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| Luca Giordano Annunciation 1672 |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Annunciation c. 1620 |
Italian paintings from the 17th century, as we have often seen, might with equal likelihood represent episodes from Christian tradition or pagan mythology. It was the viewer's job to distinguish and interpret these two separate domains of visual reference, even while both were built on the same vocabulary of baroque gesture.
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| Alessandro Turchi Diana & Actaeon c. 1600 |
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| Leonello Spada Aeneas & Anchises 1615 |
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| Salvator Rosa Allegory of Fortune 1658-59 |
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| Andrea di Lione Tobit Burying the Dead 1640s |
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| Domenico Fetti Sacrifice of Elijah c. 1621-22 |
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| Filippo Lauri Jacob Fleeing Laban 1686 |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Apollo & Marsyas 1655-58 |
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| Guido Reni Hercules on the Pyre c. 1617-19 |
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| Unidentified Italian Painter Death of Samson c. 1650 |
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| Massimo Stanzione Judith & Holofernes 1640 |