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| Giovanni Francesco Rustici Dancing Faun ca. 1515 bronze National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Jupiter ca. 1550 bronze Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Venus Caritas ca. 1520-23 bronze Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Bartolomeo Ammanati Hercules and the Nemean Lion before 1597 marble (antique torso modified and extended) Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Mercury 1639 ivory Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Michel Anguier Neptune with Hippocamp 1652 bronze National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Romulo del Tadda Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar 17th century terracotta Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Robert Le Lorrain Galatea 1701 marble National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| François Coudray Daphne 1726 marble Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory Crouching Venus ca. 1740-45 porcelain National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory River God ca. 1750 porcelain Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory Sphinx ca. 1750-52 porcelain National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Augustin Pajou Calliope ca. 1763 marble National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Derby Porcelain Factory Neptune ca. 1800-1810 porcelain National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Antonio Canova Terpsichore Lyran (Muse of Lyric Poetry) 1816 marble Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Alexandre Falguière Diana 1882 bronze Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
In Longfellow's Library
Sappho
and the Venus de Milo
gaze out past
gaze out past
the scintillations from
the central
candelabrum
to where
(on an upper shelf)
plaster Goethe
in a laurel
crown, looks
down divided
from a group
dancing a
tarantella, by
the turquoise butterfly
that Agassiz
brought back
dead: below
these, the busts of
Homer, Aeschylus
and Sophocles still
pedestalled where
they ambushed Hiawatha.
– Charles Tomlinson (1966)