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| Nicolas Beatrizet after Francesco Salviati Sacrifice of Iphigenia ca. 1553-55 engraving British Museum |
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| Gillis Coignet Diana and Callisto ca. 1575 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Paolo Veronese St Anthony of Padua preaching to the Fish ca. 1580 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| attributed to Nicolas Bollery The Actors ca. 1590 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
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| Master of the Egmont Albums Battle of Tritons ca. 1590-95 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Joachim Wtewael Cephalus and Procris ca. 1595-1600 oil on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Tarquin and Lucretia 17th century oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Francesco Villamena The Quarrel 1601 engraving Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Alessandro Allori St Giovanni Gualberto and the Miracle of the Grain 1603 oil on canvas (altarpiece) Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Hermes presenting Pandora to King Epimetheus (episode from Hesiod) 1611 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Giovanni Lanfranco Rinaldo abandoning Armida (scene from Gerusalemme Liberata of Torquato Tasso) 1614 oil on canvas Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Ixion, King of the Lapiths, deceived by Juno 1615 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Jacob Jordaens Atalanta and Meleager ca. 1617-18 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri Joseph interpreting Dreams in Prison ca. 1618 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| François Perrier Looting of a Classical City ca. 1620 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Nicolas Tournier Tobias taking Leave of his Family ca. 1620 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
But as the rarest Jewell is not to be had but at the highest rate: so her peerelesse perfections must have all this businesse to gaine her; but now she is wonne, and he almost lost, not daring to thinke so, or ventring to winne it: He would with his eyes tell her his heart, with kissing her delicate hand, with a more than usuall affection, let her feele his soule was hers: She found it, and understood what hee would have her understand, nay, shee would answer his lookes with as amorous ones of her part, as straightly, and lovingly would she hold his hand, but knowing modesty forbid, shee would sigh, and in her soule wish that he would once speake; but bashfulnesse with-held him, and woman modestie kept her silent; till one afternoon, walking into a most curious and dainty Garden, where all manner of sweets were ready in their kind to entertaine them; Flowers of all sorts for smell and colour; Trees of all kinds of fruits, and walkes divided for most delight, many Birds singing, and with their notes welcomming them to that place: At last, a payre of innocent white Turtles came before them, in their fashion wooing each other, and so wonne, enjoying their game in billing, and such like pretty joy.
– from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, by the right honourable the Lady Mary Wroath, daughter to the right noble Robert, Earle of Leicester, and neece to the ever famous and renowned Sʳ Phillips Sidney knight, and to ye most excellant Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke, late deceased (London: John Marriott and John Grismand, 1621)