Mélusine

Mélusine

P. Christian. Histoire de la Magie. Paris : Furne, 1884. 

Metal engraving

Fuente: http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/imagerecord.php?record=69

Chiragra arthritica rugosa

Rugose Spider Conch.   Shell size 120 - 170 mm.   c Pacific 

Stromboidea Family

Fuente: http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_4462.shtml

Daphne

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Apollo and Daphne

Life-size marble sculpture, begun by Bernini at the age of twenty-four and executed between 1622 and 1625

Fuente: http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edafne.htm

Músculos

Faustino  Anderloni    1766-1847

Anatomía. Músculos del cuello y  hombro

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

Lutetia

 

Fotografía en primer plano del asteroide Lutetia, una reliquia cubierta de cráteres que proviene del nacimiento del sistema solar.  10 de julio de 2010.  Crédito: ESA.

Nave espacial Rosetta, de la Agencia Espacial Europea (European Space Agency, ESA) 

Fuente: http://ciencia.nasa.gov/astronomia/14jul_rosetta/

Haliphron atlanticus

Seven Armed Octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) from Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, prince souverain de Monaco fascicule #9, by J. de Guerne & Ch. Richard.

Fuente: http://rhamphotheca.tumblr.com/post/6357165141/oral-view-of-seven-armed-octopus-haliphron

Cervical fascia

The superficial layer of the cervical fascia by Erich Lepier from Eduard Pernkopf’s Topographische Anatomie des Menschen.

Fuente: http://scientificillustration.tumblr.com/page/32

El Rapto de la Sabina

 

Jean Boulogne (Douai, 1529 - Florencia 1608),  Giovanni Da Bologna  (Giambologna)

El Rapto de la Sabina  (1574-82)

Mármol.  Florencia Ufizzi

Fuente: http://raquelrodriguezarte.blogspot.com/

Avarice

 

Avarice, Print, Engraving.

Circa 1587

Plate 6 from Matham's series The Vices

Jacob Matham (1571–1631)

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

Flour beetle

 

Flour beetle
This false coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) shows a flour beetle. Flour beetles are members of the species Tribolium  and are adapted to survive in very dry environments and often found on stored products.

Credit Kevin MacKenzie, University of Aberdeen

Scanning electron micrograph 2010
Collection: Wellcome Images

Fungi

 

Various fungi - 16 species, including Jew's ear (Auricularia auricula), puffballs (Lycoperdon) and Agaricus and Boletus species. 

Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur

1827 By: Prieur after: A. Cornillon and Michel Etienne Descourtilz
Paris,  1827

Fuente:  http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/

De motu cordis

 

LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654-1720).  

De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus, opus posthumum in duas partes divisum. 

Rome, Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728

  

Fuente: http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2011/02/heart.html

L'éclipse

 

 

Photo de l'éclipse totale de soleil de 1999. Photo ayant servie à la réalisation des affiches, visuels merchandising, dvd, pour le film Twilight Eclipse

Photography by  Luc Viatour

Fuente: http://www.lucnix.be/gallery2/

Lucifer: le Génie du Mal

 

Guillaume Geefs  (1805-1883)

Lucifer: le Génie du Mal, dans la cathédrale Saint-Paul, à Liège, 1848

Photography by Luc Viatour, 2008

Fuente: http://www.lucnix.be/main.php?g2_itemId=16576

Satyr and nymph

After a work attributed to Marco Dente (da Ravenna) (c. 1493 - 1527), printmaker
After Giulio Romano (Pippi) (1499 - 1546), designer

A satyr carrying a nymph

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

Filogranella elatensis

Filogranella elatensis

This is a close shot of a worm colony, which normally consists of dozens of similar rigid tubes sheltering serpulid worms.

Authors of description of  F. elatensis are Dr. Jacob Dafni and Dr. N. Ben-Eliahu

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

Egyptian Cat

Bronze figure of a egyptian cat

From Saqqara, Egypt
Late Period, after 600 BC

Height: 42.000 cm
Width: 13.000 cm

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

Utriusque cosmi maioris

 

Robert Fludd (1574-1637). Utriusque cosmi maioris

scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque

technica histori. Oppenheim, 1619.

Fuente: http://www.dekleurenschaar.nl/fluddsite/html/afbeeldingen_fludd.html

Two marine monsters

Giovanni Andrea Maglioli (active 1580 - 1610), printmaker

Two marine monsters

engraving, 1580 - 1610

Fuente: http://www.ashmolean.eu/

The Inferno

The Inferno

Anonymous Florentine (Fine Manner), printmaker
After a work attributed to Andrea di Cione, (called Orcagna) (c. 1315/1320 - 1368), designer
After a work attributed to Francesco Traini (active 1321 - 1345), designer

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

Battle of the Sea Gods

Andrea Mantegna (1430/1431 - 1506), printmaker

Battle of the Sea Gods

Engraving, c.1470 - c.1500

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

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss

 

"Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss"
Antonio Canova
1787, white marble, 61 in.
Louvre Museum (Paris, France)

Fuente; http://forrestloder.posterous.com/?tag=art&page=4

The Lewis Chessmen

The Lewis Chessmen  (elaborately worked walrus ivory)

Probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200 | Found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/

Coral crab

Trapezia rufopunctata

"Coral crab" is a general, unscientific term referring to those crabs which depend on a coral for shelter and livelihood, including either soft or hard corals.

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

La Danaide

La Danaide, 1885

Mármol blanco,   Musee Rodin, Paris

Rodin Auguste 1840-1917

Fuente: http://www.chapitre.com

Nouvelles tables anatomiques

 

Bourdon, Amé (1636 or 1638-1706).

Nouvelles tables anatomiques.

Publication Information: Cambray: Chez l'autheur; Paris: Laurens d'Houry, 1678.

Fuente: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/browse.html

Cyclichthys orbicularis

Cyclichthys orbicularis

Pufferfish (family Tetraodontidae),  the Rounded porcupinefish is one of the smaller of around 20 porcupinefish species 

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

Death on a Pale Horse

 

John Haynes after John Hamilton Mortimer
Death on a Pale Horse, 1784
Etching,on paper, 710 x 510 mm
© Copyright the Trustees of The British Museum

Fuente: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gothicnightmares/rooms/

Dresden

 

Blick auf Dresden vom Rathausturm, 1945

Richard Peter ( 1895 - 1977)

Fuente: http://www.territorioscuola.com/wikipedia/es.wikipedia.php?title=Richard_Peter

 

Umbonia crassicornis

 

Thornbug - Umbonia crassicornis

Frenchman's Forest Natural Area, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA

Copyright © 2004  Tony DiTerlizzi

Fuente: http://bugguide.net/node/view/4387/bgpage

Satan and his Legions

James Barry
Satan and his Legions Hurling Defiance Toward The Vault of Heaven circa 1792-1794
Etching,and engraving.

Fuente: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gothicnightmares/rooms/room3.htm