1. Hans Memling, Christ with Musician Angels, Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1480s

2. Hans Memling, Angel Musicians (left panel), Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, c. 1480s

3. Unknown master, German (active in 1410s in the Upper Rhineland), The Garden of Eden, c. 1410, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

4. Stefan Lochner, Madonna in the Rose Arbour, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, c.1448

5. The Nativity (1470-5) by Piero della Francesca, London, National Gallery

6. Caravaggio, Rest on the Flight to Egypt, Rome, Galleria Doria-Pamphili, 1596

7. Francisco Ribalta (1565-1628), The Ecstasy of Saint Francis of Assisi: The Vision of the Musical Angel, about 1620-25. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conn.

8. St Cecilia, Raphael, 1514-15, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bolonia

9. Dürer, The Jabach Altarpiece, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt and Wallraf- Richartz Museum, Cologne

10. Rembrandt, Saul and David, Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1655-60

11. Jan van Hemessen, Allegory, c. 1550, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

12. Venus and the Lute Player, ca. 1565–70, Titian and Workshop, New York, Metropolitan Museum

13. Titian, Venus with Organist and Cupid, Madrid, Prado Museum

14. Zurbarán, Temptation of St Jerome, 1639

15. Triumph of Death, Sclafani Palace, Palermo (today in the Museum of Palermo), c. 1445

16. Peter Brueghel the Elder, Triumph of Death, 1562-1563

17. Bosch, Hell, Madrid, Prado Museum

18. Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1504-1510 Madrid, Prado

19. Gerrit van Honthorst, The Prodigal Son, 17th c

20. Evaristo Baschenis, Still-Life with Musical Instruments, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, c. 1650

21. Jean Garnier, Still-life with portrait of Louis XIV, 1672, Museum of Versailles

22. Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533, London, National Gallery

23. Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533, London, National Gallery (detail)

24. Juan Baños de Velasco y Azevedo, Séneca Ilustrado (Madrid 1870): Question VIII, Ruptae non sonant

25. Francisco de Zárraga, Séneca Juez de Sí Mismo (Burgos 1684): emblem In Temperata Dissonant

26. Francisco Núñez de Cepeda, Sacred Imprese (Lyon 1682): ‘Impresa ‘ Dulcedine et Vi