ART IS LIFE

The <n>Smooth-head blobfish</n>, a deep-sea fish widely known as an internet meme.

<n>The Anatomical Angel</n> (1746), a mezzotint by <n>Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty</n>.

Detail from an illuminated manuscript depicting the <n>Beast of the Apocalypse</n>. Salisbury, circa 1250.

<n>The Virgin of the Expectation</n>, a painting by an anonymous Spanish painter, c. 1510.

A photograph of the ancient ruins of <n>Persepolis</n>, Iran, taken by <n>Luigi Pesce</n>.

The ornate ceiling of the <n>Tila Kari Madrasah</n> in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Artwork by <n>Outsider Art</n> artist <n>Solange Knopf</n>.

Detail from the painting <n>Cleopatra</n> (1524-1526) by the artist <n>Giampietrino</n>.

<n>Destruction of Leviathan</n>, an 1865 engraving by artist <n>Gustave Doré</n>.

<n>The Crystal Castle</n> concept art for The Dark Crystal by <n>Brian Froud</n>.

Illustration of the <n>Stele of Guelaât es-Snam</n> from Tunisia, after a drawing by <n>G. Camps</n>.

A <n>Neo-Assyrian</n> relief panel from the <n>Royal Lion Hunt</n> series (645-635 BC), found in Nineveh. Now in <n>The British Museum</n>.

Detail from the <n>Kudurru of King Melishipak I</n> (1186-1172 BCE), showing the <n>crescent moon of Sîn</n> and the <n>star of Ishtar</n>.

<n>L'antica porta d'ingrezza a Persepolis</n> (1858) by <n>Luigi Pesce</n>.

<n>Claude Monet</n>'s <n>Impressionist</n> painting, <n>Cliff Walk at Pourville</n>, from 1882.

An illustration from <n>Augustine of Hippo</n>'s <n>De Civitate Dei</n>, translated by <n>Raoul de Presles</n>, c. 1370-1380.

A 19th-century Tibetan <n>Sgra-Snyan</n> musical instrument from the collection of <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

<n>Vue vers les Pyramides de Gizeh</n>, a photograph of the <n>Pyramids of Giza</n> from the 1870s.

An illustration of the idol <n>Moloch</n>, titled 'Der Götze Moloch mit seinen 7 Raumen oder Capellen'.

<n>Springtime and Love</n>, an 1878 painting by Italian artist <n>Francesco Paolo Michetti</n>.

<n>Study for Flooded Bell Tower II: An Imaginary Belfry</n> (2016) by <n>Denis Forkas</n>.

The <n>Epithalamium of Peleus and Thetis</n> tapestry, designed by <n>Giulio Romano</n> circa 1531.

<n>The Whore of Babylon</n> from the Apocalypse Polyptych (c. 1360-90) by artist <n>Jacobello Alberegno</n>.

<n>The Harvest</n> (1851) by French painter <n>Charles-François Daubigny</n>.

A detail from <n>The Fall of the Damned</n> (c. 1470), a painting by artist <n>Dirk Bouts</n>.

The <n>Azib n'Ikis petroglyph</n>, a rock carving from the High Atlas mountains in Morocco.

A sheet brass sculpture created by the <n>Saulteaux (Plains Ojibwa)</n> in 1870.

<n>Saint Blasius</n>, a painting by <n>Antonio Molleno</n> from circa 1815.

Illustration for <n>Marie de France</n>'s lai Bisclavret, from a 1481 German translation by <n>Ludwig Hetzer</n>.

The <n>Phoenix Cape</n> from the 1963 film <n>Cleopatra</n>, worn by <n>Elizabeth Taylor</n> and designed by <n>Irene Sharaff</n>.

<n>Tableau des Tifinagh</n>, a chart comparing regional variations of the Tuareg alphabet by <n>Salem Chaker</n>.

A photograph of ruins at <n>Persepolis</n> by <n>Luigi Pesce</n>, taken circa 1848–1858.

Detail from the <n>Rothschild Canticles</n>, an illuminated manuscript from c. 1300.