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| Ferdinand Erfmann Acrobats 1964 oil on canvas Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht |
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| Wiener Kunstkeramische Werkstätte Boy with Crocodile ca. 1910 glazed earthenware National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Gari Melchers Four Figures bearing a Burden ca. 1900 drawing (study for mural, Peace) Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Adolf von Hildebrand Fisherman carrying a Net 1886 marble Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Antoine-Louis Barye after Giambologna Hercules carrying the Erymanthean Boar ca. 1850 bronze statuette (partly gilt) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Pieter Xavery Satyr 1671 terracotta statuette High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Giovanni Pietro Possenti Two Putti carrying a Third ca. 1650 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Bernardino Cesari Faun abducting Nymph ca. 1616 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Monogrammist DS Angel with Column of the Passion ca. 1599 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Annibale Carracci Study for Hercules Supporting the Globe ca. 1595-97 drawing Biblioteca Reale, Turin |
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| Cornelis Cort Antique Statue of Bacchus carrying the Young Dionysus ca. 1574 engraving Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist The Paralytic healed by Christ ca. 1560-90 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Venetian Artist Pan as Atlante ca. 1550-80 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Paolo Farinati Two Atlantes ca. 1540-60 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Bartolomeo Montagna Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1515 oil on canvas Kunsthaus, Zürich |
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| Roman Empire Bacchus carrying the young Dionysus, accompanied by Satyrs AD 200-220 marble Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins |
from The Island of Statues
'Tis here the arrow fell: the breezes laughed
Around the feathery tip. Unto the shaft
This blossom is most near. Statue! Oh, thou
This blossom is most near. Statue! Oh, thou
Whose beard a moonlight river is, whose brow
Is stone: old sleeper! this same afternoon
O'er much I've talked: I shall be silent soon,
O'er much I've talked: I shall be silent soon,
If wrong my choice, as silent as thou art,
Oh! gracious Pan, take now thy servant's part.
He was our ancient god. If I speak low,
And not too clear, how will the new god know
But that I called on him?
– W.B. Yeats (1885)