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| Master of the 1540s Portrait of a Man 1541 oil on panel Harvard Art Museums |
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| Judith Leyster Man offering Money to a Young Woman 1631 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Carlo Dolci Portrait of Fra Ainolfo de Bardi 1632 oil on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Leonaert Bramer Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist ca. 1635-40 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes |
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| Frans van Mieris the Elder Interior with Elderly Couple ca. 1650-55 oil on panel Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Ferdinand Bol Portrait of Otto van der Waeyen in Polish costume 1656 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Nicolaes Verkolje Portrait of David van Mollem with his Family 1740 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pierre Subleyras St Thomas Aquinas 1746 oil on canvas (sketch) Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Giuseppe Bazzani Departure of the Prodigal Son ca. 1750 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Johann Lucas Kracker St Andrew 1754 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Firmin Salabert Bathers ca. 1840 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gaillac |
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| Ferdinand Konrad Bellermann Source of Rio Tuy in Venezuela ca. 1842-45 oil on canvas Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Arnold Böcklin Sleeping Nymph watched by Two Fauns 1884 oil on canvas Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| Ernst Payer Grotesques ca. 1890 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Gustav Klimt Hope I 1903 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Francis Bacon Man in Blue I 1954 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
from The Mystery
I became a creature of light.
I sat in a driveway in California;
I sat in a driveway in California;
the roses were hydrant-color; a baby
rolled by in its yellow stroller, making
bubbling fishlike sounds.
I sat in a folding chair
reading Nero Wolfe for the twentieth time,
a mystery that has become restful.
I know who the innocent are; I have acquired in some measure
the genius of the master, in whose supple mind
time moves in two directions: backward
from the act to the motive
and forward to just resolution.
Fearless heart, never tremble again:
the only shadow is the narrow palm's
that cannot enclose you absolutely.
Not like the shadows of the east.
My life took me many places,
many of them very dark.
It took me without my volition,
pushing me from behind,
from one world to another, like
the fishlike baby.
– Louise Glück (1999)