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| Simon Vouet Angel with Lance of the Passion ca. 1615-25 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Giovanni Giuliani Wall Sconce with Angel and Putto ca. 1695 painted wood Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Michelangelo Angels of the Last Judgment 16th century drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Guardian Angel ca. 1500 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Girolamo Imperiale Guardian Angel 1622 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Albrecht Dürer Sudarium supported by Angels 1513 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Martin Schongauer Shield with Lion held by Angel ca. 1470-80 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Agostino Mitelli Design for Angel as Ornament before 1718 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Georg Lemberger Angel imprisoning Satan 1524 hand-colored woodcut (illustration to the "Luther" Bible) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Francisco de Zurbarán Archangel Gabriel ca. 1631-32 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Giovanni Balducci Three Angels appearing to Abraham ca. 1590 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Pietro Testa Angel ca. 1645-46 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy with Angels ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Adam Elsheimer Tobias and the Angel ca. 1607-1608 oil on copper Historisches Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Barent Fabritius Tobias and the Angel 1660 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes |
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| Simone Cantarini (il Pesarese) Hagar and the Angel ca. 1645 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
I announce the name of Timocles and look round in every direction over the salt sea, wondering where his corpse may be. Alas! the fishes have devoured him ere this, and I, this useless stone, bear this idle writing carved on me.
The Peloponnesus and the perilous sea of Crete and the blind cliffs of Cape Malea when he was turning it were fatal to Astydamas son of Damis the Cydonian. Ere this he has gorged the bellies of sea monsters. But on the land they raised me, his lying tomb. What wonder! Since "Cretans are liars" and even Zeus has a tomb there.
The fishermen brought up from the sea in their net a half-eaten man, a most mournful relic of some sea-voyage. They sought not for unholy gain, but him and the fishes too they buried under this light coat of sand. Thou hast, O land, the whole of the shipwrecked man, but instead of the rest of his flesh thou hast the fishes who fed on it.
Who art thou, shipwrecked stranger? Leontichus found thee here dead on the beach, and buried thee in this tomb, weeping for his own uncertain life; for he also rests not, but travels over the sea like a gull.
Not even now I am dead shall I, shipwrecked Theris, cast up on land by the waves, forget the sleepless surges. For here under the brine-beaten hill, near the sea my foe, a stranger made my grave; and, ever wretched that I am, even among the dead the hateful roar of the billows sounds in my ears. Not even Hades gave me rest from trouble, since I alone even in death cannot lie in unbroken repose.
Cease to paint ever on this tomb oars and the beaks of ships over my cold ashes. The tomb is a shipwrecked man's. Why wouldst thou remind him who is under the earth of his disfigurement by the waves?
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)