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| Antoine Coypel Athalie chassée du temple (scene from Racine's Athalie) 1696 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Giuseppe Valeriani Stage Set with Cascade in a Garden (design for opera Bellerophon by Francesco Araja) ca. 1750 drawing British Museum |
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| Mauro Antonio Tesi Stage Design ca. 1755 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Romolo Achille Liverani Stage Set with Tent of Genghis Khan (design for ballet by Luigi Henry) 1828 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Honoré Daumier Théâtre-Français 1856 oil on panel National Gallery of Art,Washington DC |
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| Constantin Guys The Loge of the French Empress ca. 1860 ink and watercolor on paper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti Death of Lady Macbeth ca. 1875-76 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Lucien Pissarro Le Café Concert 1880 watercolor and gouache on silk British Museum |
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| William Henry Lippincott A Private Rehearsal 1896 oil on canvas Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Pablo Picasso En scène ca. 1901 pastel on paper Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Everett Shinn The White Ballet (imitation of Degas) 1904 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Werner Mantz Konzertsaal 1927 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Elizabeth Olds From the Top Balcony 1940 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Hirsch The Hecklers 1948 lithograph Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Diane Arbus Contortionist Lydia Suarez performing for an audience, Hubert’s Museum N.Y.C. 1958 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Robert Adams A Matinee at a mall - Lakewood, Colorado 1973 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Victoria Gewirz Spool ca. 2007 inkjet print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
A Tomb on the Shore
Stay off from me, wild sea,
two coffins' length,
and seethe and whine
with all your power.
But if you do sack the grave
of Eumares, me,
you'll find nothing real:
just dirt and bone.
– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Alan Marshfield