The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by Katsushika Hokusai (1814)
Jan Luyken (Dutch, 1649–1712)
"Christus aanschouwt de gepersonifieerde ziel die door vlammen wordt omringd" ("Christ beholds the personified soul surrounded by flames"), ca. 1678–1687
Rijksmuseum
Title: Reading Artist: Kuroda Seiki (Japanese, 1866-1924) Date: 1891 Genre: figure painting Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 98.2 cm (38.6 in) high x 78.8 cm (31 in) wide Location: Tokyo National Museum
Girl's Head beside a Skull, Rex Whistler
William Orpen (British/Irish, 1878-1931) • Window in London • 1901 • National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Still Life (In An Airshaft), Joel-Peter Witkin, 1967
"He cut off his nose to be revenged of his face."
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose, 1788
A rare 1934 photograph from the interwar Czechoslovakian group Fotoskupina pěti (F5), an avant-garde class of five students: Jaroslav Nohel, Josef Jiří Kamenický, František Povolný, Bohumil Němec and Hugo Táborský.
Skeleton Series, Théodore Philippe Liano, also known as Teodoro Filippo di Liagno, called Napoletano, c. 1620s
"Heu quai Mors non cuitabile telum quo preunt homines"