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