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| Ancient Greek Sculptor Lion 325 BC marble Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Anonymous German Sculptor Lion 15th century bronze Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| attributed to Baccio Bandinelli Hercules and the Nemean Lion 1518 marble Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jean de Gourmont the Elder Samson and the Lion ca. 1530-40 engraving British Museum |
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| Bartholomäus Reiter St Corbinian and the Bear 1609 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| François Anguier Lion attacking Boar ca. 1661-63 marble tomb element Musée du Louvre |
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| Pietro da Cortona Daniel in the Lions' Den 1663-64 oil on canvas (altarpiece) Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Anonymous French Makers Basin with Lion Masks and Drunken Bacchus ca. 1680 maiolica Musée du Louvre |
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| Laurent Delvaux Samson vanquishing the Lion 1755 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Giuseppe Franchi Lion (one of pair carved in Rome, after antique Medici lions) ca. 1775-1800 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco Hayez Self Portrait with Tiger and Lion ca. 1830 oil on panel Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
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| Edward Poynter Egyptian Granite Lion at the British Museum ca. 1867 drawing British Museum |
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| Jean-Léon Gérôme Lion in the Desert ca. 1885 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Ludwig Hohlwein Munich Zoo (Leopard and Panther) 1912 lithograph (poster) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Cecilia Vicuña Black Panther and Me (ii) Bogotá 1978 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Thornton Dial The Longest Tail Tiger in the United States 1989 acrylic paint and rope on panel Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Tom Knechtel Lion devouring a Monkey 1995 drawing San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
Such expressions as: 'to subsist in bones and be but pyramidally extant' – 'sad and sepulchral pitchers which have no joyful voices' – 'predicament of chimaeras' – 'the irregularities of vain glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity' – are examples of this consummate mastery of language, examples of which, with a multitude of others, singly deserve whole hours of delicious gustation, whole days of absorbed and exquisite worship. It is pleasant to start out for a long walk with such a splendid phrase upon one's lips as: 'According to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven,' to go for miles and miles with the marvellous syllables still rich upon the inward ear, and to return home with them in triumph.
– Lytton Strachey on Sir Thomas Browne (1906)