Mercury descending from the sky a trumpet in his right hand, after Raphael's fresco in the Chigi Gallery of the Villa Farnesina in Rome

Plate 5: Neptune standing in a niche holding a trident, with a hippocampus (sea-horse) behind him, from a series of gods and goddesses

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, After Rosso Fiorentino

Plate 5: Neptune standing in a niche holding a trident, with a hippocampus (sea-horse) behind him, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, After Rosso Fiorentino

Hercules with his Club and Lion Skin

Anonymous, 16th century, After Baccio Bandinelli

Perseus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giacomo Lauri, Claudio Duchetti

A Man Shooting a Crossbow

Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia), after Lelio Orsi (called Lelio da Novellara), Cornelis Cort

Neptune standing in a niche holding a trident in his left hand, foliage in his right

Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia), After Polidoro da Caravaggio

Apollo Belvedere, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

Pluto; on verso sketches of a figure, four heads, and a column

Hendrick Goltzius, After Polidoro da Caravaggio

Emperor Commodus as Hercules

Attributed to Jacob Bos, Claudio Duchetti

Plate 3: Jupiter emerging from a niche, riding an eagle and holding a thunderbolt in his left hand, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, After Rosso Fiorentino

Plate 11: Apollo riding his chariot in a niche, facing right, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, After Rosso Fiorentino

Allegorical figure of a warrior standing on a globe with the papal coat of arms at his feet

Aegidius Sadeler II, After Giovanni Maria Nosseni