A woman in a chariot arrives at the ruins of a building as the Olympian gods look down from above, in the foreground stands an armed female figure; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

A female figure in glory at center, surrounded by burning rocks; below Cupid sailing on a burning chariot; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

Mathäus Küsel, after Ludovico Ottaviano Burnacini

The News Brought to Olympus

Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi), Designed by Baccio Bandinelli

The hellmouth, set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

Mathäus Küsel, after Ludovico Ottaviano Burnacini

Giants crushed by rocks and the falling columns of the temple, clouds of smoke above, Poseidon in his chariot to left in the background, two spaces at left for doorways, from "Giove che fulmina li giganti", after the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sala dei Giganti designed by Giulio Romano for the Palazzo del Te, Mantua

Pietro Santi Bartoli, After Giulio Romano

The test of fire, the monk Peter, the disciple Saint John Gualbert, passing through the flames from two pyres unharmed, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert)

Stefano della Bella

Leopold I of Austria as Jupiter with his wife enthroned in the clouds, looking down on the struggling giants below

Mathäus Küsel, After Mauro Oddi

Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal'

Israel Silvestre, Intermediary draughtsman F. Francart, Stage designer Giacomo Torelli da Fano

Destruction of the Tower of Babel: at right men and women flee from the burning tower, at left men and women raise their hands toward two flying angels, from "Liber Genesis"

Crispijn de Passe the Elder

A Visit to Rome in 1764

Franz Edmund Weirotter

A shore framed by rocks, with Neptune in his chariot on the left and Salacia in hers on the right; at center, a ship caught in a storm; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

Mathäus Küsel, after Ludovico Ottaviano Burnacini

Neptune apaisant la tempête (Neptune Calming the Storm)

François Antoine Aveline, After François Boucher

Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

Cornelis Cort, After Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)