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| Alberto Greco Todo de Todo 1964 ink, oil paint and printed paper collage on panel Institut Valencià d'Art Modern |
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| Jan Steen The Wrath of Ahasuerus ca. 1668-70 oil on canvas Museum Bredius, The Hague |
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| Heinrich Friedrich Füger Alceste ca. 1810 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giorgio Ghisi David beheading Goliath 1540 engraving Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Peter Schlemihl's Encounter with the Shadow 1915 color woodblock print Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti Boatman and Siren 1853 drawing Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Gustaf Wappers The Siege of Leiden ca. 1830 oil on canvas Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Pierre Alechinsky Victors and Vanquished 1962 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Wolfgang Heimbach Christ succoured by Saints and Angels 1658 oil on panel Landesmuseum Mainz |
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| Giacomo Parolini Moses commanding the Red Sea to close over the Egyptian Host ca. 1695 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Penitent St Jerome ca. 1513-14 oil on panel Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania |
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| workshop of Jacob Jordaens after Peter Paul Rubens Death of Decius Mus ca. 1616-17 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist Aeneas in the Underworld ca. 1650-1700 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Hans Ulrich Franck Neptune ca. 1670-80 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Agostino Carracci Venus whipping Anteros ca. 1590-95 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Anonymous Artist Rich Man with Statue of Hope approached by Death ca. 1580 engraving Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
from Connoisseur of Chaos
After all the pretty contrast of life and death
Proves that these opposite things partake of one,
At least that was the theory, when bishops' books
Resolved the world. We cannot go back to that.
The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind,
If one may say so. And yet relation appears,
A small relation expanding like the shade
Of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of a hill.
– Wallace Stevens (1942)