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| Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Cloister of San Francesco at Amalfi 1851 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Rudolf von Alt Cloister at Monreale in Sicily 1867 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Johann Christian Reinhart Waterfall inside Vaulted Ruins - Villa of Mecenate at Tivoli 1793 drawing (print study) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Johann Christian Reinhart Waterfall inside Vaulted Ruins - Villa of Mecenate at Tivoli 1793 etching British Museum |
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| Johann Heinrich Schmidt Waterfall at Tivoli ca. 1790 oil on canvas Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt |
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| Franz Edmund Weirotter View at Tivoli 1764 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur Antique Statues - Garden of Prince Mattei, Rome 1681 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur Antique Statues - Entrance to Borghese Gardens, Rome 1670 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Peter Joseph Krahe Entrance, Farnese Gardens, Palatine Hill, Rome ca. 1783-84 drawing, with added watercolor Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Johann Striedbeck the Younger Pallas Athena in the Roman Forum ca. 1690 etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Wilhelm Kandler Forum of Nerva, Rome ca. 1880 oil on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Louis Kolitz Two Churches in Rome - Santa Maria della Vittoria and Santa Susanna ca. 1892 oil on paper, mounted on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Louis Kolitz Trevi Fountain, Rome ca. 1892 oil on paper, mounted on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Johann Heinrich Roos Ruinous Relief Panel in Italianate Landscape ca. 1660 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Anonymous German Artist Ruined Aqueduct, Roman Campagna 19th century watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Johann Heinrich Ramberg Roman Carnival Scene ca. 1781-88 watercolor on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
Small am I, the barrow of Priam the hero, not that I am worthy of such a man, but because I was built by the hands of his foes.
Do not judge Hector by his tomb or measure by his barrow the adversary of all Hellas. The Iliad, Homer himself, Greece, the Achaeans in flight – these are my tomb – by these all was my barrow built. (If the earth you see above me is little, it is no disgrace to me, I was entombed by the hands of my foes the Greeks.)
Hector, constant theme of Homer's books, strongest bulwark of the god-built wall, Homer rested at thy death and with that the pages of the Iliad were silenced.
With Hector perished Troy and no longer raised her hand to resist the attack of the Danai. And Pella, too, perished with Alexander. So fatherlands glory in men, their sons, not men in their fatherlands.
Tell, O column, the parentage of him beneath thee and his name and country and by what death he died. "His father was Priam, his country Ilion, his name Hector, and he perished fighting for his native land."
O Thessalian Protesilaus, long ages shall sing of thee, how thou didst strike the first blow in Troy's predestined fall. The Nymphs tend and encircle with overshadowing elms thy tomb opposite hated Ilion. Wrathful are the trees, and if they chance to see the walls of Troy, they shed their withered leaves. How bitter was the hatred of the heroes if a part of their enmity lives yet in soulless branches.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)