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| Antonello da Messina The Crucifixion ca. 1450 oil on panel Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania |
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| workshop of Giovanni Bellini Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1505-1510 oil and tempera on panel Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| workshop of Hieronymus Bosch The Taking of Christ ca. 1515 oil and tempera on panel San Diego Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous German Artist The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist ca. 1520 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Hans Baldung Mucius Scaevola thrusting his Hand into the Flames before Lars Porsena 1531 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Alonso Berruguete The Entombment ca. 1540-60 engraving British Museum |
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| Heinrich Aldegrever Herkinbald, Duke of Brabant on his Deathbed slaying his Nephew as a Rapist who escaped Justice 1553 engraving British Museum |
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| Andrea Boscoli The Crucifixion ca. 1598-99 drawing (study for lost altarpiece) British Museum |
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| Giulio Benso The Expulsion from Paradise 1638 drawing British Museum |
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| Bartolomeo Biscaino Aeneas fleeing Troy with his Family ca. 1647 drawing British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop The Mocking of Christ before 1671 drawing British Museum |
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| Gérard Audran after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Sacrifice of Iphigenia ca. 1685 engraving British Museum |
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| Jean-Simon Barthélemy Tomyris presented with the Head of Cyrus 1766 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist after Hans Speckaert Fall of the Titans ca. 1780-90 drawing British Museum |
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| Pietro Bombelli after Orazio Riminaldi Four Bound Saints 1792 engraving British Museum |
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| Pierre Nolasque Bergeret Marius contemplating the Ruins of Carthage 1807 oil on canvas Dayton Art Institute, Ohio |
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| Leonard Baskin Tormented Man 1956 watercolor and ink on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
from On Mr. John Fletcher's Works
So shall we joy, when all whom Beasts and Worms
Had turned to their own substances and forms,
Whom Earth to Earth, or Fire hath changed to Fire,
We shall behold more than at first entire;
As now we do, to see all thine thy own
In this thy Muses' Resurrection,
Whose scattered parts, from thy own race, more wounds
Hath suffered than Acteon from his Hounds;
Which first their Brains and then their Bellie fed,
And from their excrements new Poets bred.
– Sir John Denham (1642)