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| Vilhelm Hammershøi Interior 1904 oil on canvas Randers Kunstmuseum, Denmark |
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| Jan Gossaert Portrait of a Man ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ferdinand Dorsch Portrait of a Girl 1916 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Carolus-Duran Léonie Dufresne, baronne le Vavasseur 1875 oil on canvas Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1525 oil on panel Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Karl Christian Andreae Portrait of Amalie Hassenpflug 1848 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Hans Gjesme Portrait 1925 pastel on paper Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Girolamo da Carpi Portrait of a Man ca. 1545 oil on panel Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Gustave Courtois Woman before an Art Nouveau Door ca. 1894 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Kerstin Bernhard Dancer Albert Mol 1947 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Alexandre Cabanal Comtesse Victoire de Clermont-Tonnerre 1863 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Portrait of controversialist Philipp Melanchthon 1543 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Hans Holbein the Younger Portrait of Roelof de Vos van Steenwijk 1541 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Johann Peter Krafft Portrait of Florentina Troclet-Fautz 1815 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Michael Kvium Abstract Me 1994 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Alfred-Émile-Léopold Stevens In the Boudoir ca. 1880 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
Charikleia was astounded by this turn of events but was nonetheless eager for death. She leapt from one part of the blaze to another, but it was in vain, for the fire always drew back and seemed to retreat before her onset. The executioners did not let up but redoubled their efforts, encouraged by threatening signs from Arsake, hurling on logs and piling on reeds from the river, fueling the flames by whatever means they could but all to no avail. The city was now in even greater uproar; this deliverance seemed to show the hand of god. "She is innocent," they yelled. "She has done nothing wrong!" The crowd surged forward and tried to drive the executioners away from the pyre. Their leader was Thyamis, who had joined them after being alerted to what was happening by the deafening tumult. He tried to embolden the people to go to Charikleia's assistance; but for all their eagerness to rescue her they did not have the courage to approach the fire, but instead urged the girl to leap out of the flames: anyone who could stand unscathed in the blaze had nothing to fear if she decided to come out.
– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)