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| Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont Castello di San Giuliano near Trapani, Sicily ca. 1824-26 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Jean Barbault Capriccio of Roman Ruins with the Pyramid of Caius Cestius 1754 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot The Roman Campagna 1827 oil on canvas Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot View at Narni 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Théodore Géricault Tarantella in Rome 1817 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Pierre Vignal Venetian View ca. 1890 watercolor on paper Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Constant Moyaux Fountain of Minerva, Villa Medici, Rome 1861 watercolor on paper Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| Victor-Jean Nicolle Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome ca. 1779 drawing Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| François-Antoine-Léon Fleury Village on Ischia ca. 1828 oil on paper Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jean Lemaire View near Rome ca. 1635 oil on canvas Musée Thomas Henry, Cherbourg |
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| Pierre-Jacques Volaire Eruption of Vesuvius 1771 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| François-Marius Granet View of Tivoli with the Church of San Silvestro 1807 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Ernest Joachim Dumax View in the Roman Campagna 1847 oil on paper Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jean Barbault Neapolitan Herder and Cow ca. 1750 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg |
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| André Castagné Capitoline Hill, Rome 1981 drawing Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
Botanist on Alp (No. 2)
The crosses on the convent roofs
Gleam sharply as the sun comes up.
What's down below is in the past
Like last night's crickets, far below.
And what's above is in the past
As sure as all the angels are.
Why should the future leap the clouds
The bays of heaven, brighted, blued?
Chant, O ye faithful, in your paths
The poem of long celestial death;
For who could tolerate the earth,
Without that poem, or without
An earthier one, tum, tum-ti-tum,
As of those crosses, glittering,
And merely of their glittering,
A mirror of a mere delight?
– Wallace Stevens (Ideas of Order, 1935)