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| Léonard Limosin Venus and Cupid 1555 enamel on copper Musée du Louvre |
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| Pierre Courteys The Month of July ca. 1560 enamel on copper Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Lot and his Daughters ca. 1585-1600 alabaster relief Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Platter with Triumph of Galatea 1589 maiolica Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Platter with modeled Lizard ca. 1600-1650 glazed earthenware Musée du Louvre |
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| Michelangelo Cinganelli Allegory of Faith ca. 1620-25 ceiling fresco Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Cristofano Allori Portrait of a Woman before 1621 oil on copper private collection |
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| Leonaert Bramer Abraham and his Family departing for Canaan ca. 1635 oil on panel Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Clemente Bocciardo Self Portrait cs. 1640-50 drawing (frame drawn by later hand) British Museum |
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| attributed to Emanuel de Critz Portrait of John Tradescant the Elder cs. 1645 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Anonymous Dutch Artist Venus and Cupid with spying Satyrs 17th century oil on copper Galleria Palatina, Florence |
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| Pierre Hutinot Le Temps qui découvre la Vertu et l'amour des Arts 1667 marble relief Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles de La Fosse (figures) and Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (flowers) The Annunciation 1688 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous British Artist Miniature Portrait of Alexandra, Princess of Wales 1853 enamel on copper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Eugène Chauvigné Roses ca. 1874 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Konrad Cramer Synchronist Composition ca. 1916 gouache on paper Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Vasilij Dmitrovič Ermilov Oval Composition ca. 1923 oil on panel Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
The Nile
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,
And times and things, as in that vision, seem
Keeping along it their eternal stands –
Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands
That roamed through the young world, the glory extreme
Of high Sesostris, and that Southern beam,
The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands.
Then comes a mighty silence, stern and strong,
As of a world left empty of its throng,
And the void weighs on us; and then we wake,
And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along
Twixt villages, and think how we shall take
Our own calm journey on for human sake.
– Leigh Hunt (1818)