Classical Art

<n>Selene</n> (1880) by French artist <n>Albert Aublet</n>.

<n>Autumn Tangle</n> (1920) by artist <n>William Henry Holmes</n>.

<n>A sleeping cat</n>, an 1898 oil on panel painting by <n>Henriette Ronner-Knip</n>.

<n>The Fairy Flowers, Narcissus</n> (2008) by <n>Anna Balbusso</n> and <n>Elena Balbusso</n>, inspired by <n>H. C. Andersen</n>.

An <n>anthropomorphized flower postcard</n> produced in Italy, circa 1918.

Detail from <n>The dish of pearls</n> by <n>Pierre Mignard</n>.

A detail from the 1903 <n>Pre-Raphaelite</n> painting <n>Echo and Narcissus</n> by <n>John William Waterhouse</n>.

<n>The Orbs Of Fire, Water, Thunder, Air And Darkness</n>, a digital edit by <n>g0djin</n>.

<n>The Library of Thorvald Boeck</n> (1902) by Norwegian artist <n>Harriet Backer</n>.

<n>David with the Head of Goliath</n>, a <n>Baroque</n> painting by <n>Pietro Novelli</n>, ca. 1630s.

<n>David and Saul</n> (1885), an oil on canvas by Swedish painter <n>Julius Kronberg</n>.

<n>The Sorceress</n> (1887) by <n>Georges Merle</n>.

<n>Doe and Two Fawns</n> (1882) by artist <n>Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait</n>.

<n>Young Woman Holding a Sunflower</n> (c. 1647) by Dutch artist <n>Bartholomeus van der Helst</n>.

A 19th-century <n>phenakistoscope</n> disc, an early animation device, with illustrations of birds, butterflies, and a man jumping.

<n>Back of a Woman's Head</n>, a painting by <n>Torsten Wasastjerna</n>.

Detail from <n>Portrait of a Woman</n> (1696) by artist <n>Nicolas de Largillière</n>.

A detail from <n>Venus and Cupid</n> (1860) by artist <n>Pierre-Maximilien Delafontaine</n>.

A detail from "<n>Abraham del Court and his wife Maria de Kaersgieter</n>" (1654) by <n>Bartholomeus van der Helst</n>.

Title page for <n>Maria Sibylla Merian</n>'s 1679 book, <n>Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung</n>.

Detail from a 16th-century German painting of <n>St. John the Evangelist</n>.

<n>Bastet</n>, a painting by artist <n>Emile Corsi</n>.

<n>Diana and Endymion</n> by <n>Johann Grund</n>.

Shell in a bowl by <n>Simeon Nijenhuis</n>.

<n>Woman Reading (The Artist's Wife)</n> (1962) by artist <n>Aaron Shikler</n>.

A detail from <n>The Abduction of Psyche</n> (1895) by artist <n>William-Adolphe Bouguereau</n>.

<n>Jeune fille de face</n> (1899) by <n>Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola</n>.

<n>Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles</n> (c. 1663), a painting by Dutch artist <n>Karel Dujardin</n>.

A detail from <n>Gustave Courbet</n>'s 1863 painting, <n>Nude with Flowering Branch</n>.