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| Pierre-Joseph Verhaghen The Continence of Scipio 1781 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| François-André Vincent Arria and Paetus 1784 oil on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Alessandro Alberganti Scene of Plague called down from Heaven by David 1786 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Jean-Jacques Lagrenée Odysseus arriving at Circe's Palace 1787 oil on canvas Musée de Picardie, Amiens |
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| Jacques-Augustin Pajou The dying Geta in his Mother's arms assassinated by order of his brother Caracalla 1788 oil on canvas Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
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| Giuseppe Mazzola The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis 1789 oil on panel Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Louis Gauffier La Générosité des Dames Romaines 1790 oil on canvas Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers |
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| Angelica Kauffmann Praxiteles offering Phryne his statue of Cupid 1794 oil on canvas Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Pierre-Nicolas Legrand A Good Deed is Never Forgotten (aristocrat returning to prison to thank jailer who treated him well during the Terror) 1794-95 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Joseph-Marie Vien Pulling Down the Statue of a Tyrant (imaginary scene from Antiquity) 1795 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Franz Anton Maulbertsch Coriolanus at the Gates of Rome ca. 1795 oil on canvas (sketch) National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Jean-Baptiste Mallet Visit to the Wet Nurse ca. 1795-96 gouache on paper Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Johann Heinrich Ramberg Ball Game in Rome 1797 drawing, with added watercolor Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Felice Giani Death of Phocion ca. 1798 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Achilles receiving the Envoys of Agamemnon 1801 oil on canvas Musée de l'École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
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| Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret Presentation in 1506 of the Laocoön to Pope Julius II 1806 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
"The first time I was in Rome when I was very young the Pope was told about the discovery of some very beautiful statues in a vineyard near Santa Maria Maggiore. The pope ordered one of his officers to run and tell Giuliano da Sangallo to go and see them. He set off immediately. Since Michelangelo Buonarroti was always to be found at our house, my father having summoned him and having assigned him the commission of the Pope's tomb, my father wanted him to come along too. I joined them and off we went. I had climbed down to where the statues were, when immediately my father said, "That is the Laocoön, which Pliny mentions." Then they dug the hole wider so that they could pull the statue out. As soon as it was visible everyone started to draw, all the while discoursing on ancient things."
– from a letter by Francesco da Sangallo, quoted by Leonard Barkan in Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aestheticism in the making of Renaissance Culture (Yale University Press, 1999)