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| Sébastien Bourdon God the Father before 1671 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Michel Dorigny after Simon Vouet Allegory of Prudence 1638 etching and engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) St John the Evangelist ca. 1610 drawing (study for fresco) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Domenico Piola Putto with Garland ca. 1680 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens Studies of Figure in Motion 1857 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Domenico Tintoretto Figure of Moses before 1635 drawing (drapery study from below) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Johann Heinrich Schönfeld Fall of Phaeton ca. 1650 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Wilhelm Steinhausen Artist gazing at Spirit of Painting in Clouds beside Target 1878 watercolor on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Ugo da Carpi after Giulio Romano Ceiling Painting with Angels bearing Wreath of Stars before 1532 chiaroscuro woodcut Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) Design for Ceiling with Dawn in Cupola ca, 1640 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anonymous Artist Quadratura Design ca. 1650-1700 drawing Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Johann Georg Bergmüller Quadratura Design ca. 1745 engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Photoglob Zürich Bathroom Ceiling, Neues Schloss Herrenchiemsee ca. 1902 photochrome Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Francesco Primaticcio Dance of Hours and Putti with Cornucopiae ca. 1547-48 drawing (study for ceiling painting at Fontainebleau) Städel Museum. Frankfurt |
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| Anonymous French Artist Dawn emerging from the Palace of Night 17th century drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Robert Kummer Cacti on Capri 1833 oil on paper Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
Ye sailors on the sea, Aristo of Cyrene prays you all by Zeus the Protector of strangers to tell his father Meno that he lost his life in the Aegean main, and lies by the rocks of Icaria.
Wayfarer who passest by my empty tomb, when thou comest to Chios tell my father Melesagoras that the evil south-easter destroyed me, my ship, and my merchandise, and naught but the name of Euippus is left.
The wintry blasts of the east wind cast thee out naked, Phillis, on the surf-beaten shore beside a spur of Lesbos rich in wine, and thou liest on the sea-bathed foot of the lofty cliff.
I am the tomb, traveller, of Bito, and if leaving Torone thou comest to Amphipolis, tell Nicagoras that the Strymonian wind at the setting of the Kids was the death of his only son.
I am buried both on land and in the sea; this is the exceptional fate of Tharsys, son of Charmides. For diving to loosen the anchor, which had become fixed, I descended into the Ionian sea; the anchor I saved, but as I was returning from the depths and already reaching out my hand to the sailors, I was eaten; so terrible and great a monster of the deep came and gulped me down as far as the navel. The half of me, a cold burden, the sailors drew from the sea, but the shark bit off the other half. On this beach, good Sir, they buried the vile remains of Tharsys, and I never came home to my country.
The earth of a strange land lies on thy body, Cleisthenes, but the doom of death overtook thee wandering on the Euxine sea. Thou wast cheated of sweet, honied homecoming, nor ever didst thou return to sea-girt Chios.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)