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| Titian Portrait of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino 1545 oil on panel Yale University Art Gallery |
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| El Greco Portrait of humanist Antonio de Covarrubias ca. 1597-1600 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Frans Pourbus the Younger Portrait of Marie de Medici, Queen of France 1613 oil on canvas Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Nicolas Tournier An Apostle ca. 1630 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
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| Matthias Stom St Gregory the Great ca. 1635 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Philippe de Champaigne St Paul ca. 1660 oil on canvas Musée Saint-Loup, Troyes |
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| Elisabetta Sirani Omphale, with the Club of Hercules ca, 1660-61 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Rembrandt Juno ca. 1662-65 oil on canvas Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jonathan Richardson, Senior Portrait of Sir Andrew Fountaine ca. 1710 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giacomo Ceruti (il Pitocchetto) Portrait of a Lady ca. 1760 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Anton Graff Portrait of Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer ca. 1790 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Katharina Karolina Luja Self Portrait ca. 1828 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Dionysios Tsokos Portrait of attorney Donatos Dimoulitsas of Corfu ca. 1850 oil on paper National Gallery, Athens |
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| Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre Halima ca. 1870-80 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne |
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| Carolus-Duran Head Study ca. 1885 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Wilhelm Lachnit Young Woman with Fur Coat ca. 1925-26 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
On a Headless Statue – The work of art has lost what was required for judging it; for even it itself cannot inform us to whom it gave its head.
On a Statue of Priapus – Beware from afar off of the guardian set up in the kitchen garden. I am such as thou seest me, O thou who goest past me, made of fig-wood, not polished with shagreen, nor carved by rule and measure, but by a shepherd's self-taught chisel. Laugh foolishly at me, but take care not to damage Eucles' property or you may have to laugh grimly too.
On Tantalus carved on a Cup – He who once sat at the table of the gods, he who often filled his belly with nectar, now lusts for a mortal liquor, but the envious brew is ever lower than his lips. "Drink," says the carving, "and learn the secret of silence; thus are we punished who are loose of tongue."
On a Monument on the Acropolis of Pergamus with Reliefs of the Labours of Heracles – Look, Heracles, thou of the countless labours, at these thy emprises, after achieving which thou didst go to Olympus, the house of the immortals; Geryon, the famous apples, the great task of Augeas, the horses, Hippolyte, the many-headed snake, the boar, the baying hound of Chaos, the wild beast of Nemea, the birds, the bull, the Maenalian hind. But now, standing on the height of Pergamus, the inexpugnable city, defend the great sons of Telephus.
On Heracles and Antaeus – Who moulded this bronze that groans, and by the power of his art thus figured effort and daring? The statue is alive, and I pity him who is in distress, and shudder at Heracles the bold and mighty; for he holds Antaeus sore pressed by the grip of his hands, and the giant doubled up seems even to be groaning.
On a Portrait of King Lysimachus – Seeing the man's flowing locks, and the club, and the dauntless spirit in his eyes, and the fierce frown on his brow, seek for the lion's skin in the portrait, and if thou findest it, it is Heracles; but if not, this is the picture of Lysimachus.
– from Book XVI (Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)