Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, was Europe's most prominent Latin poet of the 17th century, and a renowned theoretician of poetics.
Bust of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski by Jan Kryński. Before 1885
Frontispiece of Lyricorum Libri by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1632)
Sarbiewski portrait at the Church of St. Johns in Vilnius (by Sofija Veiverytė)
Scraffito painting at the Vilnius University Faculty of Philology (by Rimantas Gibavičius)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
Bronze medallion depicting Horace, 4th-5th century
Horace reads his poems in front of Maecenas, by Fyodor Bronnikov
Horace reciting his verses, by Adalbert von Rössler.
Horace, portrayed by Giacomo Di Chirico