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| Claude Mellan Phases of the Moon - Last Quarter 1637 engraving (based on telescope views by Pierre Gassendi) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Henri Matisse Woman seated in an Armchair 1940 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Hans Memling The Canon Gilles Joye 1472 tempera and oil on panel Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse Putto as Allegorical Figure of Commerce 1828 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Claude Mellan Phases of the Moon - First Quarter 1637 engraving (based on telescope views by Pierre Gassendi) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Henri Matisse Still Life with Apples 1924 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Hans Memling Portrait of a Man with a Pink ca. 1480 oil on panel Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse Putto as Allegorical Figure of The Arts 1828 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Claude Mellan Phases of the Moon - Full 1637 engraving (based on telescope views by Pierre Gassendi) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Henri Matisse Still Life with Pineapple 1924 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Hans Memling Portrait of a Man ca. 1470-75 oil on panel Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse Putto as Allegorical Figure of The Sciences 1828 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Mirror Back with Chess Game ca. 1300 ivory relief Musée du Louvre |
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| Henri Matisse Vase de Fleurs et le Plat d'Huitres 1940 oil on canvas Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Hans Memling Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1480 oil on panel Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse Putto as Allegorical Figure of War 1828 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Mirror Back with the Storming of the Palace of Love ca. 1350-70 ivory relief Musée du Louvre |
A tomb on the Thracian approaches of Olympus holds
Orpheus, the one whom the Muse Calliope bore.
The oaks could not but obey him, and the mindless
Rocks kept pace to his beat, and the woodland beast-packs.
He found out the occult initiation rites of Bacchus, and likewise
Structured the linked line in epic metre.
Spellbound, with his lyre, he held the heavy mind
Of Him Whom we speak well of, the unmollifiable,
And that wrath likewise which no enchantment can bind.
– from the Greek Anthology, translated by John Heath-Stubbs and Carol A. Whiteside