Inspiration for Art

Actor <n>Kim Novak</n> in the 1958 film <n>Bell, Book and Candle</n>.

Actress <n>Katie McGrath</n> in a portrait widely used as a "face claim" in fan communities.

<n>Florence Welch</n> for <n>Sorbet Magazine</n>.

<n>Hands of Jean Cocteau</n> by photographer <n>Berenice Abbott</n>, 1927.

<n>Solarized hand study</n>, a 1934 photograph by <n>Maurice Tabard</n>.

Actor <n>Anna Karina</n> in <n>Le Petit Soldat</n> (1963), directed by <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>.

An image created using <n>Midjourney</n>.

Actor <n>Anna Karina</n> in the 1965 <n>French New Wave</n> film <n>Alphaville</n>, directed by <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>.

<n>Audrey Hepburn</n> and her pet deer <n>Pippin</n>, photographed by <n>Bob Willoughby</n> in 1958.

<n>Audrey Hepburn</n> photographed by <n>Earl Theisen</n> for <n>Look</n> magazine in 1953.

Surrealist photograph by artist <n>Naya Kotko</n>.

The <n>Simple Coffee Container</n> by <n>Natalia Criado</n> from the <n>Gems at Home</n> collection.

<n>Earthen movement</n>, a ceramic sculpture by <n>Uli Zwerger</n>.

Detail of <n>Bacchus and Ariadne</n> (c. 1600) by <n>Domenico Fiasella</n>.

<n>Cephalopodes fossiles et vivants</n> from '<n>Les Mollusques Marins du Roussillon</n>' (1882) by <n>E. Bucquoy</n> and <n>Phillippe Dautzenberg</n>.

Students at <n>Vassar College</n> in 1895.

<n>A dream in the red chamber</n> (2012) by photographer <n>Veneta Karamfilova</n>.

<n>Audrey Hepburn</n> studying the script for '<n>Ondine</n>' in 1954. Photo by <n>Mark Shaw</n>.

Silk brocade ball gown from 1890, designed by <n>Charles Frederick Worth</n>.

A photograph from the <n>Tights and Lips</n> series by photographer <n>Daido Moriyama</n>.

The <n>Homesick Poster</n> by <n>sigh designs</n>, featuring art by <n>John Collier</n>.

<n>Francesca Annis</n> as <n>Lady Macbeth</n> in <n>Roman Polanski</n>'s 1971 film <n>Macbeth</n>.

A New York bedroom designed by <n>Parish-Hadley</n> with a sleigh bed by <n>SCHNELLER</n>. Photo by <n>William P. Steele</n>.

A 1959 portrait of <n>Audrey Hepburn</n> by photographer <n>Richard Avedon</n>.

<n>Audrey Hepburn</n> photographed by <n>Leo Fuchs</n> in the Belgian Congo during the filming of <n>The Nun's Story</n>, 1958.

<n>The Shadow</n> (1909), a <n>Pre-Raphaelite</n> painting by <n>Edmund Blair Leighton</n>.

A portrait of <n>Chiara Tabaroni</n> in a field.

<n>Anna Karina</n> in <n>Jean-Luc Godard</n>'s <n>Alphaville</n> (1965), reading <n>Paul Éluard</n>'s <n>Capitale de la douleur</n>.

<n>April 2021 Print</n> by artist <n>Carolyn Misterek</n>.