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| François Fontaine Beautiful Company 1981 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Girolamo Miruoli Intervention of the Sabine Women ca. 1570 detached fresco Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Hugo Birger Scandinavian Artists' Luncheon at Café Ledoyen, Paris 1886 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Jules-Alexandre Grün Friday Gathering at the Salon 1911 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek (wing of triptych) ca. 1510-20 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pellegrino Tibaldi Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1550 oil on panel Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Marx Reichlich The Last Judgment ca. 1490 tempera and oil on panel Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Grace Hartigan #29 Pastorale 1953 screenprint Dayton Art Institute, Ohio |
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| Clara Peeters Flowers in a Basket and on a Silver Tazza ca. 1615 oil on panel Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Francesco Solimena Boreas abducting Oreithyia ca. 1727-28 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Maerten de Vos Temptation of St Anthony 1594 oil on panel Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Henri Cueco Capturing the Rhinoceros 1970 acrylic and lacquer on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Jean-Philippe Charbonnier La Bibliothèque Municipale, Issoudun 1951 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Anton Faistauer Still Life with Coffee Cups 1912 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Lyubov Popova Portrait of a Woman (Relief) 1915 oil on paper, mounted on panel Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Maurice Prendergast The Merry-Go-Round ca. 1902-1906 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
Read: the twenty-four books of Antonius Diogenes' romance The Wonder Beyond Thule. Its narrative is uncluttered and so pure that there is no lack of clarity even in the digressions. It is most agreeable in the ideas that it expresses because, though verging on the mythical and the incredible, it is altogether credible in the contrivance and elaboration of its episodes.
The story, then, opens with Dinias, who along with his son Demochares has wandered from his homeland in search of information. After passing over the Black Sea and away from the Caspian, or Hyrcanian Sea, they reached what are called the Rhipaean Mountains and the source of the river Tanais. There, because of the extreme cold, they turned back towards the Scythian Sea and then struck out in the direction of the east to the quarter of the rising sun, skirting the exterior sea for a long time in complicated wanderings.
– Antonius Diogenes, from The Wonders Beyond Thule, written in Greek, 1st-2nd century AD. A detailed summary of the book was composed (also in Greek) in the 9th century by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople. The original text by Antonius Diogenes was subsequently lost; only the summary by Photius has survived. This was translated into English by Gerald N. Sandy (1989).