Brachypelma smithi.

Brachypelma smithi.

Guido Mocafico. 2006

Aranea Serie

Fuente: http://www.guidomocafico.com/ar1.html

Study of a skull

Study of a skull by Leonardo da Vinci

1510-1511 

Pen and ink

Fuente: http://www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/leonardo-da-vinci-anatomy.html

Phycodurus eques

 

Phycodurus eques (dragón de mar foliado,  leafy sea dragon) 
Oeste de Australia,  habita en aguas templadas y poco profundas.

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

Trauma Surgery

Feldtbüch der Wundartzney (1517) by Hans von Gersdorff

Trauma Surgery

Fuente: http://collectmedicalantiques.com/main-collection

Everything is Vanity

 

Everything is Vanity', a mezzotint by German artist Johann Jakob Haid (who worked with Johann Ridinger on a botanical series). {undated but ~1750}

Fuente: http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/recent/haid.html

Venus

 

Giovanni Folo, Italian (1764-1836)

Venus sailing on a Mussel Shell
After Bernardino Nocchi

Engraving, partly executed with knurl.

Fuente: http://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/collections/andre_kunstneres_grafik?order=&page=14

L'Architecture Considérée Sous le Rapport de l'Art'

'L'Architecture Considérée Sous le Rapport de l'Art' (1804) by the Neo-classical French architect, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux.

Fuente: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/11/dumpster-diving.html

Arithmetica

Anonymous

Print.

Arithmetic in form of woman holding clock.

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

Chrysaora achlyos

Guido Mocafico

Medusa Chrysaora achlyos.

2002

Fuente: http://www.guidomocafico.com/p.html

Behemoth y Leviathan

William Blake

“Behemoth y Leviathan,”  Ilustración para el Libro de Job, c. 1805–10

Fuente: http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but551&java=yes

Massacre of the Innocents

Michel Corneille the younger
Michel Corneille the elder

Massacre of the Innocents,  c. 1650?
Executed by Michel Corneille the Younger or the Elder. After Raphael

Engraving

Fuente: http://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/collections/andre_kunstneres_grafik?order=&page=11

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Pieter Bruegel the Elder  

The  Fall of the Rebel Angels,  1562

Fuente: http://www.ulike.net/The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels

Naja samarensis

  

Guido Mocafico  2002

Naja samarensis  (Serpens)

Fuente: http://www.guidomocafico.com/p.html

Leda and the Swan

Leda and the Swan

Cornelis Bos

Netherlandish printmaker (b. ca. 1506, 's-Hertogenbosch, d. ca. 1564)

Engraving, 305 x 407 mm
British Museum, London

Fuente: http://www.wga.hu/index_co.html

Odysseus crater

 The vast expanse of the crater Odysseus 

(450 kilometers or 280 miles across)

NASA Mission Cassini.  Saturn's moon Tethys. 2010

Fuente: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia08400.html

Allegory of Vice and Virtue

Andrea Mantegna, Allegory of Vice and Virtue, a drawing

Italy, around AD 1490

'Virtus Combusta' ('Virtue in flames') / Allegory of the Fall of Ignorant Humanity

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/a/andrea_mantegna,_allegory_of_v.aspx

Allegory of the Transience of Life

Master IAM of Zwolle (anonimous, around 1440-1504), 

Allegory of the Transience of Life, coloured engraving on vellum

The Netherlands, about AD 1480-90

Fuente:  http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/m/master_iam_of_zwolle_around_1.aspx

The Head of the Virgin

Leonardo da Vinci  (1452–1519

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right

Form  the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Musée du Louvre, Paris)1508–12
MediumBlack chalk, charcoal, and red chalk, with some traces of white chalk  

Fuente: http://www.metmuseum.org/

Uteri Muliebris Fabrica

Jan Swammerdam. Miraculum Naturæ, sive, Uteri Muliebris Fabrica ... Leiden: Apud Severinum Matthæi, 1672

Fuente:http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/anatomia/experiment/swammerdam.html

Surinam caiman

Maria Sibylla Merian, 

(1647-1717)

A Surinam caiman fighting a South American false coral snake,  drawing

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/m/maria_sibylla_merian,_a_surina.aspx