medieval to modernity (mostly). fluctuates with current interests.

art history

Detail of the <n>Punishment of the Envious</n> from the 11th-12th century <n>Last Judgment Mosaic</n> in Venice.

<n>The Tower of Babel</n>, a 1563 painting by <n>Pieter Bruegel the Elder</n>.

<n>Summer</n> (1563) by artist <n>Giuseppe Arcimboldo</n>.

<n>Skull</n>, an 1887 oil on canvas painting by <n>Vincent van Gogh</n>.

<n>Christ as the Man of Sorrows</n>, a hand-colored woodcut by an anonymous 15th-century German artist, ca. 1470–80.

<n>The Smiling Spider</n>, a <n>Symbolist</n> charcoal drawing by <n>Odilon Redon</n>, c. 1891.

A 1912 French Catholic illustration from <n>Le Pèlerin</n> magazine depicts Death looming over Freemasons.

<n>William Blake</n>'s relief etching <n>The Ancient of Days</n> (1827), depicting the figure <n>Urizen</n>.

<n>Gråtådal, Beiarn</n>, a photograph taken by <n>Charles Rabot</n> in Norway circa 1881.

Tapestry <n>Hercules supporting the celestial sphere</n>, c. 1520-1530. Designed by <n>Bernaert van Orley</n>.

A detail from <n>The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind</n> (1568) by <n>Pieter Bruegel the Elder</n>.

<n>Capillary Locomotion</n> (1959), a <n>Surrealist</n> painting by <n>Remedios Varo</n>.

<n>Mondrian's Studio</n> in Paris, photographed by <n>André Kertész</n> in 1926.

<n>Golconda</n> (1953) by <n>Surrealist</n> artist <n>René Magritte</n>.

The skull of <n>Saint Valentine</n>, a relic housed in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome.

A 1935 photograph by <n>Peter Sekaer</n> shows photographer <n>Walker Evans</n> in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

A mid-11th century miniature of the constellations from the <n>Iatromathematical calendar book</n>.

<n>The Man of Sorrows</n>, an oil on wood painting by the <n>Workshop of Aelbert Bouts</n>, c. 1495-1500.

<n>Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi</n>'s <n>Presentation Drawing of 'The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World'</n>, 1875.

<n>Still Life with Game Suspended on Hooks</n> (c. 1640) by <n>Frans Snyders</n>.

<n>Symbol of fascism</n>, a 1928 anti-fascist photomontage by artist <n>John Heartfield</n> depicting <n>Benito Mussolini</n>.

<n>A Peasant Yawning</n>, an engraving from ca. 1633 by <n>Lucas Vorsterman I</n> after <n>Pieter Bruegel the Elder</n>.

<n>Saint Veronica, Prayer to the Holy Face</n>, a miniature from <n>The Hours of Henry IV of France</n>.

A <n>Ceremonial Object in the Shape of an Ax</n> from Indonesia, c. 500 B.C.–A.D. 300, held at <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

Detail from <n>Fra Angelico</n>'s <n>The decapitation of St Cosmas and Damian</n>, part of the <n>San Marco Altarpiece</n> (c. 1438-42).

The 'Death' panel from <n>Hans Memling</n>'s <n>Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation</n> triptych, c. 1485.

The icon <n>Birth of Christ</n> (c. 1405) by Russian artist <n>Andrei Rublev</n>.

<n>Tránsito en espiral</n>, a 1962 <n>Surrealist</n> painting by artist <n>Remedios Varo</n>.

Outer wall of the <n>Saqqara tomb of Uadji</n> with <n>clay bull-heads</n>, from <n>The Riddle of the Pyramids</n>.

<n>Thomas Merton</n> playing <n>bongos</n> in a 1968 photograph by <n>Ralph Eugene Meatyard</n>.

The <n>Meidum Pyramid</n> in Egypt, from the 1955 book 'Egypt' by photographer <n>Eugen Kusch</n>.

<n>Ecce Homo; The Disrobing of Christ</n> (ca. 1525–30) by Dutch artist <n>Cornelis Engebrechtsz.</n>

<n>Cigarette No. 48, New York</n>, a 1972 photograph by <n>Irving Penn</n>.

<n>Occasion for Diriment</n>, a 1962 photograph by <n>Ralph Eugene Meatyard</n>.

Stoneware <n>Mug</n> by <n>Charles Volkmar</n> for the <n>Volkmar Ceramic Company</n>, ca. 1896–1903.

<n>Artemisia Gentileschi</n>'s painting, <n>Judith Slaying Holofernes</n>, c. 1620.

<n>Ex Voto, The Green Cross of Tequisquiapan</n>, a 19th-century Mexican painting by <n>José M</n>.

Photo "<n>Balzac, The Silhouette—4 A.M.</n>" (1908) by <n>Edward J. Steichen</n> of <n>Auguste Rodin</n>'s sculpture.