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| Roman Empire Head of Long-haired Man AD 69-96 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Seated Philosopher 1st-2nd century AD marble statuette fragment Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
If this be love, to draw a weary breath,
To paint on floods till the shore cry to th' air,
With downward looks, still reading on the earth
The sad memorials of my love's despair;
If this be love, to war against my soul,
Lie down to wail, rise up to sigh and grieve,
The never-resting stone of care to roll,
Still to complain my griefs whilst none relieve;
If this be love, to clothe me with dark thoughts,
Haunting untrodden paths to wail apart,
My pleasures horror, music tragic notes,
Tears in mine eyes and sorrow in my heart;
If this be love, to live a living death,
Then do I love and draw this weary breath.
– Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
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| Roman Empire Head of Youth AD 41-54 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Head of Youth AD 41-54 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Diadumenos 1st-2nd century AD marble statue fragment Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Diadumenos 1st-2nd century AD marble statue fragment Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Caligula AD 37-41 marble bust Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Caligula AD 37-41 marble bust Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The pillar perished is whereto I leant,
The strongest stay of mine unquiet mind.
The like of it no man again can find
From east to west still seeking though he went,
To mine unhap, for hap away hath rent
Of all my joy the very bark and rind,
And I alas by chance am thus assigned
Dearly to mourn till death do it relent.
But since that thus it is by destiny,
What can I more but have a woeful heart,
My pen to plaint, my voice in woeful cry,
My mind in woe, my body full of smart,
And I myself myself always to hate
Till dreadful death do cease my doleful state?
– Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
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| Roman Empire Seated Male Figure 1st-2nd century AD marble statuette fragment Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Seated Male Figure 1st-2nd century AD marble statuette fragment Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Old Woman (aged courtesan approaching festival of-Dionysos) AD 14-68 marble statue (after Hellenistic model) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Head of Male Figure AD 50-100 marble fragment from Imperial relief Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Roman Empire Head of Male Figure AD 50-100 marble fragment from Imperial relief Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Roman Empire Diadumenos AD 69-96 marble statue (heavily restored) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |