Pale Farewells
Death rendered in white — shrouds, pale light and quiet, ghostly goodbyes.
Melencolia I
Albrecht Dürer · 1514
Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza
Antonio del Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s
The Judgment of Paris; he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above; in the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback; at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another Goddess
Marcantonio Raimondi · Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1510–20
Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons
Martin Schongauer · 1470–74
Seated Woman with a Spider's Web (Die Frau mit dem Spinnennnetz zwischen kahlen Baumen)
Christian Friedrich · Caspar David Friedrich · probably 1803
58% in your colours
Woman with a Raven (Die Frau mit dem Raben am Abgrund)
Christian Friedrich · Caspar David Friedrich · probably 1803
55% in your colours
Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
Albrecht Dürer · n.d.
The Turkish Family
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1496
Battle of the Sea-Gods (right portion of frieze)
Andrea Mantegna · ca. 1485–88
The Entrance Hall of the Regensburg Synagogue
Albrecht Altdorfer · 1519
The Sudarium Displayed by an Angel
Albrecht Dürer · 1516
Time Smoking a Picture
William Hogarth · ca. 1761
The Burial of Punchinello
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1800
The Betrothal of the Virgin
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1770
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Albrecht Dürer · 1526
The Entombment
Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1656–57
Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses
Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi · Ugo da Carpi · ca. 1520–27
Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses'
Rembrandt · 1653-c.1660
Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · 1645–50
Untitled
Utagawa Toyokuni III · ca. 1824
The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris
Napoléon Bonaparte · Thomas Rowlandson · Rudolph Ackermann, London · April 16, 1815
Nap and His Friends in their Glory
Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · October 1, 1813
The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris
Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · April 16, 1815
Infant Shakespeare Attended by Nature and the Passions
William Shakespeare · George Romney · John & Josiah Boydell · Benjamin Smith · 1799
The Entombment
Rembrandt · ca. 1654
The Whore of Babylon, from "The Apocalypse"
Albrecht Dürer · 1498
Macbeth Consulting the Witches
Eugène Delacroix · William Shakespeare · 1825
Plate 21 from "Los Caprichos": How they pluck her! (¡Qual la descañonan!)
Francisco Goya · 1799
67% in your colours
Plate 40 from "Los Caprichos": Of what ill will he die? (De que mal morira?)
Francisco Goya · 1799
60% in your colours
Plate 19 from "Los Caprichos": All will fall (Todos Caerán)
Francisco Goya · 1799
72% in your colours
Plate 20 from "Los Caprichos": There they go plucked (i.e. fleeced) (Ya van desplumados)
Francisco Goya · 1799
54% in your colours
Plate 68 from "Los Caprichos": Pretty teacher! (Linda maestra!)
Francisco Goya · 1799
63% in your colours
Garroted Man
Francisco Goya · ca. 1775–78
64% in your colours
Plate 15 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'And there is no help' (Y no hai remedio)
Francisco Goya · 1810
81% in your colours
Hamlet Tries To Follow His Father's Ghost
Eugène Delacroix · William Shakespeare · Villain · 1835
Plate 43 from "Los Caprichos": The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos)
Francisco Goya · 1799
72% in your colours
Plate 26 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'One can't look' (No se puede mirar)
Francisco Goya · 1810 (published 1863)
77% in your colours
Plate 12 from "Los Caprichos": Out hunting for teeth (A caza de dientes)
Francisco Goya · 1799
70% in your colours
Nap and His Friends in their Glory
Joseph Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · Napoléon Bonaparte · October 1, 1808
Untitled
Okumura Masanobu · 18th century
Caricature of a Man Pointing
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1610–80
Flying Figure Holding a Crown, Reclining River God
Jacques-Louis David · n.d.
85% in your colours
Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7)
Sir John Everett Millais · James Stephenson · Henry Graves & Company · William Shakespeare · The Printsellers' Association, London · March 1, 1866
The Ass at School
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Pieter van der Heyden · Hieronymus Cock · 1557
Salomé Dancing Before the Head of St. John the Baptist
Gustave Moreau · mid to late 19th century
The Witnesses - The War Council
Honoré Daumier · 1872
児戯意乃三笑 恵恩芳子 · Mother and Child
Kitagawa Utamaro · ca. 1800
The Land of Cockaigne
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Pieter van der Heyden · after 1570?
Genie de la Poësie
Madame de Pompadour · 18th century
The Annunciation
Filippo Lippi
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