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| Nicolò dell' Abate Cupid and Psyche ca. 1550-70 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Jacopo Zucchi Psyche and Sleeping Cupid 1589 oil on copper Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Il Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi) Allegory of Love ca. 1530 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Alessandro Allori Abduction of Proserpine 1570 oil on panel Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| workshop of Bonifazio Veronese Lot and his Daughters ca. 1550 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg |
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| Paris Bordone Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan (detail) ca. 1549-50 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
Sometime I fled the fire that me brent
By sea, by land, by water, and by wind,
And now I follow the coals that be quent
From Dover to Calais, against my mind.
Lo, how desire is both sprung and spent!
And he may see that whilom was so blind,
And all his labour now he laugh to scorn,
Meshed in the briers that erst was all to-torn.
– Sir Thomas Wyatt (published, 1559)
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| Giulio Romano and workshop Mars and Venus Bathing 1526-28 fresco Sala di Psiche, Palazzo Te, Mantua |
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| Agnolo Bronzino Pygmalion and Galatea ca. 1529-30 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Dosso Dossi Satyr and Nymph before 1542 oil on canvas Accademia di San Luca, Rome |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Temptation of Adam 1550 oil on canvas Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice |
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| Lattanzio Gambara Neptune and Caenis ca. 1560 fresco transferred to canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Titian Nymph and Shepherd ca. 1570-75 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Battista Franco after Michelangelo Noli me tangere ca. 1537 oil on panel Dayton Art Institute, Ohio |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Michelangelo Leda and the Swan after 1530 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Paolo Veronese Allegory of Love - Happy Union ca. 1570-75 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
Throughout the world, if it were sought,
Fair words enough a man shall find.
They be good cheap; they cost right naught;
Their substance is but only wind.
But well to say and so to mean –
That sweet accord is seldom seen.
– Sir Thomas Wyatt (published, 1557)