Painting

Detail of <n>Jupiter and Semele</n> (1894-95) by <n>Symbolist</n> artist <n>Gustave Moreau</n>.

1896 painting <n>Sagrado Coração de Jesus Redentor</n> by Portuguese artist <n>António Carneiro</n>.

<n>Historiated initial 'S'</n> from a <n>Psalter</n> (c. 1400-1410) illustrating <n>Psalm 69</n>, held by the <n>British Library</n>.

A detail from <n>Sandro Botticelli</n>'s painting, <n>The Birth of Venus</n>, c. 1486.

<n>Diana and Actaeon</n> by <n>Henryk Siemiradzki</n>, 1886.

A detail of <n>Flora</n> from <n>Sandro Botticelli</n>'s painting <n>The Birth of Venus</n>, c. 1486.

An illuminated manuscript of <n>Saint Dominic</n> by artist <n>Taddeo Crivelli</n>.

<n>Holy equal to the apostles Princess Olga</n> (1892-1893) by artist <n>Mikhail Nesterov</n>.

A digital illustration of the <n>Archangel Michael</n>.

Tapestry <n>Hercules supporting the celestial sphere</n>, c. 1520-1530. Designed by <n>Bernaert van Orley</n>.

A detail from <n>Francesco Traini</n>'s painting <n>Il Trionfo della Morte</n> (c. 1325-1350).

<n>Anatomical Man</n>, a folio from the <n>Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry</n> by the <n>Limbourg brothers</n>, c. 1412-1416.

<n>The Birth of the Sun and the Triumph of Bacchus</n> (c. 1762) by Italian artist <n>Corrado Giaquinto</n>.

Frontispiece for <n>Athanasius Kircher</n>'s <n>Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae</n> (1646), engraved by <n>Petrus Miotte</n>.

<n>The Vision of Hermes Trismegistus</n> (1975) by artist <n>Johfra Bosschart</n>.

<n>The Northern Stellar Hemisphere of Antiquity</n>, a 1708 hand-colored engraving by <n>Andreas Cellarius</n>.

A <n>Golden-hooded Tanager</n> and <n>Masked Tanager</n> from <n>Iconographie ornithologique</n> (1849) by <n>Paul Louis Oudart</n>.

A panel from the scenic wallpaper <n>Paysage de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso</n>, designed by <n>Xavier Mader</n> for <n>Joseph Dufour et Cie</n>.

<n>Cupid's Target</n> (1758), a <n>Rococo</n> painting by <n>François Boucher</n>.

A detail from <n>Pieter Fris</n>'s 1652 painting, <n>Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld</n>.

Folio from the <n>Ejecutoria de Hidalguía de Francisco de Palacios</n>, an illuminated manuscript depicting <n>Santiago</n>.

<n>Tree of Life and Death</n> by <n>Berthold Furtmeyr</n>, an illumination from the <n>Salzburger Missal</n>, c. 1455-1494.

Detail of the <n>Celestial Map</n> fresco (1574) by <n>Giovanni Antonio da Varese</n> in the <n>Villa Farnese</n>.

An 18th-century alchemical illustration from the German manuscript <n>Sammlung Alchymistischer Schriften</n>.

<n>The World of Yr and the Twelve Moons</n> by artist <n>Francesca Baerald</n>.

<n>Saint Sebastian</n> (c. 1500-1510) by the <n>Master of the Greenville Tondo</n>.

<n>Apollo and Dionysus</n> by <n>Leonid Ilyukhin</n>.

<n>Lucretia</n> (1664) by <n>Rembrandt van Rijn</n>.

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

<n>Serpens Seductor</n>, a 1731 engraving by <n>G.D. Houman</n> from <n>Johann Jakob Scheuchzer</n>'s "<n>Physica Sacra</n>."

An illuminated manuscript page from <n>The Black Hours</n>.

<n>Our Time is Fix'd, and all our days are Number'd</n> (c. 1805) by <n>William Blake</n> for <n>Robert Blair</n>'s poem <n>The Grave</n>.

A celestial map, <n>Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti pars V</n>, by <n>Ignace-Gaston Pardies</n>, 1693.