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| Herri met de Bles Landscape with Burning City ca. 1500 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Paul-Emmanuel Péraire Gust of Wind 1892 oil on canvas Musée Salies, Bagnères-de-Bigorre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Country Scene with Aqueduct ca. 1796 drawing Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
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| Anita Rée Ravine at Pians 1921 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Daniel de Monfreid Gorges de Fuilla 1899 oil on canvas Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, Perpignan |
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| Claude Monet Shore at Fécamp 1881 oil on canvas Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre |
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| Max Liebermann Terrace of the Hotel Jacob in Nienstedten on the Elbe 1902-03 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Isaac Major Wild Landscape with Figures ca. 1630 etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
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| Franz Kobell Landscape with Ruins before 1822 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Adriaen van der Poel Ice Skaters 1652 oil on canvas Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt |
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| August Ahlborn View of the Neue Palais, Potsdam 1826 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Dankvart Dreyer Landscape near Hammermøllen 1843 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Pierre Patel Jacob wrestling with the Angel in a Landscape ca. 1640 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne |
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| Otto Modersohn Autumn on the Marsh 1895 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Bremen |
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| Hanns Lautensack River Landscape with Castle 1553 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| James McNeill Whistler Brown and Silver - Old Battersea Bridge ca. 1859-63 oil on canvas Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts |
Thy mind, by its sweet light, conquered the sun, ever flashing forth soft brilliance of wisdom to illuminate mortals, a pleasant and painless splendour.
May holy Adrasteia preserve thee, and Nemesis, the maiden who treadeth in our track, she who has cheated many. I fear for thy body's lovely form, O youth; for thy mental gifts and the strength of thy divine courage, for thy learning and thy prudent counsel. Such we are told, Drusus, are the children of the blessed immortals.
"By our children," she said, "I implore thee, if thou layest me out dead, enter not a second time into the loving bond of wedlock." She spoke, but he hastened to take another wife. Yet Philinna, even dead, punished Diogenes for forgetting her. For on the first night the wrath from which there is no escape laid their chamber in ruins, so that the sun never shone on his second marriage.
Here I lie, the luckless city, no longer a city, with my dead inhabitants, most ill-fated of all towns. After the Earth-shaker's shock Hephaestus consumed me. Alas, how excellent my beauty who now am dust! But as ye pass by bewail my fate, and let fall a tear for destroyed Berytus.
Stop not thy ship's course, mariner, because of me; lower not thy sails; thou seest the harbour dry. I am but one tomb. Let some other place that knows not mourning hear the beat of thine oars as thy ship approaches. This is Poseidon's pleasure and that of the Hospitable gods. Farewell seafarers, farewell wayfarers!
Grey time goes along in silence, but as he creeps by he steals the voices of speaking men. Himself unseen, he makes the seen unseen and brings the unseen to light. O undetermined end of the life of men who day by day advance towards the dark!
– from Book IX (Declamatory and Descriptive Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)