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| Ancient Greek Culture Sphinx 570 BC limestone (grave statue excavated in Attica) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen |
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| Thørbjorn Lie-Jørgensen Loom 1935 watercolor on paper Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Kari Mølstad Smoky Crystal 2019 blown glass Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Lilo Raymond Pitcher 1980 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Roman Empire Bottle 1st century AD blown glass Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins |
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| Philip von Schantz Bark 1978 lithograph Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Chaїm Soutine Carcass of Beef ca. 1925 oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| Jan Terwey Cuffs and Collar ca. 1920 pastel on paper Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Kjell Anderson Hat 1971 etching and aquatint Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Anonymous German Sculptor Capital with Foliage Ornament ca. 1160-70 sandstone Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Peter Behrens AEG Metallfaden-Lampe ca. 1907-1910 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Roland Borén Cheval de Frise 1985 painted sheet-metal Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Antonio Chichi Model of the Temple of Vesta in the Forum Boarium, Rome ca. 1777-82 cork and wood Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Jean Dubuffet Stèle (forme de jambe) 1968 painted polyester Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Max Ernst The Wheel of Light 1926 collotype Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Caspar David Friedrich Hut in Snow 1827 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Then we crossed the river where there was a ford, and discovered some vines of a marvelous kind; they had firm, thick stems lower down, but the upper parts were female figures, complete in every detail from the flanks up. They looked just like the pictures ones sees of Daphne turning into a tree just as Apollo takes hold of her. The vine shoots, loaded with grapes, grew from the tips of their fingers; the hair of their heads also was tendrils and leaves and fruit. They gave us welcome as we approached and greeted us in Lydian, Indian, and – the majority of them – Greek. They also kissed us, and anyone who was kissed became drunk immediately and began to stagger about. But they would not let us pluck the fruit, crying out in pain as we tugged at it. Some of them even evinced sexual passion; two of my comrades embraced them, only to find themselves caught by the genitals and unable to free themselves. They became one with the plants and took root beside them; their fingers at once put forth shoots, tendrils grew all over them, and they too were on the point of bearing fruit.
We left them and hastily regained the ship; there we told those who had stayed behind everything that had happened, including our comrades' affair with the vines. Then we took some jars to fill with water and also with river-wine, and camped for the night on the shore near the boat.
– Lucian, from A True Story (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by B.P. Reardon (1989)