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| Anonymous German Artist Lady with a Mirror ca. 1750 ivory (partly painted) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Chinese Artist European Male reclining on a Couch ca. 1720-40 painted earthenware and wood Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| attributed to Bastiano Torrigiani The Ludovisi St Peter ca. 1590 Roman marble body, 2nd century AD, modified with gilt-bronze extremities and a marble throne Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| William Theed Prince Albert and Queen Victoria in Saxon Garb ca. 1863-67 plaster modello for marble mausoleum group at Frogmore (commissioned by Queen Victoria) Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Avon Pottery (France) Monk carrying a Woman ca. 1600-1625 lead-glazed earthenware Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anonymous French Artist Ornamental Mask ca. 1700 gilt bronze (component of fountain) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Leonard Baskin John Donne in his Winding Cloth ca. 1955 bronze Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Portrait Bust of Louisa Turner 1871 marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Lucas Faydherbe Bust of Hercules ca. 1640-50 terracotta Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Ridolfo Sirigatti Bust of the artist's mother, Cassandra Sirigatti 1578 marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Per Palle Storm Seated Athlete 1942 bronze National Gallery of Norway, Oslo |
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| Auguste Rodin The Young Convalescent (The Farewell) ca. 1906-1907 marble Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Anonymous Spanish Artist St Teresa of Avila ca. 1730 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Dutch Artist The Beheading of St John the Baptist ca. 1600 boxwood Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Guillaume Coustou the Elder Bust of Samuel Bernard ca. 1727 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Manuel Pereira Ecce Homo ca. 1650 carved and painted wood Yale University Art Gallery |
from Weeper in Jalisco
A circle of saints, all
hacked, mauled, bound,
bleed in a wooden frieze
under the gloom of the central
dome of gold. They
are in paradise now
and we are not –
baroque feet gone
funnelling up, a blood-
bought, early resurrection
leaving us this
tableau of wounds, the crack
in the universe sealed
behind their flying backs.
– Charles Tomlinson (1965)