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| Giovanni del Biondo Vision of St Benedict before 1399 tempera and gold on panel Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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| attributed to Benozzo Gozzoli Warrior and Horse ca. 1447-49 drawing British Museum |
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| Girolamo di Benvenuto Phrygian Sibyl before 1524 drawing British Museum |
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| Juan van der Hamen Bodegón: Sloes and Cherries ca. 1631 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Anonymous Artist for the Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum Marching Army reviewed by Alexander the Great (after fresco by Polidoro da Caravaggio) ca. 1650 drawing British Museum |
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| Jan van Huysum Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn 1724 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Francesco de Mura Dido receiving Aeneas ca. 1780 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Alfred Edward Chalon Ceres at Arethusa's Spring (illustration to Ovid's Metamorphoses) 1809 drawing British Museum |
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| Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Prayer of Light 1894 oil on canvas Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin |
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| William Glackens The Purple Dress ca. 1908-1910 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Il'ya Chasnik Suprematism 1920 watercolor and gouache on paper Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| George Hurrell Gypsy Rose Lee 1937 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Perle Fine A Radiance at Noon 1957 gouache and collage on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Sidney Goodman Child with Acrobat 1995-96 pastel and charcoal on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Kate Lucey Whitney Lavender Steps - The Whim, Newport, Rhode Island 2009 digital photograph Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Ellen Carey Dings and Shadows 2012 C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Sean Scully Blue 2012 etching and aquatint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
Sonnet I
Dost see how unregarded now
That piece of beauty passes?
There was a time when I did vow
To that alone;
But mark the fate of faces:
That red and white works now no more on me
Than if it could not charm, or I not see.
And yet the face continues good,
And I have still desires,
And still the self-same flesh and blood,
As apt to melt
And suffer from those fires;
Oh! Some kind power unriddle where it lies,
Whether my heart be faulty, or her eyes?
She every day her man doth kill,
And I do often die;
Neither her power, then, nor my will
Can questioned be;
What is the mystery?
Sure beauty's empires, like to greater states,
Have certain periods set, and hidden fates.
– Sir John Suckling (1646)