<n>Bilt</n> jewelry photographed by <n>Robert Myrsater</n> for <n>Self Service</n> magazine. Styling by <n>Elodie David</n>.

<n>The Forgetting of Passions</n>, a 1913 <n>Symbolist</n> painting by <n>Jean Delville</n>.

Illustration by <n>Gustave Doré</n> for <n>Samuel Taylor Coleridge</n>'s poem <n>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</n>.

<n>The Zacharia's Vision</n>, an engraving by <n>Gustave Doré</n>.

A still from the 1974 experimental film <n>La nuit du phoque</n> by <n>Jean-Jacques Birgé</n> and <n>Bernard Mollerat</n>.

<n>Procession of the Elders</n>, an illustration for <n>Dante Alighieri</n>'s <n>Purgatorio</n> by <n>Gustave Doré</n>.

Photo by <n>Kate Bellm</n> for <n>Monster Children</n> magazine.

<n>Gustave Doré</n>'s illustration of <n>Beatrice</n> and <n>Virgil</n> for <n>Dante Alighieri</n>'s <n>The Divine Comedy</n>.

<n>The Annunciation</n> (c. 1894) by artist <n>Frederic James Shields</n>.

<n>Uma Thurman</n> as <n>Venus</n> in <n>Terry Gilliam</n>'s 1988 film <n>The Adventures of Baron Munchausen</n>.

Photo by <n>HOMER HELIOS</n> of a surfer at <n>Santa Teresa Beach</n>.

Food and table styling by <n>Kirthanaa Naidu</n>.

A collection of illustrations titled <n>Wave Mechanics</n> by artist <n>Walter Russell</n>.

<n>Moonlight coast</n> (1901), a <n>Luminist</n> painting by <n>Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé</n>.

A film still from <n>Fedora</n> (1978), directed by <n>Billy Wilder</n>.

Model <n>Laetitia Casta</n> photographed by <n>Paolo Roversi</n> in 1999.

<n>Mercy's Dream</n> (1858), an oil on canvas painting by <n>Daniel Huntington</n>.

<n>Pietro Saja</n>'s <n>Neoclassical</n> painting, <n>Vestal Virgin Condemned to Death</n> (1801).

<n>An Angel Appears to Balaam (detail)</n>, an 1880 engraving by <n>Gustave Doré</n>.

<n>Draped Female Figure on a Wind-Swept Sea-Shore</n> by <n>Marianne H.W. Robilliard</n>.

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Album art for <n>While Atlantis Gently Fades</n> by <n>Disfigrium</n>.