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| Girolamo Troppa Endymion ca. 1665 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Raphael St Catherine of Alexandria ca. 1507 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Joseph Nollekens Portrait of Maria, Mrs. Henry Howard of Corby ca. 1800 marble Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Michaelina Woutier St John the Evangelist 1650 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Leandro Bassano Lucrezia ca. 1610 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Antonio de Saliba St Sebastian ca. 1490-95 oil on panel Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Richard Westall Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as Saint Cecilia ca. 1810 oil on canvas Royal Museums, Greenwich |
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| Philipp Veit Maria von Mörl, Mystic and Stigmatic ca. 1832 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Andrea del Verrocchio St Jerome ca. 1465 oil and tempera on paper, mounted on panel Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Denys Calvaert Death of Cleopatra ca. 1615-18 oil on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Jean-Baptiste Greuze Study Head of a Youth ca. 1760 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Raphael Study for Head of St James ca. 1502 drawing British Museum |
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| Adolf Ulric Wertmüller Study for Ariadne on Naxos 1783 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Girolamo Tessari Salathiel, son of King Jeconiah [Biblical figure, an ancestor of Christ] ca. 1523-26 fresco Chiesa di San Francesco Grande, Padua |
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| Andrea Vaccaro Penitent Magdalen before 1670 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| Antoine Vestier Tête de Bacchante 1783 oil on canvas Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Antonio Zanchi Head of a Warrior ca. 1685 oil on canvas Museo Civico di Santa Caterina, Treviso |
from The City of Dreadful Night
Yes, here and there some weary wanderer
In that same city of tremendous night,
Will understand the speech, and feel a stir
Of fellowship in all-disastrous fight;
'I suffer mute and lonely, yet another
Uplifts his voice to let me know a brother
Travels the same wild paths though out of sight.'
O sad Fraternity, do I unfold
Your dolorous mysteries shrouded from of old?
Nay, be assured; no secret can be told
To any who divined it not before:
None uninitiate by many a presage
Will comprehend the language of the message,
Although proclaimed aloud for evermore.
– James Thomson (1880)