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| Frans Crabbe van Espleghem Christ taking Leave of his Mother ca. 1530 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Jan van Hemessen The Calling of Matthew ca. 1548 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lambert Jacobsz Elisha rebuking his servant Gehazi ca. 1629 oil on canvas Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Gerritt Willemsz Horst Esau selling his Birthright to Jacob ca. 1640 oil on canvas Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Orazio de' Ferrari Daniel interpreting a divine message at Belshazzar's Feast ca. 1640-50 drawing (study for painting) British Museum |
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| Willem van Herp Abraham and the Three Angels 1650-60 oil on canvas Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt |
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| Gerard Hoet Shipwrecked Odysseus meeting Nausicaä ca. 1690 oil on panel Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Andrea Casali Antony and Cleopatra ca. 1725-30 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Joseph Denasde Alexander the Great with his physician Philip of Acarnania 1785 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| William Hamilton Lavinia and her Mother (scene from The Seasons by James Thomson) 1795 oil on canvas Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University |
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| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg King Christian IV of Denmark visiting Tycho Brahe, ca. 1590 1831 etching British Museum |
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| Mauro Gandolfi after Gaetano Gandolfi St Cecilia before 1834 engraving British Museum |
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| Hippolyte Flandrin Le Dante aux Enfers 1835 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Auguste Lehmann after Hippolyte Flandrin Le Dante aux Enfers ca. 1868-70 etching and engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Frank Dicksee Tension at Dinner (study for illustration in the Cornhill Magazine) 1877 gouache on paper British Museum |
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| Charles Demuth Eight O'Clock (Early Morning) 1917 watercolor on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Leroy Flint Speakers' Platform 1937 color etching and aquatint (WPA project) Art Institute of Chicago |
from A Letter to a Friend upon the Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend
He was fruitlessly put in hope of advantage by change of Air, and imbibing the pure Aerial Nitre of these Parts; and therefore being so far spent, he quickly found Sardinia in Tivoli, and the most healthful Air of little effect, where Death had set her Broad Arrow; for he lived not unto the middle of May, and confirmed the Observation of Hippocrates of that mortal time of the Year when the Leaves of the Fig-Tree resemble a Daw's Claw. He is happily seated who lives in Places whose Air, Earth, and Water, promote not the Infirmities of his weaker Parts, or is easily removed into Regions that correct them. He that is tabidly inclined, were unwise to pass his days in Portugal: Cholical Persons will find little Comfort in Austria or Vienna: He that is Weak-legg'd must not be in Love with Rome, nor an infirm Head with Venice or Paris. Death hath not only particular Stars in Heaven, but malevolent Places on Earth, which single out our Infirmities, and strike at our weaker Parts; in which Concern, passager and migrant Birds have the great Advantages; who are naturally constituted for distant Habitations, whom no Seas or Places limit, but in their appointed Seasons will visit us from Greenland and Mount Atlas, and as some think, even from the Antipodes.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)