Bornella stellifer

Bornella stellifer
(Adams & Reeve, 1848)

Order:NUDIBRANCHIA DENDRONOTINA
Bornellidae

Fuente: http://www.seaslugforum.net/bornstel.htm

Actinoscyphia sp

Bioluminescent mucus secreted from the venus fly trap anemone (Actinoscyphia sp.)
The Johnsen Lab

Fuente: http://www.biology.duke.edu/

Invidiam

Invidiam  (Enviadia)

Jacob de Gheyn II(1565 - 1629)

Grabdado

Fuente: http://marinni.livejournal.com/

La Batalla de Lepanto

La Batalla de Lepanto
Gustave Doré,   "Historia de Las Cruzadas"
Grabado,  1892

Fuente: http://www.archive.org/

The Battle of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama

Cornelis Cort,  (1533-1578) 
The Battle of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama,  1567
Engraving after a drawing variously attributed to Raphael (1483-1520), Gianfrancesco Penni (1496-after 1528) or Giulio Romano (1492-1546)

Fuente: http://www.tunickart.com/artists/cort.html

The head of Medusa

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
The head of Medusa, ca. 1617-18
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Fuente: http://www.codart.nl/

La pensée

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)La penséeCirca 1895Marble head; rough hewn baseParis, Musée d'Orsay
Fuente: blog

The Dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus

The Dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus, 1588
Hendrik Goltzius (publisher/printer; printmaker; painter/draughtsman; Dutch;  1558 - 1617)
Engraving

Fuente: http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/

The rich man and death

Frans Francken the Younger  (1581 - 1642) 
The rich man and death (?)
16.5 x 13 cm
Oil on copper
Kunstsammlung der Universität, Göttingen

Fuente: http://www.pubhist.com/

Orchid Mantis

Orchid Mantis
Hymenopus coronatus
Malaysian orchid praying mantis

Fuente: http://photo.net/photos/siwanowicz

La Mort et le bûcheron

Millet, Jean-Francois 1814-1875

"La Mort et le Bucheron" (Death and the woodcutter), 1858/59.-(After a tale by La Fontaine).

Oil on canvas

Fuente: http://www.kunst-fuer-alle.de/

Hekate

Ekate

Maximilian Pirner (1854 – 1929)

Date: 1901
Technique: Pastel/paper, 55 x 89 cm

Fuente:  http://www.szecesszio.com/

Mors nulli parcit

Mors nulli parcit  (La muerte a nadie perdona)

Ilustración de los hermanos De Bry's del libro  'Emblemata Saecularia' (Frankfurt). 1592

Grabado.

Fuente: http://marinni.livejournal.com/

Immortality

Immortality- Illustration in the journal "Iskra", Bulgaria, 1891.

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org/

The Flight of Moloch

William Blake (1809)  The Flight of Moloch,
 Watercolour 
One of Blake's illustrations of  the poem by John Milton

Fuente:  http://www.answers.com/topic/moloch

Apollo citharoedus

Apollo citharoedus
Mármol
Copia romana del siglo I,   original  del escultor griego Escopas,  siglo IV a. C.
Fotografía de Ricardo André Frantz

Fuente: http://tetraktys.multiply.com/

Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis

Füssli, Johann Heinrich, 1741-1825
Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis,  1794, 96
Oil on canvas

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org

Anatomia

Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno ricercata,  Roma 1691

Bernardino Genga
(1636?-1734?)
Charles Errard (1609?-1689) ill.

Fuente: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy

Twelve grotesque figures

Denis Boutemie

Twelve grotesque figures ,  1638

Engraving

Fuente: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

The Barque of Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell)

The Barque of Dante ,1822   (Dante and Virgil in Hell)
Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
Oil on canvas
Louvre, Paris

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org

Prometheus

Richard Cosway
Prometheus circa 1785-1800
Pen and brown ink on paper, 225 x184 mm
Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library

Fuente: http://www.tate.org.uk

Lantern Bug

Thomas Marent/Visuals Unlimited, Inc. /SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Lantern Bug (Fulgora), Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.

Fuente: http://www.sciencephoto.com

Knight, Death and the Devil, Detail

Albrecht Dürer.  1471-1528
Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513,  Detail Sign by Durero
Rotterdam, Museum Boijman

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia

La Rou du Monde

Jean Delville, Belgium, 1867-1953
La Rou du Monde, 1940, oil on canvas, 299 x 231, Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Art

                                                 Fuente: http://jeandelville.org

Eve tempted by the serpent

Eve tempted by the serpent
Edward Francis Burney  1760-1848 England
Engraving


                       Fuente: http://www.paradiselost.org/4-stories-pictures.html

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