ATREOID

"When Theseus found the Minotaur he was surprised at its beauty. (Theseus then understood that he had always loved the Minotaur.) I came to save you, said Theseus. Now kill me, replied Ariadne"

[retroscifiart]

Art by Paul Lehr for ‘The Nets of Space’ by Emil Petaja, (Berkley Medallion 1969)

[weepingwidar]

Liang Fu (Chinese, 1993) - Reflections of Nothing (2024)

[thunderstruck9]

Liang Fu (Chinese, 1993), Reflections of Nothing, 2024. Pigment, oil on canvas, 120 x 160 cm.

[weepingwidar]

Jamiu Agboke (Nigerian, 1989) - Dark Waters (2023)

[thunderstruck9]

Jamiu Agboke (Nigerian, 1989), Dark Waters, 2023. Oil on canvas, 250.5 x 300.8 cm.

[lamignonette]

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Some quadrupeds from Prosper Alpini's Prosperi Alpini Marosticensis, philosophi, medici, in celeberrimo Lyceo Patavino pharmaciae professoris ordinarii, hortique medici praefecti, Historiæ Ægypti naturalis (1735).

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[nobrashfestivity]

Franz Sedlacek, Twilight Song, 1931, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria.

[similarfruit]

Blue and White Feathered Star Quilt, 1860s

[jareckiworld]

Milan Kunc  -  Universum   (oil and gold leaf on canvas, 2002)

[visual-sandwich]

William James Webbe — The White Owl (1856)

[389]

Magali Cazo Rochers noirs, 2021 Ink on cotton paper 29 9/10 × 22 in | 76 × 56 cm

[aqua-regia009]

Gouache paintings by Bill Mayer (American, b.1951)

https://www.thebillmayer.com/

[rainie-is-seasonchange]

Nature painting.

Monet's pond, Gifu, Japan.

[zegalba]

Ceramics by Johnson Tsang

[vintagewildlife]

A tree full of baby opossums By: Charles Philip Fox From: The Illustrated Library of the Natural Sciences 1958

[clawmarks]

Insectes - Émile-Allain Séguy - 1925 - via Paris bibliothèques

[mona-l1sa]

[70sscifiart]

Blue vs. pink