Paradise or the Garden of Eden

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Paradise or the Garden of Eden with the Countries circumjacent inhabited by the Patriarchs

Author/creator: Moxon, Joseph
Date:  1690

British Library Board

Fuente: http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/maphist/deception/mapparadise/eden1690.html

Centaur and Lapith

Phidias Parthenon sculptures:  Centaur and Lapith

The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, around 440 BC

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/p/parthenon_sculpture_metope.aspx

Who art Thou, White Face?

Leonora Carrington.

Who art Thou, White Face?, 1959

Oleo sobre tela.

Fuente: http://jameshoodillustration.blogspot.com/2011/05/leonora-carrington-1917-2011.html

L'anatomie de l'homme

Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme  

1831

Brain, spinal cord, spinal nerves and filaments.

Jacob, Nicolas Henri, 1781-1871

Lithography, with hand-colouring

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

The Grand Canyon of Mars

The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep.

Credit: Viking Project, USGS, NASA

Fuente: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110327.html

Hanging Out

Some Flying Foxes hanging out at Parramatta Park

Image Credit Flickr User Ausiegall

Fuente: http://www.arkinspace.com/2010/05/masters-of-night-top-ten-nocturnal.html

The Antennae

  

A suggestive visual appearance of the extended arcing structures gives the galaxy pair its popular name: The Antennae

Image Credit & Copyright:  - Andrey Oreshko (Elena Remote Observatory),
Processing - Dietmar Hager (stargazer-observatory)

Fuente: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110429.html

Memento Mori

A memento mori as New Year greeting, about 1500 

"Hans KVRCZ" is inscribed, on the mirror: "ZIT BRINGT ALLE DING"

Fuente: http://cosmodromium.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html

Melencolia

Melencolia

1539
Print made by Sebald Beham    (1500–1550) German printmaker

Fuente: http://art-links.livejournal.com/1698327.html 

Death the Strangler

Alfred Rethel,  Death the Strangler 

The first outbreak of cholera at a masked ball in Paris 1831

Engraving

Fuente:  http://darkclassics.blogspot.com/2010/12/alfred-rethel-death-strangler-first.html 

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