I WANT TO BELIEVE

[oldpaintings]

The Daughters of Danaus, c.1900 by Fernand Sabatté (French, 1874–1940)

[fuzzbby]

Jiajun Ke.

[fuzzbby]

Ann Carrington.

[typhlonectes]

Cardón, José María Velasco (1887).

Oil on canvas.

[1five1two]

'Red Berries'. Albert Joseph Moore.1883-1884. Detail.

[classical-gentry]

This is a portrait of Antonio “Nino” Cesarini (1889-1943), lover of Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen.

[garethschweitzer]

Turkish wrestler with leopard, drawing by Jacopo Ligozzi (1547-1627)

[kundst]

Piero Della Francesca (It. 1412-1492)

The Dream of Constantine

Part of fresco series in Bacci cappella in the San Francesco in Arezzo painted ca 1460.

[boobookittenartblog]

Pear Cactus in Bloom, Herman Saftleven, 1683

[mysterium-solis]

Proposal for the Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Monument to the Battle of the Nations) by Otto Rieth (1897)

[ancientrome]

Erotic fresco at the House of the Vettii in Pompeii.

[daily-art-academy]

Fall of the Giants

Giulio Romano, 1532-34

Fresco, Palazzo del Te, Mantua, Italy

[bronzeageecho]

dancers | c. 20 - 45 CE | pompeii, so-called villa of cicero

in the museo archeologico nazionale di napoli collection

[illustratus]

Consul Manlius Torquatus Condemns his Son to Death by Jean-Simon Berthélemy

[filmaticbby]

Caravaggio (1986) dir. Derek Jarman

[enchantedbook]

Late 18th Century tinted engraving of the Masonic temple pillars with crest, etc, commissioned by B.R. Newman and painted in 1798 by J. Biggen.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Woman from Haiphong, northern Vietnam

French vintage postcard