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| P.C. Skovgaard View from Garden Terrace ca. 1860 oil on canvas Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Denmark |
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| Jan de Meyere Beggar, Holland ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Rolf Winquist Untitled ca. 1960 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Master of Flémalle Portrait of a Man ca. 1430 tempera on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Hendrick de Vries Portrait of artist Wobbe Alkema 1930 drawing Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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| Jean Valette-Falgores Penot Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist (trompe-l'oeil imitating stone relief panel) ca. 1750 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Pietro Paolini (il Lucchese) The Procuress ca. 1670 oil on canvas Musée de l'Oise |
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| Isaak Brodsky V.I. Lenin in Smolny ca. 1925 oil on canvas State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| Jan Cossiers Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1640 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Orazio Gentileschi David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1610 oil on copper Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| John Hertzberg Self Portrait ca. 1930 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Brassaï Chez Suzy 1932 gelatin silver print Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| John Börjeson Ball Player 1871 marble statue (carved in Rome) Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Eva Rubinstein Torso (front) 1972 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Monogrammist PP David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1500 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Eteocles: O Zeus, and Earth, and you gods of the city, O mighty Curse and Fury of my father, do not let my city be captured by its foes, do not extirpate it from Greece, root and branch, in utter destruction! Never bind this free land and this free city of Cadmus with the yokestrap of slavery! Be its defence! I believe I am speaking in our common interest; for when a city enjoys success, it honours its gods.
[Exit Eteocles towards the walls. The Chorus of Theban maidens enter, from the town in terror and confusion.]
Chorus:
Ah, ah, I cry for great, fearful sufferings!
The army has been let loose, it has left its camp!
This great host of horse is pouring forward at the gallop!
The dust I see in the air shows me it is so,
a voiceless messenger, but true and certain!
The soil of my land,
struck by hooves, sends the noise right to my ear!
It's flying, it's roaring like an irresistible
mountain torrent!
Oh, oh, you gods and you goddesses, keep off
this surge of evil!
The noise of a war-cry comes over the walls:
the army with the white shields rise
plain to see, coming swift-footed against the city!
Who, who of the gods or goddesses
will protect us, who will ward them off?
Should I, then, fall down before
the ancestral images of our gods?
O blest ones, in your fair abode!
Now is the moment to clasp the images: why do we wait
and moan to no purpose?
Do you hear, or do you not, the clatter of shields?
When, when, if not now, shall we be able to adorn
the gods with robes and garlands as prayer-offerings?
I see the noise – it is the clatter of many spears!
What do you mean to do, Ares, ancient god
of this land? betray your own country?
God of the golden helmet, watch over, watch over the city
which you once held worthy of your love!
[They approach the shrine, prostrate themselves, and embrace the images.]
– Aeschylus, from Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)