The Luminous Void.

The Luminous Void.

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Joseph Mallord William Turner – Carron Iron Works (c. 1801)

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Zdzislaw Beksinski – Untitled Landscape (c. 1970-90)

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Otto Dix – Crater Field near Dontrien, Lit by Flares (1924)

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William Shackleton – Grass of Parnassus (1925–1933)

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William Daniell — A Sea Serpent Seizing a Horse (c. 1790-1837)

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Georges Jules Victor Clairin — Bust Of Woman In Profile (1899)

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Ferdinand Keller, Lady Absinth, 1901

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Frank Frazetta, At The Earth’s Core, 1972

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Eric Pape, Mermaids and Sea Nymphs, n.d.

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Mirko Rački (Croatian, 1879-1982, b. Novi Marof, Croatia) - The Devil In the Church, 1907, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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Study for “Inferno” Lithograph

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

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John Fabian Carlson (1875 – 1947) 

Shadowy Forest, c. 1930

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The Mothers

Jean Delville

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Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons

Attributed to Henry Fuseli, c. 1816 Oil and oil wash, over graphite and with touches of pen and black ink, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper

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A Witches’ Sabbath, Cornelis Saftleven, 1640, Art Institute of Chicago: European Painting and Sculpture

An old woman riding a goat and brandishing a broomstick dominates this picture, which is an outstanding example of Cornelis Saftleven’s work in a traditional Netherlandish genre: scenes of hellfire and witchcraft. Pioneered by Hieronymous Bosch and given new life by Jan Brueghel and Jacques de Gheyn II a century later, such ghoulish subjects were aimed at an audience of sophisticated collectors. Paintings and drawings in this genre combine precise scientific observation—as here in the moth wings of the howling figure on the right—with a sense of powerful, uncontrolled natural forces. George F. Porter Collection Size: 21 3/8 × 30 ¾ in. (54.3 × 78.2 cm) Medium: Oil on panel

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/53495/

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Jacques de Gheyn II - Design for a wall in a garden grotto - 1620 - © The Trustees of the British Museum