| Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Bust of Faustina before 1527 bronze, partly gilt (from the Gonzaga Collection in Mantua) Musée du Louvre |
| Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Bust of Faustina before 1527 bronze, partly gilt (from the Gonzaga Collection in Mantua) Musée du Louvre |
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| Roman Empire Head of Youth AD 220-30 marble Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
| Anonymous Italian Artist Scipio ca. 1475 marble relief Musée du Louvre |
| Pierre Julien Dying Gladiator 1779 marble (reception piece) Musée du Louvre |
| Louis-Pierre Deseine Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena 1791 marble Musée du Louvre |
| Anonymous Spanish Artist Gunpowder Flask with Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena ca. 1540-60 gilt copper Musée du Louvre |
| Anonymous Italian Artist Bust of Augustus 17th century bronze, partly gilt Musée du Louvre |
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| Roman Empire Head of Man AD 220-30 marble Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Roman Empire Youth AD 190-200 marble Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Pietro Bernini Bust of Emperor Lucius Verus before 1629 marble Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Roman General 17th century marble Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Roman General 17th century marble Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
| Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Bust of Emperor Antoninus Pius before 1527 bronze, partly gilt (from the Gonzaga Collection in Mantua) Musée du Louvre |
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| Nikolaus Knüpfer Roman Matrons supplicating Coriolanus ca. 1646 drawing British Museum |
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| Johann Heinrich Ramberg Family Members beseeching Coriolanus for Peace 1813 drawing British Museum |
Who Goes with Fergus?
Who will go drive with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's woven shade,
And dance upon the level shore?
Young man, lift up your russet brow,
And lift your tender eyelids, maid,
And brood on hopes and fear no more.
And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love's bitter mystery;
For Fergus rules the brazen cars,
And rules the shadows of the wood,
And the white breast of the dim sea
And all dishevelled wandering stars.
– William Butler Yeats (1892)







