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The Death of Breuse sans Pitié (detail; 1857; retouched 1865), Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The triumphal car of the Emperor with his family (detail), from Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian I (c. 1512–15), Albrecht Altdorfer. Albertina Museum, Vienna
Installation view of Monster Chetwynd’s Hybrid Creatures (Snake, Spider, Bat, Crocodile) at the Istanbul Biennial, 2019.
Boy Blowing on Firebrand (detail; c. 1660), Georges de la Tour.
The Skissernas Museum in Lund, Sweden.
Young Hare (detail; 1502), Albrecht Dürer. Image: © The Albertina Museum, Vienna
Napoleon at Fontainebleau, 31 March 1814 (1840), Paul Delaroche.
Jean Dubuffet in front of a sculpture by Émile Ratier at the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, in February 1976. Photo: Jean-Jacques Laesar; Archives de la Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne
Amber casket in the shape of a three-story monument containing ivory figures, (c. 1660). Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. Photo: Waddesdon Image Library/Mike Fear
Portrait of Pietro Aretino (detail), (1527), here attributed to Titian. Kunstmuseum Basel
Group of quadrants in ‘Science City 1550–1800’ at the Science Museum, London. Photo: © Jody Kingzett, Science Museum Group
Jane Seymour (detail; c. 1537), after Hans Holbein the Younger.
The Dark Rigi, The Lake of Lucerne (1842), J.M.W. Turner.
Adolf Fischer at the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, c. 1913.
Moby Dick Transcendent (1930), Rockwell Kent, illustration for the Lakeside Press edition of Moby-Dick.
The Gruuthusemuseum in Bruges (pre-2014).
Photograph of Baltimore waterfront in c. 1910/15.
Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890 (1890), Paul Signac. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
untitled (to you, Heiner, with admiration and affection) (1973), Dan Flavin. Installation view of ‘Königsklasse’, Herrenchiemsee Palace, Munich, 2019.
The Menil Drawing Institute at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, designed by Johnston Marklee