Here's an interesting painting of the Roman poet Virgil, depicted as a pagan wise man dressed in Eastern garb. It is by Ludger tom Ring the Elder and dated ca. 1538. This image accompanied Durs Grünbein's 2009 essay on Hermann Broch's novel Der Tod des Vergil (The Death of Virgil). Grünbein tells me that his editors at the FAZ, where his essay appeared, selected the image.