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| Johann Baptist Cordua Vanitas Still Life with Bust 1665 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Jan Vonck Dead Birds ca. 1660 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| John Singer Sargent Tomb at Toledo ca. 1903 watercolor on paper Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Wendel Dockler Occult Funeral Meal in a Church 1608 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Hubert Robert Tomb and Turreted Archway in Ruins 1760 drawing Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Nikolaus Knüpfer Artemisia at the Tomb of Mausolus ca. 1650 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Félix Auvray Design for Caryatids for the proposed Tomb of Napoleon ca. 1830 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| attributed to Henry Fuseli Man in Despair over Tomb inside a Cave ca. 1770-80 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Joseph Werner the Younger Tomb Robbers threatened by Demon ca. 1667-80 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Henry Roderick Newman Tomb of Ramses II at Abu Simbel 1905 watercolor Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins |
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| Anonymous French Artist Ram's Skull (component of ornamental garland on classical frieze) 18th century drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Egon Schiele Postmortem Portrait of Gustav Klimt 1918 drawing Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Charley Toorop Still Life with Skull 1929 oil on panel Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Ancient Greece Grave Stele Young Hunter mourned by his Father 340 BC marble relief (discovered in the River Ilisos near Athens) National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
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| Henri-Léopold Lévy Christ in the Tomb ca. 1880 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| James Ensor Skeleton Painter in his Studio 1896 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
Alexander was fifteen when by chance one day he was passing the place where the horse Bucephalus was caged. He heard a terrifying neigh and, turning to the attendants, asked, "What is this neighing?" In reply, the general Ptolemy said, "Master, this is the horse Bucephalus that your father caged because he was a man-eater." But the horse, hearing the sound of Alexander's voice, neighed again, not in a terrifying manner as on all previous occasions, but sweetly and clearly as though instructed by God. And when Alexander went up to the cage, straightaway the horse extended its forefeet to Alexander and licked him, indicating who its master was. Alexander observed the striking appearance of the horse and the remains of numerous slaughtered men at its feet, but elbowed aside the horse's guards and opened the cage. He grasped its mane; it obeyed him, and he leapt on it without a bridle, then rode through the center of the city of Pella.
– Pseudo-Callisthenes, from The Alexander Romance (2nd-4th century AD), translated from Greek by Ken Dowden (1989)