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| Anonymous Lombard Artist Head of a Roman Emperor ca. 1500 tempera on panel (originally an ornamental ceiling component) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Lombard Artist Head of a Roman Emperor ca. 1500 tempera on panel (originally an ornamental ceiling component) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Head of a Roman Emperor ca. 1550 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Richard Cockle Lucas Classical Head and Winged Deity ca. 1840-65 ivory plaque Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Daniel Somerville Classical Head 1820 woodcut Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| John Singer Sargent Head Studies for Apollo and the Muses ca. 1921 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Head of a Satyr ca. 1575-80 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Alphonse Legros Head of a Satyr (Fountain) 1883 etching Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Stanislaus Brien Pan 1928 linocut Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Satyr ca. 1560 bronze Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Hubert von Herkomer Bacchante 1897 enamel on copper Yale Center for British Art |
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| Girolamo della Robbia Bust of a Roman ca. 1525 glazed terracotta Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Domenico di Polo de' Vetri Cosimo I de' Medici, 2nd Duke of Florence 1537 bronze medallion (Cosimo was Duke of Florence 1537-1569 as well as Grand Duke of Tuscany 1569-1574) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Francesco di Giovanni Ferrucci (called Francesco del Tadda) Cosimo I de' Medici, 2nd Duke of Florence and Grand Duke of Tuscany 1570 porphyry set in serpentine with marble surround (Cosimo was Duke of Florence 1537-1569 as well as Grand Duke of Tuscany 1569-1574) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Giovanni da Cavino Head of Cosimo Scapti ca. 1540 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Agostino Carracci Head of Wind God ca. 1597-99 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
"Why do you live in that shack?"
"It doesn't matter to me where I work. I've told you. All I want is peace of mind. I'm studious."
"Scholarly," said the inspector dreamily.
"No, studious. I can afford to study and speculate without achieving results."
– Muriel Spark, from The Only Problem (1984)