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| Anonymous German sculptor St George and the Dragon ca. 1700-1710 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Anonymous German sculptor The Holy Trinity ca. 1700-1720 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Anonymous Spanish sculptor Virgin and Child ca. 1700-1720 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Angelo de Rossi Annunciation ca. 1700-1715 terracotta relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Ignatius van Logteren Venus and Adonis 1730 marble relief Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan Baptist Xavery Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl 1742 marble relief Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Dutch sculptor Bacchus and Venus ca. 1750-75 marble relief Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"The second half of the eighteenth century in Europe saw the increasing influence of classical antiquity on artistic style and the development of taste. The achievements of the Renaissance from the period of Raphael to that of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain served as a conduit for a renewed interest in harmony, simplicity, and proportion, an interest that gained momentum as the new science of archaeology brought forth spectacular remnants of a buried world of great beauty. . . . It was not until the eighteenth century that a concerted effort to systematically retrieve the glories of lost civilizations began. Illustrations of freshly discovered archaeological ruins in Athens, Naples, Paestum, Palmyra, Baalbek and the Dalmatian Coast were disseminated throughout Europe in treatises with detailed descriptions, picturesque landscape views, reproductions of frescoes, and measured drawings of temples, theaters, mausoleums, and sculptures."
– Cybele Gontar, from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum
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| Gaspar van der Hagen Sacrifice to Hercules ca. 1766 marble relief Yale Center for British Art |
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| Theodore Xavery Mercury and Argus 1775 ivory relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Thomas Banks Thetis and her Nymphs rising from the Sea to console Achilles for the Loss of Patroclus 1778-79 marble relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Wedgwood & Bentley Medusa (designed by John Flaxman) 1776 jasperware Harvard Art Museums |
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| Sèvres Manufactory Six draped Huntresses ca, 1790 porcelain plaque Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Antonio Trentanove Venus and Adonis ca. 1794 terracotta relief (sketch for stucco panel) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Philipp Jakob Scheffauer Artemisia in mourning 1794 marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |