The Dark Side of the Moon

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This is what I am talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus. - Ranpo Edogawa

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Caspar David Friedrich - Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes [Two Men Contemplating the Moon], 1819-1820.

Oil on canvas, 35 x 44.5 cm

Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden.

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, known as Moonlight Sonata composed in 1801.

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Mapa Księżyca z "Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio" [Selenografia: lub Opisanie Księżyca] autorstwa Jana Heweliusza (1611-1687) słynnej pracy dotyczącej geografii Księżyca wydanej w 1647 roku.

Map of the Moon from "Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio" [Selenography, or A Description of The Moon] by Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) his famous work about geography of the Moon printed in 1647.

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"Wiersz księżycowy" Bolesława Leśmiana (1877-1937) w wykonaniu Nataszy Czarmińskiej (1950-2004).

The poem "Wiersz księżycowy" [Moon Poem] by Polish poet Bolesław Leśmian (1877-1937) performed by Polish singer of sung poetry and poet Natasza Czarmińska (1950-2004).

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Le Voyage dans la Lune [A Trip to the Moon], dir. Georges Méliès, France, 1902.

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Rosalba Carriera - Diana con una túnica rosa [Diana in a pink robe], 1725.

Pastel on paper, 40 x 32 cm

Missing in 1945 from Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.

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Edwin Howland Blashfield - Spring Scattering Stars, (1927)

Oil on canvas, 130 cm × 110 cm

Private collection.

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Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

Published: October 5, 2017

Four hemispheric views of the Moon constructed from images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Upper left: nearside (0°N, 0°E); Upper right: eastern hemisphere (0°N, 90°E); Lower left: farside (0°N, 180°E); Lower right: western hemisphere (0°N, 270°E).

Source: https://moon.nasa.gov/