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| Guido Reni Christ crowned with Thorns ca. 1639-40 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Jacob Wilhelm Christian Roux after Friedrich Tiedemann Arteries of the Head 1822 lithograph (book illustration) Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg |
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| Joseph-Marie Vien Académie 1767 oil on canvas (made in Rome) Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Andrea Casali Lucretia ca. 1735-45 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Agostino Carracci Penitent Magdalen ca. 1581 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Frank Samuel Eastman Half-Length Study of a Model ca. 1910 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Hendrik Goltzius St John the Evangelist 1589 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Nicolas van Haften Heraclitus, the Weeping Philosopher 1702 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Wolfgang Philipp Kilian Portrait of humanist Conradus Celtis ca. 1700 etching and engraving Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig |
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| Adolph Menzel Study of Young Woman 1893 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Albert Theer Portrait of Johanna Weissenthurn as Medea 1843 gouache on paper (miniature) Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Mary Magdalen ca. 1560 oil on canvas Museo Civico di Modena |
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| Fede Galizia St Catherine of Alexandria ca. 1620 oil on panel Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Elisabetta Sirani Virgin and Child 1663 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Tanzio da Varallo St Francis ca. 1630 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jusepe de Ribera St Mary of Egypt 1641 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
On a Painting of Andromeda – The land is Ethiopia; he with the winged sandals is Perseus; she who is chained to the rock is Andromeda; the face is the Gorgon's, whose glance turns men to stone; the sea-monster is the task set by Love; she who boasted of her child's beauty is Cassiopeia. Andromeda releases from the rock her feet inured to numbness and dead, and her suitor carries off the bride his prize.
On a Painting of Andromeda – Did Cepheus or the painter expose Andromeda on the rocks, for the judgment of the eye is indecisive? And was the monster drawn as we see it on the curving crag, or did it rise out of the neighbouring sea? I see: a skilled man made these things; he was indeed clever thus to deceive our eyes and our wits.
On a Picture of Helen – This is the lovely form of Argive Helen, whom of old the cowherd carried away, spurning Zeus who protects host and guest.
On a Painting of Dido – Thou seest, O stranger, the exact likeness of far-famed Dido, a portrait shining with divine beauty. Even so I was, but had not such a character as thou hearest, having gained glory rather for reputable things. For neither did I ever set eyes on Aeneas nor did I reach Libya at the time of the sack of Troy, but to escape a forced marriage with Iarbas I plunged the two-edged sword into my heart. Ye Muses, why did ye arm chaste Virgil against me to slander thus falsely my virtue?
On a Statue of Echo – Tongueless Echo sings in the shepherd's meadow, her voice taking up and responding to the notes of the birds.
On a Statue of Echo – The Echo of the rocks thou seest, my friend, the companion of Pan, singing back to us a responsive note, the garrulous counterfeit of every kind of tongue, the shepherds' sweet toy. After hearing every word thou utterest, begone.
– from Book XVI (Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)