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

Silence

Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)
Silence
Oil

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

The Ingoldsby legends

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

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

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

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

M. C. Escher
Stars
Wood Engraving,  1948

Fuente:  http://www.tigtail.org/

The Nightmare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ornamenti del passato tempio

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

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)

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

Fuente: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/

L'Ingratitude

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

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

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

Hercules

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

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