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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Portrait of Claire Sennegon, niece of the artist 1837 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Samuel Palmer Illustration to Virgil's Eclogues - O Fortunate Old Man ca. 1874 drawing British Museum |
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| Kenneth Noland Day 1964 acrylic on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Roman Empire Flask with Obelisk 15 BC - AD 25 cast and blown cameo glass Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Portrait of Alexina Legoux, seamstress employed by Mme. Sennegon, dressmaker and sister of the artist ca. 1829-30 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Samuel Palmer Illustration to Virgil's Eclogues - Nymphs mourning Daphnis ca. 1876 drawing British Museum |
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| Kenneth Noland Dawn's Road 1970 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Roman Empire Flask 1st century AD molded mosaic glass Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Portrait of architect Toussaint Lemaistre 1833 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Samuel Palmer Illustration to Virgil's Eclogues - In a deep sleep Silenus there reclined ca. 1880 drawing British Museum |
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| Kenneth Noland Merry Hill 1970 acrylic on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Roman Empire Flask 1st century AD blown glass Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Jeune fille grecque à la fontaine ca. 1840 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Samuel Palmer Illustration to Virgil's Eclogues - Come, Fairest, if Thou care for Me at all ca. 1880 drawing British Museum |
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| Kenneth Noland Wild Indigo 1967 acrylic on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Roman Empire Alabastron 1st century BC - 1st century AD core-formed glass with gold inclusion (former Barberini collection, Rome) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Haydée, from Byron's Don Juan ca. 1825-30 oil on canvas Musée-du-Louvre |
The Philosopher and the Lover to a Mistress Dying
Lover. Your beauty, ripe and calm and fresh
As eastern summers are,
Must now, forsaking time and flesh,
Add light to some small star.
Philosopher. Whilst yet she lives, were stars decayed,
Their light by hers relief might find;
But death will lead her to a shade
Where love is cold and beauty blind.
Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are,
Think every mistress, when she dies,
Is changed at least into a star:
And who dares doubt the poets wise?
Philosopher. But ask not bodies doomed to die
To what abode they go;
Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy,
It is not safe to know.
– Sir William Davenant (1606-1668)