I, the thousand-petaled flower

[dailyclassicart]

Thomas Cooper Gotch - "The Lantern Parade" (c. 1918)

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815–1910), "Storm at Sea off the Norwegian Coast" (details I), 1837. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.

[metmuseum]

Gauntlet for the Right Hand, Belonging to the Armor of Don Alonzo Pérez de Guzman el Bueno (1550–1619), Count of Niebla and Duke of Medina-Sidonia. ca. 1580. Credit line: Gift of Bernice and Jerome Zwanger, 2002 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/26586

[metmuseum]

Design for a Wall Fountain. 1550–1620. Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/340696

[classicalcanvas]

Snow Effect with Setting Sun (1875) by Claude Monet

[venustapolis]

Venus Abandoned (Arnold Böcklin, 1860)

[ltwilliammowett]

The Kraken, by J. Gibson, 1887

[7pleiades7]

Lost in Dreams (In Träumen versunken), (Detail), (1835), by Friedrich von Amerling (Austrian, 1803 – 1887), oil on canvas, 55 cm (21.6 in) x 45 cm (17.7 in), Gartenpalais Liechtenstein, Vienna

[peaceinthestorm]

Jacques Cancaret (French, 1880-1941, French) ~ Intimacy unveiled, 1930s

[Source: galerieballesteros.fr]

[enchantedbook]

The Oceanian (Sea Nymph)

Gustave Adolphe Mossa (c.1909)

[toiich]

Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[7pleiades7]

Bronze hydria (water jar), Greek 4th century BCE, bronze, H. 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

[7pleiades7]

Calliope, (Detail), (1869), by Joseph Fagnani (Italian, 1819 – 1873), oil on canvas, 43 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. (110.5 x 83.8 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

[7pleiades7]

The Siren, (Detail), (c. 1900), by John William Waterhouse (English, 1849 – 1917), oil on canvas, 81 x 53 cm (31.8 x 20.8 in), Private collection

[7pleiades7]

Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) (Detail), (c. 1597), by Caravaggio, oil on canvas, 135.5 cm × 166.5 cm (53.3 in × 65.6 in), Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome

[enchantedbook]

Die Nornen” (“The Norns”) by Franz Stassen, 1917.

[koenji]

Folio from a Manuscript of the Qur'an. Iran, Shiraz, 1550-1575. Ink, colors and gold on paper.