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| Oresteia Triptych |
| 75 x 201 inches (190 x 170cm each, overall size 190 x 510cm) |
| Left hand side: Sacrifice, centre: Trophies; Right hand side: Rescue |
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| Sacrifice | Tower | Rescue | ||
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| Aeschylus meets Tamerlane who built towers of his victims' heads. Here he is visibly aroused by his collection of trophies. | Artemis rescues Iphigenia from the flames and replaces her with a fawn which has morphed here into a black dog, already clad in sacrificial red. | |||