Paintings That Last

A detail from the 1794 painting <n>Portrait of Catherine Gray, Lady Manners</n> by <n>Thomas Lawrence</n>.

“the vital unity of relationship,” an illustration by artist <n>Refael Idan Suissa</n>.

<n>Arthur Rackham</n>'s 1921 illustration of <n>Daphne</n> for <n>John Milton</n>'s masque, <n>Comus</n>.

<n>The Astral Man</n> (1903) by artist <n>Sascha Schneider</n>.

A detail from the painting <n>Water Lilies</n> by Austrian artist <n>Hans Zatzka</n> (1859-1945).

<n>Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie)</n> (1902) by artist <n>Edward Robert Hughes</n>.

<n>Camillo Miola</n>'s 1880 painting, <n>The Oracle at Delphi</n>, depicts the <n>Pythia</n> in a prophetic trance.

<n>View of an Ancient City</n> (1866), a <n>Romanticism</n> painting by artist <n>Hermann Burghart</n>.

<n>Morpheus Awakening as Iris Draws Near</n> (1690) by <n>René-Antoine Houasse</n>.