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| Carl Wolf & Sohn (printers) Neue Kunst im Wohnraum ca. 1912 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Initial O ca. 1450-1500 gouache on vellum (detached from choir book) Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Jasper Johns Zero to Nine 1959 encaustic on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Carl Gustaf Rosenberg Theater in Gripsholm Castle ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Karl Friedrich Schinkel Temple of Apollo (stage set for Gluck's opera Alceste) 1819 hand-colored aquatint and etching Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Anonymous Printmaker after Andrea Palladio Elevation with Cross-section of Bramante's Tempietto, Rome 1581 woodcut from Quattro Libri dell'Architettura Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti Architectural Motif with a Figure ca. 1690 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Bernd and Hilla Becher Water Tower, Recklinghausen, Ruhrgebiet 1966 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Anonymous French Artist Architectural Sculpture Court 17th century drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Chris van der Windt Ornamental Foliation with Grotesque Face ca. 1890-1900 watercolor on paper Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Aurel Ciupe The White Shells 1970 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Édouard Manet Vase of White Lilacs and Roses 1883 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Jacob Fopsen van Es Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and Pomegranates ca. 1660 oil on copper Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Coenraet Roepel Overdoor with Festoon of Fruit ca. 1730-40 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Willi Baumeister Eidos IV 1939 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Graham Sutherland The Smelting Works - Twin Ladles 1941 watercolor and crayon on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Electra:
You speak of our father's death.* I was not there –
I was dishonoured, treated as worthless;
shut up in the bowels of the house, like a dangerous dog.
I brought up drops that flowed more readily than laughter,
I brought up drops that flowed more readily than laughter,
pouring out a lament full of tears, though hidden from view.
Such is the tale you must hear: record it in your mind.
Chorus:
Yes, record it, and let the words pierce
right through your ears to the quiet depths of your mind.
For such is the first part of the story,
For such is the first part of the story,
and the second part he himself** is burning to learn.
You must enter the arena with inflexible will.
Orestes:
I call on you, father: be with your friends.
Electra:
And I, through my tears, add my voice.
Chorus:
And this united company joins the cry:
hearken, rise to the light,
and be with us against our foes.
– Aeschylus, from The Libation-Bearers (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*here to be understood as including the funeral
**i.e. Agamemnon: "the second part" of the story will be the news that he has been avenged