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| Anonymous French Artist Thomas André Marie Bouquerot de Voligny, député de la Nièvre au Conseil des Anciens ca. 1798-99 oil on canvas Musée de la Révolution Française, Vizille |
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| Girolamo Romanino Portrait of a Young Nobleman ca. 1520-25 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Joachim Martin Falbe Portrait of a Nobleman ca. 1745 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Joos van Cleve Portrait of a Man with a Rosary ca. 1518-20 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Philipp Kilian Portrait of Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony ca. 1680 engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg |
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| Jacques Bellange Balthasar ca. 1610 etching Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Jean-Étienne Liotard Portrait of Jean-Antoine Guainier-Gautier ca. 1765 pastel on vellum Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques, Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Alexis Grimou Portrait of a Man in Oriental Costume ca. 1720 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| workshop of Hyacinthe Rigaud Portrait of René-François de Beauvau du Rivau, Archbishop of Narbonne ca. 1730-40 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne |
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| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Portrait of Francesco di Borbone, future King of Naples 1790 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Sébastien Bourdon Portrait of a Man wearing Black Ribbons ca. 1657-58 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Frans Luyckx Portrait of an Officer before 1668 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Sebald Beham Standard Bearer 1526 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Virgil Solis Landsknecht before 1562 etching and engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau L'Indifférent 1716 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Victor Arimondi John K., Photographer 1983 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
We do worship to horned Pan, the walker on the crags, the leader of the Nymphs, who dwelleth in this house of rock, praying him to look with favour on all of us who came to this constant fountain and quenched our thirst.
Simple is this my dwelling (beside the big waves am I enthroned, the queen of the sea-bathed beach), but dear to me; for I delight in the sea, vast and terrible, and in the sailors who come to me for safety. Pay honour to Cypris, and either in thy love or on the gray sea I shall be a propitious gale to bear thee on.
This is the place of Cypris, for it is sweet to her to look ever from the land on the bright deep, that she may make the voyages of sailors happy; and around the sea trembles, looking on her polished image.
Weep for life, Heraclitus, much more than when thou didst live, for life is now more pitiable. Laugh now, Democritus, at life far more than before; the life of all is now more laughable. And I, too, looking at you, am puzzled as to how I am to weep with the one and laugh with the other.
Where is thy celebrated beauty, Doric Corinth? Where are the battlements of thy towers and thy ancient possessions? Where are the temples of the immortals, the houses and the matrons of the town of Sisyphus, and her myriads of people? Not even a trace is left of thee, most unhappy of towns, but war has seized on and devoured everything. We alone, the Nereids, Ocean's daughters, remain inviolate, and lament, like halcyons, thy sorrows.
I am the once famous city of Priam, which not the ten years' war of the Greeks succeeded in sacking by open force, but the cursed wooden horse. Would that Epeius had died ere he had wrought that wooden trap. For never then had the Greeks lit the fire that licked my roofs, never had I sunk down on my foundations.
– from Book IX (Declamatory and Descriptive Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)