Editing Pandora (section)

===Pandora in character===
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File:Pandora Loison cour Carree Louvre.jpg|''Pandora'' (1861) by Pierre Loison (1816–1886)
File:Madame Vestris as Pandora.jpg|[[Lucia Elizabeth Vestris|Madame Vestris]] in the burlesque ''Prometheus and Pandora'', an 1831 print
File:Alexandre Cabanel - Pandora - Walters 3799.jpg|Swedish soprano [[Christina Nilsson|Christine Nilsson]] as ''Pandora'' by [[Alexandre Cabanel]], 1873
File:Pandora-1879.jpg|[[Jane Morris]] in the role, [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]], coloured chalks, 1879
File:Yvonne Park - Pandora.png|[[Yvonne Gregory]]'s [[photogram]] recreates a pose from a painting, 1919 
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The pattern during the 19th century had only repeated that of the nearly three millennia before it. The ancient myth of Pandora never settled into one accepted version, was never agreed to have a single interpretation. It was used as a vehicle to illustrate the prevailing ideologies or artistic fashions of the time and eventually became so worn a coinage that it grew confused with other, sometimes later, stories. Best known in the end for a single metaphorical attribute, the box with which she was not even endowed until the 16th century, depictions of Pandora have been further confused with other holders of receptacles – with one of the trials of [[Psyche (mythology)|Psyche]],<ref>Panofsky 1956, p.41</ref> with [[Sophonisba]] about to drink poison<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09460/lot.6.html| title = Sotherby's catalogue note}}</ref> or [[Artemisia II of Caria|Artemisia]] with the ashes of her husband.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.blouinartsalesindex.com/auctions/Elisabetta-Sirani-6504507/Portrait-of-a-lady,-half-length,-as-Pandora-or-Artemisia| title = Blouin Art Sales}}</ref> Nevertheless, her very polyvalence has been in the end the guarantor of her cultural survival.