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| Francesco Mochi Defeated Heretic ca. 1625 gilt bronze Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Francesco Mochi Defeated Heretic ca. 1625 gilt bronze Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Hans Ludwig Kienle Horse and Rider 1630 silver and silver gilt Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anonymous French Makers Keyhole Escutcheon ca. 1740 gilt bronze Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Makers Keyhole Escutcheon with Griffins ca. 1800-1810 gilt bronze Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Makers Goddess pouring from Ewer ca. 1805 gilt bronze furniture mount Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Makers Antique Figure walking into Wind ca. 1810 gilt bronze furniture mount Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Makers Winged Goddess ca. 1810 gilt bronze furniture mount Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Makers Charioteer ca. 1815 gilt bronze furniture mount Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Paul Storr Ceremonial Cup with Cover 1834 silver gilt Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto |
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| Jean-Léon Gérôme Napoleon entering Cairo ca. 1900 gilt bronze and wood statuette Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Raymond Duchamp-Villon Very Small Horse 1914 gilt bronze Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Paul Manship Actaeon 1925 gilt bronze Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Paul Manship Eurydice ca. 1930 gilt bronze on lapis lazuli base Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Marcel Bouraine Lamp with Undersea Motif ca. 1930 gilt bronze and onyx Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Alberto Giacometti Small Standing Woman ca. 1945 gilt bronze Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas |
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| Louise Bourgeois Untitled (Fingers) 1986 bronze (partly gilt) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
The Oracles
'Tis mute, the word they went to hear on high Dodona mountain
When winds were in the oakenshaws and all the cauldrons tolled,
And mute's the midland navel-stone beside the singing fountain,
And echoes list to silence now where gods told lies of old.
I took my question to the shrine that has not ceased from speaking,
The heart within, that tells the truth and tells it twice as plain;
And from the cave of oracles I heard the priestess shrieking
That she and I should surely die and never live again.
Oh priestess, what you cry is clear, and sound good sense I think it;
But let the screaming echoes rest, and froth your mouth no more.
'Tis true there's better booze than brine, but he that drowns must drink it;
And oh, my lass, the news is news that men have heard before.
The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
And he that stands will die for nought, and home there's no returning.
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.
– A.E. Housman (1922)