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| Quentin Metsys Portrait of Jacob Obrecht 1496 tempera and oil on panel Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| attributed to Pietro Perugino Christ crowned with Thorns ca. 1500-1505 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Giorgione Portrait of a Venetian Senator before 1510 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Dosso Dossi Personification of Astronomy ca. 1520-22 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara |
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| Pieter de Witte (Pietro Candido) Daughter of Jephthah ca. 1600-1615 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Filippo Vitale St Benedict of Nursia in Penitence upon Thorns ca. 1630 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
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| Jan Steen The Supper at Emmaus ca. 1665-66 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Caspar Netscher Portrait of Pieter Six 1677 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Alessandro Magnasco Three Capuchin Monks in Ecstatic Prayer ca. 1710-35 oil on canvas Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Jean-François Millet Les Errants ca. 1860 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
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| Albert Pinkham Ryder The River ca. 1884-94 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1890 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Gwen John The Friends ca. 1898-99 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Georges Rouault Torso ca. 1905 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Vilhelm Hammershøi Balcony Room at Spurveskjul 1911 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Steven Campbell Ding-Dong ca. 1980-90 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
from Movements
I want that height and prospect such as music
Brings one to – music or memory,
Brings one to – music or memory,
When memory gains ground drowned-out
By years. I want the voyage of recovery,
The wind-torn eyrie and the mast-top
Sight of the horizon island,
Look-out tower compounded from pure sound:
Trough on trough, valley after valley
Opens across the waves, between the dancing
Leaves of the tree of time, and the broken chords
Space a footing for melody, borne-out above
The haven of its still begetting, the hill
Of its sudden capture, not disembodied
But an incarnation heard, a bird-flight
Shared, thrust and tendon and the answering air.
– Charles Tomlinson (1972)