— Marvin Bell, from “Here”

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

The Earth with the Milky Way and Moon, 1918 by Władysław Theodor Benda (Polish, 1873–1948)

The Lady of Shalott, details, left + right

Robert-Jacques Lefèvre | Portrait of a Woman Holding a Pencil and a Drawing Book (detail) | c. 1808

A Reclining Female Figure by Edward Burne-Jones

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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The Kelpie by Herbert James Draper

’The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde (published in 1890)

Francesco Hayez - Meditation, 1850

A  study of two hands - French School - c.1800 - via Sotheby’s

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens.

Photo by Felix Odell

Leon-Francois Comerre (1850-1916), “Luna" 

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The Lament for Icarus, detail 1898 Oil on canvas, 182.9 x 155.6 cm Tate Britain Ed. Orig.