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| Gioacchino Assereto Prometheus ca. 1630 oil on canvas Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai |
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| Abraham Bloemaert after Titian Prometheus ca. 1600 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Sebald Beham Expulsion from Paradise 1543 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Cherubino Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio Expulsion of Adam and Eve before 1615 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Abel Faivre Pour la France versez votre Or 1915 lithograph (poster) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Hans Konrad Escher von der Linth Aeneas and Anchises ca. 1781 drawing Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Anton Maria Zanetti after Parmigianino Aeneas carrying Anchises out of burning Troy 1723 chiaroscuro woodcut Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Paolo Farinati Tamerlane mounting his Horse ca. 1575 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Heinrich Friedrich Füger Brutus sentencing his Sons to Death 1799 drawing (study for painting) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Roman Empire Barbarian Prisoners and Trophies AD 240-260 marble relief panels (from Triumphal Arch demolished in Rome) Giardino di Boboli, Florence |
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| Matthias Gerung Allegory of Justice sleeping in Chains 1543 oil and tempera on panel Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Alexander Rothaug Odysseus longing for Home ca, 1924 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Eugène Isabey The Wreck 1854 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Gaspare Diziani Jonah and the Whale before 1767 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Frederic Leighton Luca Signorelli painting his Beautiful Dead Son 1851 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jan Georg van Vliet Beggar 1632 etching and engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
Praxiteles the sculptor of old time wrought a delicate image, but lifeless, the dumb counterfeit of beauty, endowing the stone with form; but this Praxiteles of today, creator of living beings by his magic, hath moulded in my heart Love, the rogue of rogues. Perchance, indeed, his name only is the same, but his works are better, since he hath transformed no stone, but the spirit of the mind. Graciously may he mould my character, that when he has formed it he may have within me a temple of Love, even my soul.
Troezen is a good nurse; thou shalt not err if thou praisest even the last of her boys. But Empedocles excels all in brilliance as much as the lovely rose outshines the other flowers of spring.
Delicate children, so help me Love, doth Tyre nurture, but Myiscus is the sun that, when his light bursts forth, quenches the stars.
If I see Thero, I see everything, but if I see everything and see no Thero, I again see nothing.
Look! consume not all Cnidus utterly, Aribazus; the very stone is softened and is vanishing.
Ye Persian mothers, beautiful, yea beautiful are the children ye bear, but Aribazus is to me a thing more beautiful than beauty.
– from Book XII (Strato's Musa Puerilis) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)