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| Giulio Bonasone Woman Painting, inspired by Apollo ca. 1545 engraving Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist Self Portrait 1786 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Louis Lafitte Ancient Greek Art Studio 1796 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Domenico Pellegrini Emperor Charles V retrieving the dropped brush of Titian 1820 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Anonymous German Artist The Studio ca. 1830 oil on panel Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Louis Janmot Self Portrait 1832 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Jurij Šubic Painter Gabriel Desrivières with his Mother in the Studio 1882 oil on canvas National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana |
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| Claudius Peyrache Copyist painting at an Easel in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon 1885 etching Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| William Strang Death and the Artist 1901 chiaroscuro woodcut Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| John Covert Model and Painter ca. 1916-23 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The Painter (Self Portrait) 1920 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| George Barbier Le Modèle Intéressant 1925 lithograph and pochoir Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Greta Freist The Painter's Family ca. 1938 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Harry Lips Self Portrait with Mirror in the Studio 1943 oil on canvas Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht |
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| Giacomo Manzù Artist and Model 1958 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Kent Monkman Artist and Model 2012 acrylic on canvas Denver Art Museum |
The Saint and the Hunchback
Hunchback. Stand up and lift your hand and bless
A man that finds great bitterness
In thinking of his lost renown.
A Roman Caesar is held down
Under this hump.
A man that finds great bitterness
In thinking of his lost renown.
A Roman Caesar is held down
Under this hump.
Saint. God tries each man
According to a different plan.
I shall not cease to bless because
I lay about me with the taws
That night and morning I may thrash
Greek Alexander from my flesh,
Augustus Caesar, and after these
That great rogue Alcibiades.
Hunchback. To all that in your flesh have stood
And blessed, I give my gratitude,
Honoured by all in their degrees,
But most to Alcibiades.
According to a different plan.
I shall not cease to bless because
I lay about me with the taws
That night and morning I may thrash
Greek Alexander from my flesh,
Augustus Caesar, and after these
That great rogue Alcibiades.
Hunchback. To all that in your flesh have stood
And blessed, I give my gratitude,
Honoured by all in their degrees,
But most to Alcibiades.
– W.B. Yeats (1919)