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| Jean-Baptiste Lallemand The Laundry ca. 1765 ink and watercolor on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Lambertus Johannes Hansen Traditional Dutch Interior ca. 1835-40 oil on canvas Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Karl Müller Coffee House Interior ca. 1880-90 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| James McNeill Whistler Moreby Hall ca. 1882-84 watercolor on paper Freer Gallery of Art Collection, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer John Singer Sargent in his Paris Studio ca. 1884 albumen print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Vilhelm Hammershøi Interior with Four Etchings 1904 oil on canvas Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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| William Buckle Interior ca. 1930 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Cecil Clark Davis Quiet Hour 1940 watercolor and gouache on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Weaver Hawkins Interior, Mona Vale: Rene reading 1944 watercolor on paper Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Andreas Feininger Members' Penthouse, Museum of Modern Art ca. 1945 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Horst P. Horst Marion Dorn surrounded by her Textile Designs 1947 tricolor carbro print Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Don Donaghy Old Man on Stone Stairs, Philadelphia 1962 gelatin silver print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Scott Hyde Untitled 1970 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Jeff Wall Morning Cleaning - Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona 1999 C-print Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Page Laughlin Untitled 2000 oil on linen, mounted on panel North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Tacita Dean Fernsehturm 2001 film still Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Jonas Wood Ovitz's Library 2013 oil and acrylic on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
from Argonautica
Alone Medea wakes: to love a prey,
Restless she rolls, and groans the night away:
For lovely Jason cares on cares succeed,
Lest vanquish'd by the bulls her hero bleed;
In sad review dire scenes of horrors rise,
Quick beats her heart, from thought to thought she flies:
As from the stream-stor'd vase with dubious ray
The sun beams dancing from the surface play;
Now here, now there the trembling radiance falls,
Alternate flashing round th' illumin'd walls:
Thus fluttering bounds the trembling virgin's blood,
And from her eyes descends a pearly flood.
Now raving with resistless flames she glows,
Now sick with love she melts with softer woes:
The tyrant God, of every thought possess'd,
Beats in each pulse, and stings and racks her breast:
Now she resolves the magic to betray –
To tame the bulls – now yield him up a prey.
Again the drugs disdaining to supply,
She loathes the light, and meditates to die:
Again, repelling with a brave disdain,
The coward thought, she nourishes the pain,
Then pausing thus: 'Ah wretched me! she cries,
Where'er I turn what varied sorrows rise!
Tost in a giddy whirl of strong desire,
I glow, I burn, yet bless the pleasing fire:
Oh! had this spirit from its prison fled,
By Dian sent to wander with the dead,
Ere the proud Grecians view'd the Colchian skies,
Ere Jason, lovely Jason, met these eyes!'
– Apollonius Rhodius (ca. 295-215 BC), translated by Francis Fawkes (1780)