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| Johan Christian Dahl Casa del Portinaio (gate house) at Villa Borghese, Rome 1821 oil on canvas KODE (Art Museums Complex), Bergen |
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| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Casa del Portinaio (gate house) at Villa Borghese, Rome 1816 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg View of the Cloaca Maxima, Rome 1814 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Georg Pauli Trevi Fountain, Rome 1924 oil on canvas Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Isaac Israëls Trevi Fountain, Rome ca. 1923 watercolor and gouache on paper Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Isaac de Moucheron View of Rome with Castel Sant'Angelo 1742 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Herman van Swanevelt Ruins on the Palatine Hill, Rome ca. 1630 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Willem van Nieulandt the Younger View of Rome with the Colosseum ca. 1603 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anonymous French Artist Interior of the Colosseum 19th century oil on paper Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jan Frans van Bloemen Landscape with the Vatican Belvedere in the Distance 1740 oil on canvas Musée Magnin, Dijon |
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| Paul Bril View of the Roman Forum 1600 oil on copper Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Marquand Fidel Dominikus Wocher The Arcus Argentariorum, Rome 1777 watercolor on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Rudolf von Alt The Pantheon and Piazza della Rotunda, Rome 1835 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Nicolaes Berchem after Jan Asselijn Italian Landscape with Ruined Aqueduct 1675 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jean-François Sablet Landscape with Fountain on the Road from Genzano di Roma 1804 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Ludwig Johann Passini Artists from Northern Europe gathered at Caffè Greco, Rome 1856 watercolor on paper Hamburger Kunsthalle |
This is the tomb of Achilles the man-breaker, which the Achaeans built to be a terror to the Trojans even in after generations, and it slopes to the beach, that the son of Thetis the sea goddess may be saluted by the moan of the waves.
Here sit I, miserable Virtue, by this tomb of Ajax, with shorn hair, smitten with heavy sorrow that cunning Fraud hath more power with the Greeks than I.
By the tomb of Ajax on the Rhoetean shore, I, Virtue, sit and mourn, heavy at heart, with shorn locks, in soiled raiment, because that in the judgment court of the Greeks not Virtue but Fraud triumphed. Achilles' arms would fain cry, "We want no crooked words, but manly valour."
Alone in defence of the routed host, with extended shield didst thou, Ajax, await the Trojan host that threatened the ships. Neither the crashing stones moved thee, nor the cloud of arrows, nor the clash of spears and swords; but even so, like some crag, standing out and firmly planted thou didst face the hurricane of the foes. If Hellas did not give thee the arms of Achilles to wear, a worthy reward of thy valour, it was by the counsel of the Fates that she erred, in order that thou shouldst meet with doom from no foe, but at thine own hand.
Ajax lieth in Troy after a thousand vaunted deeds of prowess, blaming not his foes but his friends.
Hector gave his sword to Ajax and Ajax his girdle to Hector, and the gifts of both are alike instruments of death.
Bitter favours did Hector and Ajax of the great shield give each other after the fight, in memory of their friendship. For Hector received a girdle, and gave a sword in return, and they proved in death the favour that was in the gifts. The sword slew Ajax in his madness, and the girdle dragged Hector behind the chariot. Thus the adversaries gave each other the self-destroying gifts, which held death in them under pretence of kindness.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)