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| Alec Soth Two Towels 2004 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Volker Seding Double-Wattled Cassowary - San Antonio, Texas 1989 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous French Sculptor Capital with Birds and Lions ca. 1150-1200 limestone Musée du Louvre |
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| Volker Seding Kudu - Heidelberg, Germany 1989 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Daniel Faust Flying Squirrel 1982 inkjet print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Volker Seding Malay Tapir - Brookfield Zoo, Chicago 1985 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Alan Magee Profile 2000 acrylic on panel Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Volker Seding Pigmy Hippopotamus - National Zoo, Washington DC 1987 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Hassel Smith Bird Lover 1957 oil on canvas San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Volker Seding Sleeping Lion - Jacksonville Zoo, Florida 1986 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Richard Bosman Struggle 1984 oil on canvas Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Volker Seding Snow Leopard - San Antonio, Texas 1987 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Maggi Hambling The Holyrood 1987 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Volker Seding Sykes Monkey - Southport, England 1990 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Cornell Aviary with Multiple Birds 1942 wood, glass, printed paper, found objects National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Volker Seding White Rhinoceros - Chester, England 1990 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Julian Alden Weir Children Burying a Bird 1878 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
How kindly will thy gentle heart
Kiss the sweet-killing dart,
And close in his embraces keep
Those delicious wounds that weep
Balsam to heal themselves with! Thus,
When these thy deaths so numerous
Shall all at last die into one,
And melt thy soul's sweet mansion,
Like a soft lump of incense, hasted
By too hot a fire, and wasted
Into perfuming clouds, so fast
Shalt thou exhale to heaven at last,
In a resolving sigh, and then,
O what? Ask not the tongues of men.
– Richard Crashaw (1648)