Pietà

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

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

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org

Christmas tree worm

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

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

El Juicio Final

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

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

The Enigma

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


                                                   Fuente: http://www.musee-orsay

The Destruction of the Empire

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

1878

Mihály Zichy (1827–1906

Oil on canvas

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org/

Tubastrea Coral Polyp

Coral Polyp (Single Polyp)
Identification: Tubastrea sp.

                                             Fuente: http://www.divegallery.com

Death dealing arrows.

Death dealing arrows

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

London, 1903.

Fuente: archive.org

Parsifal

Parsifal
Jean Delville  (1867 1953)
Collection Delville, Brussels

Date: 1890
Technique: Drawing

Fuente: http://www.jeandelville.org

Edgar Allan Poe Tales

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

Fuente: http://darkclassics.blogspot.com

The Oreads

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

Fuente: http://www.musee-orsay

The Ride of the Valkyrs

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

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

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

Fuente: http://poisonwasthecure

Sea Anemones

Class ANTHOZOA - 
Sea Anemones and Corals

Fuente: http://silverfishattack.blogspot.com

The Masque of the Red Death

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

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

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

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

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

Fuente:  http://darkclassics.blogspot.com

Liberty

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

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

Fuente: http://www.tunickart.com

The Fall of Babylon

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

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org

Les Naiades de la mer

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

Fuente: Darkclassics

Cronos

Gaetano Previati,  (Ferrara 1852 -  Lavagna 1920)
Cronos


Fuente:  darkclassics

Atala

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


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

Neptune calming the tempest

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

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

Salvator Rosa,
 Jason and the Dragon 1663-64
Etching


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

Stone animals

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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

Myologie

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

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

Dreaming dreams

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

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

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

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

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

Joe McDonald/Visuals Unlimite, Inc. 

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