Zealous

Kristian Zahrtmann
St Catherine of Siena
1914
oil on canvas
Randers Kunstmuseum, Denmark

Heinrich Zille
Model Study and Bust of a Woman
1903
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anton Maria Zanetti after Parmigianino
Striding Youth pointing Forward
ca. 1721-26
chiaroscuro woodcut
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Francisco de Zurbarán
Portrait of Don Juan Bazo de Moreda
ca. 1655
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Johan Zoffany
Archduchess Maria Christine of Austria
1776
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Wladimir von Zabotin
Portrait of Sofie Herbst
ca. 1930
oil on cardboard
Kunsthalle Mannheim

Christian Friedrich Zincke
Miniature Portrait of a Gentleman
ca. 1720
enamel on copper
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Anders Zorn
Woman with Cigarette
1891
etching and drypoint
Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe,
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Taddeo Zuccaro
Saint in Clouds with Putti
ca. 1550
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Adrian Zingg
Landscape with Ruins
ca. 1780
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Domenico Bernardo Zilotti
Group of Trees
ca. 1760
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Domenico Zenoi
Prometheus
ca. 1560-80
engraving
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Januarius Zick
Moses striking the Rock
ca. 1750-60
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Johannes Zainer
The Story of Medusa
1473
hand-colored woodcut
(illustration to De Mulieribus Claris of Boccaccio)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Douwe Jan van der Zweep
Untitled
1924
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands

Ina van Zyl
This Rain
2017
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands

Callistratus dedicated to thee, Hermes, messenger of Zeus, this statue of a youth of like age with himself, the common image of thee and him.  The young man is of the deme of Cephissia.  Rejoicing in his gift, O Lord, protect the son of Apollodorus and his native place.

Here lies Hipponax, the maker of verse.  If thou art wicked, approach not the tomb, but if thou art good and comest of a good stock, sit thee down fearlessly, and if thou be so minded, fall asleep.

I pity thee, Aristoclides, first among all my valiant friends.  Thou didst lose thy young life, defending thy country from enslavement. 

Kings of Sparta were my fathers and brothers, and I Cynisca, winning the race with my chariot of swift-footed horses, erected this statue.  I assert that I am the only woman in all Greece who won this crown. 

Ho! passer by; even if thou art in haste give ear a moment to the grief of Botrys that passeth measure.  An old man now of four-score years, he buried his boy of nine, a child already speaking with some skill and wisdom.  Alas for thy father and alas for thee, dear son of Botrys; with how many joys untasted hast thou perished! 

Opis, giving glory to his fatherland, the holy city of Athena, offered this pleasant pipe, child of the black earth,* that he wrought by the help of Hephaestus, to Aphrodite, having been vanquished by love for beautiful Bryson. 

– from Book XIII (Epigrams in Various Metres) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)

*presumably made of silver