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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Moses at the Well defending the Daughters of Jethro ca. 1655-57 oil on canvas Musée Magnin, Dijon |
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| Francesco Allegrini Scene from Roman History ca. 1660 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Michele Desubleo (Michele Fiammingo) Odysseus and Nausicaä ca. 1660 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Thomas Blanchet St Philip in Ecstasy after Baptizing the Eunuch 1663 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Pieter de Hooch Interior with Young Couple and Music-Makers ca. 1665 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Claude Lorrain The Meeting of Aeneas with Pallas, son of Evander 1671 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Caspar Netscher Sarah leading Hagar to Abraham 1673 oil on canvas Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Anonymous German Artist The Judgment of Paris ca. 1680 amber Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Godfried Schalcken Parable of the Lost Piece of Silver ca. 1680-85 oil on canvas Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Sebastiano Ricci Antiochus examined by his Physician in the presence of Seleucus and Stratonice (episode from Herodotus) ca. 1680-95 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Paolo de' Matteis Olindo and Sophronia rescued by Clorinda (scene from Gerusalemme Liberata of Tasso) ca. 1690-95 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Johann Michael Rottmayr Diana and Endymion ca. 1690-95 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Antonio Balestra Juno placing the Eyes of Argus into the Peacock's Tail ca. 1714 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Nicola Grassi Job mocked by his Wife ca. 1720 oil on canvas Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
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| Alessandro Magnasco Monastery Scene (Despoliation) ca. 1725 oil on panel Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania |
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| Filippo Falciatore An Assault by Pirates ca. 1735-40 oil on canvas Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
Then tooke they Ship againe for Morea, but passing along the Aegean Sea, they entred many Islands, seeking and finding adventures, but in one, being (though little) yet plentifull as a greater, delicately compassed with Snow white Rocks, yet mixt with small fine trees, whose greenenesse gave them hope to see, but pleasure gave them heart to goe into it; when they found it within such a place, as a Lover would have chosen to have passed his time in, and this did urge the foure Knights all amorous, and yet in severall kindes to expresse their passions severall waies.
Amphilanthus left the other three, taking the direct way to the heart of the Land, as ever ayming at that place, having the best, and most power continually over that part. Steriamus tooke on the right hand; Ollorandus to the left, but Dolorindus who never knew a difference of fortune (still having lived in a constant state of her displeasure) went away betweene them all, his thoughts (as ever in action) better being able to utter forth his passions being alone, which in this kinde he did: when he came into a dainty fine wood of straight high Oakes, and young Beeches, mingled with a fewe Ashes, and Chestnut trees; in the mid'st of the Wood was a Mount cast up by nature, and more delicate then Art could have fram'd it, though the cunningest had undertaken it, in the mid'st of it was a round Table of stone, and round about it Seats made of the same Stone, which was blacke Marble, some Letters, or rather characters he found, ingraven in the upper part of these seates, and on many of the Trees, which curiously incompassed it; and many Ciphers, although but one for meaning, though in number many; Lovers had done these as he thought; lovers made him remember he was one, and that oft he had carv'd his Mistresses name upon Bay trees, to shew her conquest, which shee had requited, cutting his name in Willowes, to demonstrate his fate. This afflicted him . . .
– from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, by the right honourable the Lady Mary Wroath, daughter to the right noble Robert, Earle of Leicester, and neece to the ever famous and renowned Sʳ Phillips Sidney knight, and to ye most excellant Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke, late deceased (London: John Marriott and John Grismand, 1621)