Jean-Léon Gérôme, Truth Rising from her Well, 1896

Luis Ricardo Falero, Witches going to their Sabbath, 1878

Vasily Vereshchagin, The Apotheosis of War, 1871

Hovsep Pushman, Narcissa

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Billow, 1889

Rory Kurtz, Rocky Passages, Broken Promises, 2011

Thomas Moran, Moonlit Seascape, 1902

Odilon Redon, Mystical Conversation, 1896

Eric White, No Neutral Thoughts, 2008

William Turner, Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, 1842

Max Ernst, The Dark Gods, 1957

"The Lewis chessmen are a group of 12th-century chess pieces most of which are carved in walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, they may constitute some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets." ~ Wikipedia

The Lewis Chessmen

Dora Maar, Femme Nu #55, 1935

Egon Schiele, Standing Woman in Red, 1913

Rachel's, Family Portrait from the album Music for Egon Schiele

Edvard Munch, Two People. The Lonely Ones, 1899

Ivan Aivazovsky, A Strong Wind, 1856

Born this day.

Edgar Degas, La Coiffure, 1896

Born this day

Gustav Klimt, Detail from the Beethoven Frieze, 1902

Leena McCall, Portrait of Ms Ruby May, Standing

Detail from Glycon of Athens' marble copy of Lysippos' lost bronze original, Farnese Hercules, ~ 216 AD