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| Pietro Bernini Marcus Curtius casting himself into the Chasm fragment of antique horse, 2nd century AD, extended and supplied with new rider, 1617 marble Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Sebastiano Venier, Commander at Lepanto ca. 1571-72 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Helen Verhoeven Soldiers from a Calvary Scene 2017 acrylic on linen Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht |
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| Constantin Guys Old Soldiers of the Empire ca. 1856 drawing, with watercolor Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Warrior ca. 1770 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini The wounded Porus before Alexander the Great ca. 1708-1710 drawing Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Master of the Egmont Albums Battle Scene ca. 1590-95 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Bartholomeus Spranger Minerva ca. 1590-95 drawing, with watercolor Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Sèvres Manufactory Catherine the Great as Minerva 1906 (after model of ca. 1780) porcelain Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pietro della Vecchia Soldier from the front ca. 1668-78 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara |
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| Pietro della Vecchia Soldier from the back ca. 1668-78 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara |
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| Giorgio de Chirico Achilles on the Shore of the Aegean Sea ca. 1952 oil on canvas Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins |
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| workshop of Jacques-Louis David Roman Warrior 1824 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Martino Altomonte Study of Roman Soldiers ca. 1690 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Hyacinthe Rigaud Portrait of Man in Armour ca. 1710 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Roman Empire Helmet 3rd century AD bronze Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins |
from The Shadowy Waters
All would be well
Could we but give us wholly to the dreams,
And get into their world that to the sense
Is shadow, and not linger wretchedly
Among substantial things; for it is dreams
that lift us to the flowing, changing world
that lift us to the flowing, changing world
That the heart longs for. What is love itself,
Even though it be the lightest of light love,
But dreams that hurry from beyond the world
To make low laughter more than meat and drink,
Though it but set us sighing? Fellow-wanderer,
Could we but mix ourselves into a dream,
Not in its image on the mirror!
– W.B. Yeats (1906)