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| Paolo Farinati Emperor Vespasian ca. 1560-80 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Paolo Farinati Emperor Aulus Vitellius ca. 1565-70 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Paolo Farinati Alexander the Great before 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Paolo Farinati Alexander the Great in Persian Costume, with Cupid before 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Paolo Farinati Alexander the Great in Persian Costume, with Cupid before 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Sonnet
Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood,
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws
And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood,
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st,
And do what e'er thou wilt, swift-footed time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets:
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime,
O carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,
Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen,
Him in thy course untainted do allow
For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.
Yet do thy worst, old time, despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young.
– William Shakespeare (published 1609)
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| Paolo Farinati Seated Woman holding a Dagger (possibly Lucretia) before 1606 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Paolo Farinati Julius Caesar before 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Paolo Farinati Mithridates, King of Pontus before 1606 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Paolo Farinati King David with Harp before 1606 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Paolo Farinati Man resting on Staff before 1606 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Paolo Farinati Grape Gatherers before 1606 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Paolo Farinati Two Kneeling Shepherds before 1606 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Paolo Farinati Page holding the Reins of a Rearing Horse ca. 1589 drawing British Museum |
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| Paolo Farinati Four Standing Draped Female Figures before 1606 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |