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| Rome Drusus Major ca. AD 20 glass cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Demetrius of Phalerum ca. 100 BC - AD 100 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Livia Drusilla with bust of Augustus ca. AD 14-29 sardonyx cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
"For before the historian can try to make valid use of a visual source, however undemanding, however simple, he has to know what he is looking at, whether it is authentic, when and for what purpose it was made, even whether it was considered to be beautiful. He also has to have some awareness of the circumstances, conventions and constraints that always govern what can be represented in art at any given time and of the technical means that are available to the figurative artist for expressing his vision."
– Francis Haskell, History and its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past (Yale University Press, 1993)
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| Rome Augustus 1st century AD marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Socrates ca. 50-25 BC carnelian intaglio Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Aristotle 1st-2nd century AD marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Claudius ca. AD 41-54 chalcedony cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Julia the Elder ca. 2 BC marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Caracalla ca. AD 211-217 aquamarine intaglio Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Commodus ca. AD 180-192 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Antinoüs ca. AD 135-137 bronze coin from Stratonikeia-Hadrianopolis Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Hadrian ca. AD 117 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Gemma Claudia (Claudius, Agrippina the Younger, Germanicus, Agrippina the Elder) AD 49 onyx cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Rome Julia Mamaea ca. AD 222-235 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |