rara avis

La Batalla de Lepanto

2012-02-29T16:32:00.001-05:00

La Batalla de Lepanto
Gustave Doré, "Historia de Las Cruzadas"
Grabado, 1892

The Battle of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama

2012-02-23T17:05:00.000-05:00

Cornelis Cort, (1533-1578)
The Battle of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama, 1567
Engraving after a drawing variously attributed to Raphael (1483-1520), Gianfrancesco Penni (1496-after 1528) or Giulio Romano (1492-1546)

Fuente: http://www.tunickart.com/artists/cort.html

The head of Medusa

2012-02-19T09:50:00.001-05:00

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
The head of Medusa, ca. 1617-18
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Fuente: http://www.codart.nl/

La pensée

2012-02-15T12:17:00.000-05:00

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)La penséeCirca 1895Marble head; rough hewn baseParis, Musée d'Orsay
Fuente: blog

The Dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus

2012-02-12T16:36:00.001-05:00

The Dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus, 1588
Hendrik Goltzius (publisher/printer; printmaker; painter/draughtsman; Dutch; 1558 - 1617)
Engraving

Fuente: http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/

The rich man and death

2012-02-09T16:07:00.000-05:00

Frans Francken the Younger (1581 - 1642)
The rich man and death (?)
16.5 x 13 cm
Oil on copper
Kunstsammlung der Universität, Göttingen

Fuente: http://www.pubhist.com/

Orchid Mantis

2012-02-08T21:01:00.000-05:00

Orchid Mantis
Hymenopus coronatus
Malaysian orchid praying mantis

Fuente: http://photo.net/photos/siwanowicz

La Mort et le bûcheron

2012-02-05T17:36:00.000-05:00

Millet, Jean-Francois 1814-1875

"La Mort et le Bucheron" (Death and the woodcutter), 1858/59.-(After a tale by La Fontaine).

Oil on canvas

Fuente: http://www.kunst-fuer-alle.de/

Hekate

2012-02-01T14:53:00.000-05:00

Ekate

Maximilian Pirner (1854 – 1929)

Date: 1901
Technique: Pastel/paper, 55 x 89 cm

Fuente: http://www.szecesszio.com/

Mors nulli parcit

2012-01-29T20:12:00.000-05:00

Mors nulli parcit (La muerte a nadie perdona)

Ilustración de los hermanos De Bry's del libro 'Emblemata Saecularia' (Frankfurt). 1592

Grabado.

Fuente: http://marinni.livejournal.com/

Immortality

2012-01-27T13:53:00.001-05:00

Immortality- Illustration in the journal "Iskra", Bulgaria, 1891.

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org/

The Flight of Moloch

2012-01-25T17:12:00.000-05:00

William Blake (1809) The Flight of Moloch,
Watercolour
One of Blake's illustrations of the poem by John Milton

Fuente: http://www.answers.com/topic/moloch

Apollo citharoedus

2012-01-22T21:38:00.000-05:00

Apollo citharoedus
Mármol
Copia romana del siglo I, original del escultor griego Escopas, siglo IV a. C.
Fotografía de Ricardo André Frantz

Fuente: http://tetraktys.multiply.com/

Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis

2012-01-22T20:11:00.001-05:00

Füssli, Johann Heinrich, 1741-1825
Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, 1794, 96
Oil on canvas

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org

Anatomia

2012-01-19T08:19:00.000-05:00

Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno ricercata, Roma 1691

Bernardino Genga
(1636?-1734?)
Charles Errard (1609?-1689) ill.

Fuente: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy

Twelve grotesque figures

2012-01-18T10:45:00.000-05:00

Denis Boutemie

Twelve grotesque figures , 1638

Engraving

Fuente: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

The Barque of Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell)

2012-01-14T21:19:00.000-05:00

The Barque of Dante ,1822 (Dante and Virgil in Hell)
Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
Oil on canvas
Louvre, Paris

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org

Prometheus

2012-01-14T11:39:00.001-05:00

Richard Cosway
Prometheus circa 1785-1800
Pen and brown ink on paper, 225 x184 mm
Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library

Fuente: http://www.tate.org.uk

Lantern Bug

2012-01-10T18:45:00.000-05:00

Lantern Bug

Thomas Marent/Visuals Unlimited, Inc. /SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Lantern Bug (Fulgora), Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.

Fuente: http://www.sciencephoto.com

Knight, Death and the Devil, Detail

2012-01-08T19:27:00.000-05:00

Albrecht Dürer. 1471-1528
Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513, Detail Sign by Durero
Rotterdam, Museum Boijman

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia

La Rou du Monde

2012-01-06T07:32:00.000-05:00

Jean Delville, Belgium, 1867-1953
La Rou du Monde, 1940, oil on canvas, 299 x 231, Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Art

Fuente: http://jeandelville.org

Eve tempted by the serpent

2012-01-03T19:58:00.002-05:00

Eve tempted by the serpent
Edward Francis Burney 1760-1848 England
Engraving

Fuente: http://www.paradiselost.org/4-stories-pictures.html

Pietà

2011-12-21T19:04:00.008-05:00

Pietà
Miguel Ángel Buonarroti (h.1498 y 1499)
Mármol, Basílica de San Pedro, Roma
Fotografía de Aurelio Amendola

Fuente: Arte todos los días

Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion

2011-12-18T08:49:00.000-05:00

Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion, 1812
John Martin (1789 - 1894)
Oil on canvas

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org

Christmas tree worm

2011-12-16T08:04:00.000-05:00

Christmas tree worm
Identification: Spirobranchus giganteus (Phylum Annelida, segmented worms)

Fuente: http://www.divegallery.com/Chr_tree_worm.htm

El Juicio Final

2011-12-13T07:19:00.001-05:00

El Juicio Final (Detalle) h.1432-35
Fra Angélico (1390 -1455)
Témpera

Fuente:http://www.historia-del-arte

The Enigma

2011-12-11T17:11:00.000-05:00

Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
The Enigma, 1871
Oil on canvas

Fuente: http://www.musee-orsay

The Destruction of the Empire

2011-12-06T17:28:00.001-05:00

The Destruction of the Empire
Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was an American painter.
Oil, 1836

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org

The Triumph of the Genius of Destruction

2011-12-05T21:11:00.001-05:00

The Triumph of the Genius of Destruction

1878

Mihály Zichy (1827–1906

Oil on canvas

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org/

Tubastrea Coral Polyp

2011-12-02T08:34:00.001-05:00

Coral Polyp (Single Polyp)
Identification: Tubastrea sp.

Fuente: http://www.divegallery.com

Death dealing arrows.

2011-11-29T10:37:00.000-05:00

Death dealing arrows

J. E. Millais, from English illustration, ‘the sixties’ : 1857-70, by Gleeson White

London, 1903.

Fuente: archive.org

Parsifal

2011-11-27T16:29:00.000-05:00

Parsifal
Jean Delville (1867 1953)
Collection Delville, Brussels

Date: 1890
Technique: Drawing

Fuente: http://www.jeandelville.org

Edgar Allan Poe Tales

2011-11-25T07:26:00.003-05:00

Edgar Allan Poe Tales
Alberto Martini (1876 -1954) Italian painter
Engraving 1905

Fuente: http://darkclassics.blogspot.com

The Oreads

2011-11-22T19:35:00.001-05:00

William Bouguereau (1825-1905)
The Oreads
1902
Oil on Canvas

Fuente: http://www.musee-orsay

The Ride of the Valkyrs

2011-11-20T13:11:00.002-05:00

The Ride of the Valkyrs

John Charles Dollman (1851–1934)

Guerber, Hélène Adeline (1909). Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas.

Fuente: http://www.archive.org

Rose-Shaped Galaxies

2011-11-20T12:18:00.000-05:00

Rose-Shaped Galaxies, the pair of dancing galaxies are called Arp 273

The image was captured on Dec. 17, 2010 with three colored filters in Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. Hubble’s 21st birthday is Sunday, Apr. 24

Fuente: http://www.wired.com

Always and Never

2011-11-19T19:00:00.000-05:00

Always and Never (detail)
Pierre Hébert
Marble, 19th century.

Fuente: http://poisonwasthecure

Sea Anemones

2011-11-18T17:27:00.001-05:00

Class ANTHOZOA -
Sea Anemones and Corals

Fuente: http://silverfishattack.blogspot.com

The Masque of the Red Death

2011-11-18T16:58:00.001-05:00

Illustration of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
Harry Clarke (1889-1931). Published in 1919.

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org

Life Escaping

2011-11-15T17:34:00.000-05:00

Life Escaping From the series "The Girl and Death" (1902) by August Brömse, Aquatint, National Gallery Prague

Fuente: http://www.victorianweb.org

L’agonie de l’artiste

2011-11-12T08:31:00.001-05:00

L’agonie de l’artiste (Artist in the pangs of death)

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, from Chansons rouges (red songs), by Maurice Boukay (music Marcel legay), Paris, 1896.

Fuente: http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.

Ghost Orchid

2011-11-10T20:08:00.003-05:00

Ghost Orchid (Dendrophylax lindenii)
by Mick Fournier, Pompano Beach, Florida, 2007
Mick Fournier / HBI Producers of Fine Orchids

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org

La Barca de Caronte

2011-11-10T12:11:00.001-05:00

José Benlliure y Gil
La Barca de Caronte
Oleo, 1919
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Fuente: http://darkclassics.blogspot.com

Liberty

2011-11-09T14:00:00.001-05:00

Gustave Doré (Strasbourg 1832-Paris 1883).
Liberty, c. 1865-75.
Brown wash and gray and white gouache with graphite on beige wove paper

Fuente: http://www.clevelandart.org

La Comédie de la Mort

2011-11-08T11:57:00.001-05:00

Rodolphe Bresdin
La Comédie de la Mort
Lithograph on cream chine appliqué
1854

Fuente: http://www.tunickart.com

The Fall of Babylon

2011-11-04T21:12:00.000-05:00

John Martin (1789-1854) England
The Fall of Babylon,
Mezzotint with etching
1831

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org

Les Naiades de la mer

2011-11-03T12:01:00.000-05:00

Les Naiades de la mer (Les Océanides)
Gustave Doré c. 1860
Oil on canvas

Fuente: Darkclassics

Cronos

2011-11-02T18:24:00.003-05:00

Gaetano Previati, (Ferrara 1852 - Lavagna 1920)
Cronos

Fuente: darkclassics

Atala

2011-11-01T18:45:00.000-05:00

Gustave Doré, from Atala, by François-René de Chateaubriand,
Engraving
New York,1889

Fuente: http://www.archive.org/details/atalachateaubria00chat

Neptune calming the tempest

2011-10-31T17:00:00.000-05:00

Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1470/1482 - c. 1527/1534), printmaker
After Raphael (1483 - 1520), designer

Neptune calming the tempest (Quos Ego)

engraving, c. 1515 - 1516

Fuente: http://www.ashmolean.eu/ash/objects

The Fall of the Damned

2011-10-29T12:54:00.000-05:00

Peter Paul Rubens
Drawing for The Fall of the Damned
Flanders, about 1620-30

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects

Jason and the Dragon

2011-10-29T11:41:00.000-05:00

Salvator Rosa,
Jason and the Dragon 1663-64
Etching

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/s/salvator_rosa

Stone animals

2011-10-27T17:26:00.007-05:00

Stone animals, Rouen cathedral. From Gothic ornaments, selected from various ancient buildings
Augustus Pugin, London, 1854

Fuente: http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/post/325600487/gothic-animals

Rhea and Titan

2011-10-24T06:30:00.000-05:00

New image, captured June 16 2011, by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, highlights the stark differences between Saturn’s two largest moons.

Fuente: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/titan-rhea/

Les Fleurs du Mal

2011-10-23T12:11:00.000-05:00

Félix Bracquemond, frontispiece for Les Fleurs du Mal, of Beaudelaire.
From Prints and their makers, by Fitzroy Carrington, London, 1913

Fuente: http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/tagged/frontispiece/page/4

The Downfall of the Rebel Angels

2011-10-22T16:29:00.001-05:00

William Blake’s “The Downfall of the Rebel Angels” for Paradise Lost.
Engraving, c 1807

Fuente: http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/post/338959408/graemebooks-william-blakes-engraving-the

In Ictu Oculi

2011-10-20T17:17:00.002-05:00

In Ictu Oculi
Juan de Valdés Leal (Sevilla, 1622 - 1690)
Oil, 1672

Fuente: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:In_ictu_oculi.jpg

The Dammed

2011-10-15T20:13:00.008-05:00

(Click para agrandar)

Luca Signorelli 1445 - 1523
The Dammed (Detail)
Chapel of San Brizio, Orvieto Cathedral, c. 1499-1502

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luca_Signorelli_-_The_Damned

The Confusion of Tongues

2011-10-14T11:08:00.001-05:00

The Confusion of Tongues
Gustave Doré
La Sainte Bible 1866

Fuente: http://www.all-art.org/dore/history1-bible23_X.html

Death and the Devil

2011-10-13T06:16:00.000-05:00

Daniel Hopfer
Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women, circa 1500-10
Engraving

Fuente: http://metalonmetalblog.tumblr.com/archive

Myologie

2011-10-10T20:22:00.000-05:00

Jacques Gautier d’Agoty
Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, 1746

Fuente: http://scientificillustration.tumblr.com/archive

Dreaming dreams

2011-10-09T17:20:00.000-05:00

Gustave Doré
"Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"
Illustration from Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" 1884

Fuente: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17192/17192-h/17192-h.htm#Illustration10

The Devills Tryumph over Romes Idoll

2011-10-08T13:41:00.000-05:00

The Devill's Tryumph over Romes Idoll
Etching made by Francis Barlow,
England, 1680.

Fuente: http://baroque-art.livejournal.com/56496.html?thread=169136

Harlequin Shrimp

2011-10-07T08:39:00.000-05:00

Harlequin Shrimp
Scientific Name : Hymenocera Elegans, Hymenocera Picta
Origin : Indo-Pacific, Hawaii
Maximum Size : 3 inches

Fuente: http://rhamphotheca.tumblr.com/ask

September's Harvest Moon

2011-10-05T15:16:00.004-05:00

September's Harvest Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefano De Rosa
In silhouette against an orange lunar disk is Turin's hilltop Basilica of Superga

Fuente: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110916.html

The Rich Man in Hell

2011-10-03T11:15:00.000-05:00

The Rich Man in Hell
Engraving made by Aegidius Sadeler II, after Palma Vecchio.
Published by Marco Sadeler, Belgium, 1595.

Fuente: http://baroque-art.livejournal.com/56496.html?thread=169136

Red-eyed Tree Frog

2011-10-03T06:28:00.000-05:00

Red-eyed Tree Frog

Joe McDonald/Visuals Unlimite, Inc.

Fuente: http://www.sciencephoto.com/collection/visuals-unlimited-inc/list

Silence

2011-10-01T12:49:00.002-05:00

Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)
Silence
Oil

Fuente: https://picasaweb.google.com/101791235218214273979/PinturaRomantica

The Ingoldsby legends

2011-09-29T08:35:00.001-05:00

They’d such very odd heads and such very odd tails.
Arthur Rackham, from The Ingoldsby legends, by Thomas Ingoldsby
Richard H. Barham, London, New York, 1907.

Fuente: http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/

Cartone della Scuolla di Atene

2011-09-27T09:05:00.001-05:00

Giacomo Borgi (1822 - 1881) Fotografia

Cartone della Scuolla di Atene, Raffaello

Milano Ambrosiana

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Drawings_by_Raffaello_Sanzio

La ronde du Sabbat

2011-09-24T21:38:00.000-05:00

La ronde du Sabbat (The ring of Sabbath)

Louis Boulanger, from Cent dessins : extraits des oeuvres de Victor Hugo (One hundred drawings from the works of Victor Hugo), Paris, not dated (circa 1900?).

Fuente: http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/post/2317982484/boulanger-ronde-sabbat

Drosera capensis

2011-09-24T07:33:00.000-05:00

The leaf of a sundew (Drosera capensis) “bending” in response to the trapping of an insect.

(photo: Noah Elhardt)

Fuente: http://rhamphotheca.tumblr.com/archive

Stars

2011-09-23T08:58:00.000-05:00

M. C. Escher
Stars
Wood Engraving, 1948

Fuente: http://www.tigtail.org/

The Nightmare

2011-09-21T21:08:00.000-05:00

Thomas Burke, after Henry Fuseli
The Nightmare, published by John Raphael Smith, 30 January 1783
Stipple engraving
The Trustees of The British Museum

Fuente: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gothicnightmares/rooms/room1_works.htm#nightmareburke

The Fall of Babylon

2011-09-20T18:58:00.001-05:00

Jean Duvet (France, Dijon (?), 1485 - 1561)
The Fall of Babylon, circa 1555 Print, Engraving

Fuente: http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2008_03_09_archive.html

The Dying Lucretia

2011-09-18T08:43:00.001-05:00

The Dying Lucretia
Damián Campeny y Estany
1834
Marble
Palau de la Llotja, Barcelona

Fuente: http://www.wga.hu/art/c/campeny/lucretia.jpg

The Deluge

2011-09-16T07:06:00.000-05:00

Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
"The Deluge", Frontispiece to Doré's illustrated edition of the Bible.
1866

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD_protected/2009-08-16

Monument to Death

2011-09-15T08:51:00.001-05:00

After Andrea Andreani (1540 - 1623)

Emblematical Monument to Death

Pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized) on buff paper

Fuente: http://www.ashmolean.eu/ash/objects/drawings/WA1863.795.php

Neptune

2011-09-14T07:24:00.000-05:00

Formerly attributed to Giorgio Ghisi (1520 - 1582)
After Perino del Vaga (1501 - 1547), designer

Neptune seated blowing a horn, with two Tritons

engraving, 1541 - 1582

Fuente: http://www.ashmolean.eu/ash/objects/

Caecilian embryo

2011-09-13T06:55:00.002-05:00

Caecilian embryo
Group of amphibians, the Order GYMNOPHIONA (caecilians)

Fuente: http://silverfishattack.blogspot.com/2008/12/caecilians.html

Ornamenti del passato tempio

2011-09-10T08:54:00.001-05:00

Labacco, Antonio
Libro appartenente all'architettura, nel quale si figurano alcune notabili antiquita de Roma. [1567]

Fuente: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/ausgaben/thumbnailseite.html

St Michael triumphing over the dragon

2011-09-08T20:47:00.002-05:00

St Michael triumphing over the dragon
After Maerten de Vos
Published by Joan Baptista Vrints
Engraving 1585

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_

The Fall of the Rebel Angels (deatail)

2011-09-07T08:17:00.001-05:00

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Fall of the Rebel Angels
detail (1562, Oil on panel)

Fuente: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/

L'Ingratitude

2011-09-06T17:26:00.003-05:00

L'Ingratitude
Mercier, Emile, 1855-1910 -- Binder
Roger, Barthélemy Joseph Fulcran, 1767-1841 -- Engraver
Godefroy, Jean, 1771-1839 -- Engraver
Prud’hon, Pierre-Paul, 1758-1823 -- Artist

Fuente: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital

King Oedipus and Antigone

2011-09-04T20:43:00.002-05:00

King Oedipus and Antigone. 1835
Statue by Rudolph Tegner (1873-1950)
Rudolph Tegners Museum, Denmark.

Fuente: http://www.maicar.com/GML/Oedipus.html

Hercules

2011-09-02T17:58:00.001-05:00

Christoffel Jeger (1596-1652/53)

After Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Hercules woodcut, 1630s Bucharest

National Museum of Art of Romania

Fuente: http://io.ua/13687101

Mallophorina

2011-09-02T08:24:00.001-05:00

Mallophorina
Robber flies are visual predators, and their enormous eyes help them to capture prey in the air.
Arizona.

Image and text © Alex Wild 2011

Fuente: http://www.alexanderwild.com/insects

Cráneo fumando un cigarrillo

2011-08-31T15:31:00.006-05:00

Vincent Van Gogh
Cráneo fumando un cigarrillo (1885)
Óleo sobre lienzo. 32 × 24.5 cm.
Van Gogh Museum. Amsterdam

Fuente: http://www.epdlp.com/cuadro.php?id=3164

Crescent Neptune and Triton

2011-08-29T18:58:00.002-05:00

Crescent Neptune and Triton
Credit: Voyager 2 Spacecraft, NASA
1989

Fuente: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060618.html

Chromodoris elisabethina

2011-08-29T18:08:00.001-05:00

Chromodoris elisabethina
Fairyland, Sunshine Coast, Mooloolaba, Queensland Australia Size: 70 mm Depth: 20 m	Order: Nudibranchia Family: Chromodorididae

Fuente: http://www.nudibranch.com.au/pages/3781.htm

Mercury and Psyche

2011-08-28T18:17:00.000-05:00

Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626)
Mercury and Psyche. Bronze, 1593, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II.
Musée du Louvre

Fuente: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Devries-mercuriocrop.jpg

Hominibus semel mori

2011-08-28T12:11:00.003-05:00

"Statutum est hominibus semel mori" Hebr. IX

Fernando R. de la Flor Era melancólica. Figuras del imaginario barroco

Fuente: http://www.emblematica.com/blog/2007_06_01_archive.html

Nessus and Deianeira

2011-08-24T19:19:00.005-05:00

Hans Sebald Beham(1500-1550)

Nessus and Deianeira; reverse copy
Engraving

Fuente: http://marinni.livejournal.com/608500.html#cutid1

Glaucus atlanticus

2011-08-22T14:34:00.003-05:00

Glaucus atlanticus
Queensland, Australia
Tamaño 35-40 mm
Profundidad: en la playa

Fuente : http://www.nudibranch.com.au/

Orden: Nudibranchia
Familia: Glaucidae

Charon carries souls

2011-08-21T11:55:00.005-05:00

Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko( 1835 - 1890)
Charon carries souls across the river Styx 1861
Oil on canvas
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lytovchenko_Olexandr_Kharon.jpg

Muscles

2011-08-20T13:33:00.002-05:00

Muscles, William Cowper.
From Book "Myotomia reformata, or, An anatomical treatise on the muscles of the human body"
1694

Fuente: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/

Melancolia

2011-08-19T07:57:00.003-05:00

Albrecht Dürer [ Nürnberg, 1471 - Nürnberg, 1528 ]

Melancolia I

1514 Engraving

Fuente; http://collection.nmwa.go.jp/artizewebeng/search_7_detail.do

Aeoliscus strigatus

2011-08-16T16:36:00.001-05:00

"Razorfish" Aeoliscus strigatus

One look at the position of their small fins tells you they are wll-adapted to swim head-down, instead of in the conventional horizontal manner like most fish.

Fuente: http://www.divegallery.com/razorfish.htm

Potamotrygon hystrix

2011-08-15T22:24:00.002-05:00

Trygon histrix now called Potamotrygon hystrix - the Porcupine river stingray
from: ‘Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale’ by Alcide d’Orbigny

Fuente: http://scientificillustration.tumblr.com/post/8485558835/

Bee

2011-08-15T20:13:00.006-05:00

Bee
‘Leben und Zucht der Honigbiene -
ein gemeinverständliches Lehrbuch über Behandlung der Bienen und
über Tätigkeit, Nutzen und Anatomie der Biene’ 1922 by Oskar Krancher

Fuente: http://scientificillustration.tumblr.com/post/7611760866/