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| Evelyn Hofer Alma and Sylvia, Soglio (Switzerland) 1991 gelatin silver print Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| August Sander Country Girls 1925 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Cornelis de Vos Two Sisters ca. 1610-15 oil on copper Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| Georg Baselitz Best Friends 1965 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Hans Baldung Adam and Eve ca. 1514 woodcut Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Chris Beekman Sawing 1917 casein on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Klaas Gubbels Woman with Still Life 1965 oil on burlap Dordrechts Museum |
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| Jean-Louis Hamon Scene in Ancient Rome 1849 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Brieuc |
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| Bart van der Leck Hussars 1911 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Carl Jacob Malmberg Untitled ca. 1875 albumen print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Giambattista Moroni Two Donors in Adoration before the Virgin and Child with St Michael Archangel ca. 1557-60 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond |
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| Ann Parker and Avon Neal The Bellows Infants, Rockingham, Vermont, 1799 1963 rubbing on paper from gravestone Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Jacques Boulbène Allegory of the Four Functions of the Capitoulat (ruling council) of Toulouse ca. 1590 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| workshop of Jacques-Louis David Mars disarmed by the Graces ca. 1800 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie du Périgord |
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| Maître de l’Emmaüs de Pau Supper at Emmaus 1610 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Ludwig Hohlwein Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen ca. 1910 lithograph (advertising poster for shipping line) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Chorus:
May it be my lot to raise a massed cry
of triumph over a man
struck down and a woman
perishing; for why should I conceal
struck down and a woman
perishing; for why should I conceal
what kind of thought is hovering
within my mind? Ahead of the prow
of my heart there blows a harsh wind
of anger, of raging hatred.
Electra:
When, O when will almighty
Zeus lay his hand upon them –
oh, ah! – splitting their heads?
May the land be given a pledge!*
I am demanding justice in place of injustice:
I am demanding justice in place of injustice:
hear me, Earth, and you honoured gods below!
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*i.e. that justice will triumph and that Zeus is in control