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| Christoffel Jegher after Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Emperor Charles V ca. 1631-33 chiaroscuro woodcut Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich |
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| Wilhelm von Kobell Return from the Hunt ca. 1820 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Lucas van Leyden Head of Warrior 1527 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Master of the Joseph Sequence Joseph and Asenath ca. 1490-1500 oil on panel Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Giovanni Battista Mercati St Catherine of Alexandria in Glory ca. 1620-40 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Crispijn de Passe the Elder Man and Woman weighing Gold ca. 1595 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Raffaellino del Garbo Virgin and Child with Musical Angels ca. 1496-98 oil and tempera on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Jean-Baptiste Regnault Sleeping Psyche and Cupid ca. 1775-85 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Theodor Rehbenitz Tobias and the Angel ca. 1824 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Augustin de Saint-Aubin Portrait of composer Jean-Philippe Rameau ca. 1760 etching Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg |
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| Martin Schongauer Lion of St Mark ca. 1470-90 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Battista Scultori after Giulio Romano Mars and Venus before 1575 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Luca Signorelli Head of a Young Man ca. 1490-1500 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Philipp von Stubenrauch Miniature Portrait of Young Woman and Man 1811 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Johan Wierix Portrait of a Man 1558 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| attributed to Johann Jakob Wirz Portrait of Andreas Meyer ca. 1750 drawing, with added watercolor Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
On the Two Homeric Poems – Homer, son of Meles, thou hast won eternal glory for Hellas and thy fatherland Colophon, and these two daughters didst thou beget by thy divine soul, writing from thy heart the twain tablets. The one sings the many wanderings of Odysseus in his homecoming, and the other the Trojan war.
On Homer – Who wrote on his pages the Trojan war, and who the long wanderings of the son of Laertes? I cannot be certain about his name or his city. Heavenly Zeus, can it be that Homer gets the glory of thine own poems?
On Homer – Of what country shall we record Homer to be a citizen, the man to whom all cities reach out their hands? Is it not the truth that this is unknown, but the hero, like an immortal, left as a heritage to the Muses the secret of his country and race?
On Homer – It was not the plain of Smyrna that gave birth to divine Homer; no, nor Colophon, the star of delicate Ionia; not Chios, nor fruitful Egypt, nor holy Cyprus, nor the rocky island that was the home of the son of Laertes, nor Argos, the land of Danaus and Cyclops-built Mycenae, nor the city of the ancient sons of Cecrops. No, he was not Earth's work, but the Muses sent him from the sky to bring desirable gifts to the creatures of a day.
On Homer – Some say, Homer, that thy name was Colophon, some lovely Smyrna, some Chios, some Ios; while some proclaim fortunate Salamis, and some Thessaly, mother of the Lapiths, some this place, some that, to be the land that brought thee to the birth. But if I may utter openly the wise prophecies of Phoebus, great Heaven is thy country, and thy mother was no mortal woman, but Calliope.
On Homer – Seven cities claim to be the root of Homer: Cyme, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, Pylos, Argos, Athens.
– from Book XVI (Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)