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| Hans Thoma Herd of Goats on the Roman Campagna 1880 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Bremen |
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| Jacob Alberts Landscape with Flowers in the Hallig Islands 1935 oil on canvas Nordsee Museum, Husum, Germany |
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| Cornelis van Poelenburgh Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1640-50 oil on panel Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève |
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| Caspar David Friedrich Drifting Clouds ca. 1820 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Svein Johansen Park 1984-85 oil on canvas Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Hermine Lang-Laris Vienna Botanical Garden 1891 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Marco Ricci St Jerome in the Wilderness ca. 1710 oil on panel Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne |
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| Pierre Henri de Valenciennes Landscape of Ancient Greece 1786 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Anton Mirou Conversion of St Paul ca. 1600 oil on copper Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Roelant Savery Landscape with Entrance to a Mine ca. 1612-13 oil on panel Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Georg Primavesi View of Löwenburg Castle ca. 1828 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Thomas Fearnley Distant View of Munich after a Thunderstorm 1831 oil on canvas Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| Sébastien Bourdon Landscape with a Mill ca. 1653-57 oil on canvas Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Joseph Anton Koch Heroic Landscape with Rainbow 1805 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Adolf Friedrich Vollmer Along the Aumühle ca. 1830 oil on cardboard Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Théo van Rysselberghe Per Kiridy at High Tide 1889 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
Calliope discovered the art of heroic verse; Clio the sweet music of the lyre which accompanies the dance; Euterpe the sonorous voice of the tragic chorus; Melpomene found for mortals the honey-toned barbitos, and charming Terpsichore gave us the artful flute; Erato invented cheering hymns to the gods; learned Polymnia the joys of the dance; Urania discovered the pole and the dance of the stars of heaven, and Thalia the plots and good moral teaching of comedy.
Do not rapidly unroll the book of Heraclitus the Ephesian. The path is very difficult, and all is mist and unilluminated darkness; but if one initiated introduces you, it is clearer than the bright sun.
On a Figure of Galene by the gem-cutter Tryphon – Tryphon coaxed me, the Indian beryl, to be Galene, the goddess of Calm, and with his soft hands let down my hair. Look at my lips smoothing the liquid sea, and my breasts with which I charm the windless waves. Did the envious stone but consent, you would soon see me swimming, as I am longing to do.
Nereids, Nymphs of the shore, you saw Daphnis yesterday, when he washed off the dust that lay like down on his skin; when, burnt by the dog-star, he rushed into your waters, the apples of his cheeks faintly reddened. Tell me, was he beautiful?
Tarsus, Cilician city, the runner Aries, son of Menecles, does not disgrace even Perseus, thy founder. Such are the boy's winged feet that not even Perseus would have shown him his back in the race. The youth is seen only at the start and the finish, never in the middle of the course.
Earthquake, most dread of all shocks, whether thou art aroused by the upshaken currents of the sea or of the winds, spare my new-built house, for I know not yet any terror to equal the quivering of the earth.
– from Book IX (Declamatory and Descriptive Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)