Sánchez Coello Portrait of Infante Don Carlos (subject of Schiller play and Verdi opera) 1564 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Edward Dwurnik Before the Heart Attack 1972 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Henry Fuseli Portrait of a Lady ca. 1785 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Jean-Pierre Granger Portrait of Jean-Charles-Auguste Simon 1806 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Art d'Orléans |
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| Ivan Kramskoy Portrait of actor Vasily Samoylov 1881 oil on canvas State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| Alfhild Lunde Portrait of Tore Steen 1925 oil on canvas Oslo City Museum |
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| Charles Le Brun Portrait of Israël Silvestre ca. 1670 pastel on paper Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Jean Jouvenet Portrait of a Canon 1696 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen |
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| Ernest Hébert Self Portrait at age 17 1834 oil on canvas Musée Hébert, Paris |
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| Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli) Portrait of a Man (the Terris Portrait) 1506 oil on panel San Diego Museum of Art |
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| Balthasar Denner Study of a Woman ca. 1720 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Robert Nanteuil Portrait of a Man 1662 pastel on paper Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Félix Nadar Charles Baudelaire ca. 1860 print from wet collodion negative Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Clytemnestra:
Chorus:
Spirit that assaults this house
and two Tantalids*so different in their nature,
and controls it, in a way that rends my heart,
through the agency of women whose souls were alike!**
Standing over the corpse, in the manner
of a loathsome raven, it glories
in tunelessly singing a song of joy.
Clytemnestra:
Now you are voicing a more correct opinion,
naming the thrice-fattened
spirit of this family.
From it grows the terrible lust to lick blood:
before the old wound is healed, there is fresh suppuration.
Chorus:
But it is a great spirit of grievous wrath,
destructive to the house, that you tell of –
ah, ah, an evil tale to tell! –
insatiable in its appetite for ruinous events –
ió, ié! – and all by the will of Zeus,
the Cause of all things, the Effector of all effects:
for what comes to pass for mortals, except by Zeus's doing?
what of all this is not divinely ordained?
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*The two Tantalids are Agamemnon and Menelaus. Tantalus, the father of Pelops, was their great-grandfather.
**The two brothers "so different in their nature" had for their wives two half-sisters whose "souls were alike" in one crucial respect – their adulterous lust – which in both cases led to disastrous consequences.