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| Robert de Badous after Hendrik Goltzius Dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus before 1659 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Giovanni Andrea Maglioli Hippocampus before 1610 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Giovanni Andrea Maglioli Pair of mythical sea creatures before 1610 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Girolamo Mocetto Frieze with Neptune and Tritons ca. 1517 engraving Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Jacob de Gheyn III Triton sounding conch ca. 1616-20 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
from What to Read This Summer
You received some negative attention
from Triton, after blowing his conch so loud
you inadvertently entered yourself
in an unwinnable contest; now,
stuck in a twenty-first-century translation
of hell, you press the stops, and for an obol
prepare our burial in an infinite axial scroll
with a tinier and tinier turning radius,
as if we were those hordes, the unsanctified,
who shoved one another along the Cocytus,
none led on to the golden bough
by Venus's semaphore, the unloved rock doves,
whom Virgil treats so gently in the Aeneid.
– Ange Mlinko (2017)
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| Giovanni Battista Scultori River God (the River Po) 1538 engraving National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Adamo Scultori Hercules and the Nemean Lion ca. 1550-70 engraving National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Annibale Carracci Hercules resting (study for fresco in the Camerino Farnese at Palazzo Farnese, Rome) ca. 1596-97 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Cornelis Bos after Michiel Coxie Jupiter and Aegina ca. 1537-55 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Angiolo Falconetto after Giulio Romano Apollo (with symbolic attributes) accompanied by Pegasus ca. 1556-60 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Venus appeals to Cupid to make Pluto fall in love with Proserpina ca. 1591-94 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Maerten de Vos Summer - Ceres ca. 1587-88 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Maerten de Vos Winter - Aeolus 1588 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Adriaen Collaert after Maerten de Vos Personifications of Light ca. 1580-84 hand-colored engravings Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |