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| Károly Markó the Elder Temple in the Forest ca. 1820 watercolor and gouache on paper Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Joseph Anton Koch Arcadian Landscape 1792 watercolor and gouache on paper Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Camille Pissarro Apple Trees and Poplars, Éragny 1901 oil on canvas Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre |
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| Gherardo Cibo Coastal Landscape ca. 1590 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Hubert Robert Terrace in an Italian Garden ca. 1760 drawing Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Wilhelm Barth Terraces at Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam ca. 1830 gouache on paper Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz Mountain Landscape 1831 oil on canvas Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen |
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| Jan Brueghel the Younger and workshop of Hendrik van Balen The Four Elements ca. 1620-25 oil on panel Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève |
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| Louis Eysen Track through Fields near Kronberg in Taunus 1877 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Theodor von Hörmann Summer in the Garden, Znojmo ca. 1893 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Jean-Pierre Norblin Fête galante 1779 oil on panel National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Felix Albrecht Harta Jardin du Luxembourg 1908 oil on board Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| workshop of Paul Bril Landscape with St Francis ca. 1590 oil on copper Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Jens Hauge Untitled (Treehouse) 2004 gelatin silver print Sogn-og-Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Henri Loubat The Mower 1909 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gaillac |
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| Mette Tronvoll Matthew, Müritz National Park 2000 C-print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
King, destroyer of the world, they set up this iron statue of thee as being much less precious than bronze, in return for the bloodshed, the fatal poverty and famine and wrath, by which thou destroyest all things owing to thy avarice.
Tell me, I ask you, Hermes, how did the soul of Lollianus go down to the house of Persephone? If in silence, it was a marvel, and very likely he wanted to teach you also something. Heavens, to think of meeting that man even when one is dead!
Thou speakest much, O man, but in a little thou shalt be laid on the ground. Silence! and while thou yet livest get into practice for death.
Farewell ye whose eyes ever range over the universe, and ye thorn-gathering book-worms of Aristarchus' school. What serves it me to enquire what path the Sun has run, and whose son was Proteus and who Pygmalion? Let me know works whose lines are clear, but let dark lore waste away the devotees of Supercallimachuses.
Tell me whence comes it that thou measurest the Universe and the limits of the Earth, thou who bearest a little body made of a little earth? Count thyself first and know thyself, and then shalt thou count this infinite Earth. And if thou canst not reckon thy body's little store of clay, how canst thou know the measures of the immeasurable?
You have a face just like an ostrich. Did Circe give you a potion to drink and change your nature into that of a bird?
I sneezed near a tomb and wished to hear of what I hoped, the death of my wife. I sneezed to the winds, but my wife meets with none of the misfortunes of mankind, neither illness nor death.
– from Book XI (Convivial and Satirical Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)