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| Fra Bartolomeo Tree Studies ca. 1508 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Sketch of a Tree ca. 1575-1600 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Antonio Tempesta Tree against a Landscape 1589 etching Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Annibale Carracci Landscape with a Man sleeping beneath a Tree 1595 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cristofano Allori Sketch of Trees before 1621 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Bartolomeo Torregiani Wooded Landscape 1646 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Pietro Testa Large Tree with Classical Figures before 1650 drawing British Museum |
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| Ercole Bazicaluva Tree in a Landscape ca. 1650 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Bernardino Santini Study of a Tree before 1652 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Bolognese Artist Tree Study 17th century drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Remigio Cantagallina Oak before 1656 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Pier Francesco Mola Windblown Trees before 1666 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Salvator Rosa Tree Study before 1673 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi Tall Tree against a Landscape before 1680 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Francesco or Flaminio Allegrini Landscape with Sheep before 1684 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Crescenzio Onofri Waterside Tree before 1698 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
from Pura Vida
What does the world's wide brimming mean, with hunger
the unstated secret, dying the proximate reality?
Con mucho gusto – the muchness extends to the stars,
as wet and numerous as larvae underground
where the ants in their preset patterns scurry and nurture,
and the queen, immobilized, pours forth her eggs
in the dark. We are far from oaks and stoplights,
from England's chill classrooms and Tuscany's paved hills.
– John Updike (2000)