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| Anonymous German Artist St George and the Dragon ca. 1700 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Johann Baptist Cetto Resurrected Christ as a Gardener, recognized by Mary ca. 1700 wax Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Angelo de' Rossi The Annunciation ca. 1700-1715 terracotta Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous German Artist The Flagellation ca. 1700-1725 ivory Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Magnus Berg The Entombment 1710 ivory (rilievo schiacciato) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous French Artist Andromache mourning Hector early 18th century wax Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
"Being past, being no more, is passionately at work in things. To this the historian trusts for his subject matter. He depends on this force, and knows things as they are at the moment of their ceasing to be."
– Walter Benjamin, from First Sketches for The Arcades Project, translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Harvard, 1999)
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| Jean Le Blanc Atlas supporting the Heavens 1715 bronze National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Ermengildo Hamerani Venus and Hercules (modello for reverse of a bronze medal commemorating the marriage of James Stuart and Clementina Sobieski) 1719 wax on slate British Museum |
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| Leonhard Stainhart The Disrobing of Christ before 1721 ivory Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ignatius van Logteren Venus and Adonis 1730 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"There are, at bottom, two sorts of philosophy and two ways of noting down thoughts. One is to sow them in the snow – or, if you prefer, in the fire clay – of pages; Saturn is the reader to contemplate their increase, and indeed to harvest their flower (the meaning) or their fruit (the verbal expression). The other way is to bury them with dignity and erect as sepulcher above their grave the image, the metaphor – cold and barren marble."
– Walter Benjamin, from First Sketches for The Arcades Project, translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Harvard, 1999)
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| Jacob Dobbermann Homage to Venus ca. 1730-40 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Antonio Montauti The Triumph of Neptune and Europa ca. 1735-40 bronze Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Jan Baptist Xavery Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl 1742 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Peter Hencke Abduction of the Sabine Women 1743 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |