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| Anonymous Artist Champa Street at Night, Denver, Colorado ca. 1913 halftone print (postcard) Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Pierre-Gaston Rigaud Moonlight ca. 1910 oil paint and pastel on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Donato Creti Astronomical Observation - Venus 1711 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
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| Caspar David Friedrich Shore in Moonlight ca. 1835-36 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Edvard Munch Moonlight 1895 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Abraham Bosse after Claude Vignon Group with Torches in a Boat at Night 1639 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Jean Jouvenet Last Supper ca. 1705 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Frans Francken the Younger Christ and Nicodemus ca. 1610 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Daniele Crespi Dream of St Joseph ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Oswald Achenbach Night Festival near Florence 1889 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Anonymous German Artist The Great Comet of 1664-65 1665 engraving Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Anonymous German Artist Dark Moon and Pair of Comets 1540 hand-colored woodcut and letterpress (broadside) Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Valentin Schönig Arrival of a Comet 1577 hand-colored woodcut and letterpress (broadside) Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Johan Christian Dahl View of Dresden in Moonlight 1839 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Axel Fridell By Lamplight 1928 drypoint Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| James Heath after Henry Fuseli Shade of Patroclus beseeching Achilles for Burial ca. 1820-30 etching Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
The stranger is Zoilus of Hermione, but he lies buried in a foreign land, clothed in this Argive earth, which his deep-bosomed wife, her cheeks bedewed with tears, and his children, their hair close cut, heaped on him.
The stranger was brief; so shall the verse be. I will not tell a long story. "Theris, Aristaeus' son, a Cretan." – For me it is too long.
The tomb is that of Protalidas of Lycastus who was supreme in love, war, the chase and the dance. Ye judges of the underworld, yourselves Cretans, ye have taken the Cretan to your company.
Love gave to Protalides success in his pursuit of his boy-loves, Artemis in the chase, the Muse in the dance, and Ares in war. Must we not call him blest, the Lycastian supreme in love and song, with the spear and the hunting-net.
Here Philippus laid his twelve-year-old son, Nicoteles, his great hope.
On Phrygian Aeschra, his good nurse, did Miccus while she lived besow every comfort that soothes old age, and when she died he erected her statue, that future generations may see how he rewarded the old woman for her milk.
Hail, earth, mother of all! Aesigenes was never a burden to thee, and do thou too hold him without weighing heavy on him.
Of a surety, Aretemias, when descending from the boat thou didst set thy foot on the beach of Cocytus, carrying in thy young arms thy babe newly dead, the fair daughters of the Dorian land pitied thee in Hades and questioned thee concerning thy death; and thou, thy cheeks bedewed with tears, didst give them these mournful tidings: "My dears, I brought forth twin children; one I left with Euphron my husband, and the other I bring to the dead."
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)