Art
Paintings I keep coming back to.
Myth and enchantment
Ulysses and the SirensJohn William Waterhouse, 1891
Circe Offering the Cup to UlyssesJohn William Waterhouse, 1891
Circe InvidiosaJohn William Waterhouse, 1892
Odysseus and PolyphemusArnold Böcklin, 1896
The Magic CircleJohn William Waterhouse, 1886
Echo and NarcissusJohn William Waterhouse, 1903
The Murder of Pelias by His DaughtersGeorges Moreau de Tours, 1878
ClytemnestraJohn Collier, 1882
Lady LilithDante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866–1868
The Garden of ArmidaJohn Collier, c. 1899
Faun by MoonlightLéon Spilliaert, c. 1900
Lady GodivaJohn Collier, 1898
The Ballad of LenoreHorace Vernet, 1839
The Passing of Robin HoodN. C. Wyeth, 1917
Angels, devils and the fall
Scripture
The Last SupperLeonardo da Vinci, c. 1495–1498
The Sacrifice of IsaacCaravaggio, c. 1603
Samson and DelilahPeter Paul Rubens, c. 1609–1610
The Return of the Prodigal SonBartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1667–1670
Belshazzar's FeastJohn Martin, 1821
Daniel's Answer to the KingBriton Rivière, 1890
Job and His FriendsIlya Repin, 1869
The First MourningWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1888
After the FloodFilippo Palizzi, 1864
History and power
Napoleon Crossing the AlpsJacques-Louis David, 1801
Napoleon and JosephineHarold Hume Piffard
The Murder of the Sons of Edward IVTheodor Hildebrandt, 1835
Ivan the Terrible and His Son IvanIlya Repin, 1885
Alexander the Great's Trust in Doctor PhilipHenryk Siemiradzki, 1870
The Women of AmphissaLawrence Alma-Tadema, 1887
Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the GreatElisabetta Sirani, 1659
The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, 1818–1819
The Burial of AtalaAnne-Louis Girodet, 1808
Las MeninasDiego Velázquez, 1656
Portrait of Juan de ParejaDiego Velázquez, 1650
The Arnolfini PortraitJan van Eyck, 1434
Love, war and parting
The Black BrunswickerJohn Everett Millais, 1860
To Arms!Edmund Blair Leighton, 1888
God SpeedEdmund Blair Leighton, 1900
The ShadowEdmund Blair Leighton, 1909
The Gladiator's WifeEdmund Blair Leighton, 1884
A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the FordJohn Everett Millais, 1857
The Crown of LoveJohn Everett Millais, 1875
Between Wealth and LoveWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1869
The Awakening ConscienceWilliam Holman Hunt, 1853
Death and the reckoning
Fools, tricksters and ordinary lives
Laughing FoolJacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, c. 1500
The ConjurerHieronymus Bosch, c. 1502
The Irritating GentlemanBerthold Woltze, 1874
My Wife's LoversCarl Kahler, 1891
In a Roman OsteriaCarl Bloch, 1866
A Dear VisitorMax Kurzweil, 1894
At the School DoorNikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, 1897
The AcrobatsGustave Doré, 1874
At the Dressing Table. Self-PortraitZinaida Serebriakova, 1909
Girl with a Pearl EarringJohannes Vermeer, c. 1665
Allegorical Painting of Two LadiesEnglish School, c. 1650











