Constellations from Al Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars, originally published in Arabic in 964 CE
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Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828), A two-fold screen with a crow perched in a persimmon tree, Japan, Edo period, 19th cent
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Persian / Iranian Miniature, 18th century
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'Reciting Poetry in a Garden'. Tile panel, Persia Iran, probably Isfahan. 17th c.
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Gentile Bellini, 'A Seated Scribe', the court of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, ca.1479. Pen, ink, gouache
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Juan Muñoz, sculpture after Bellini
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川 国芳, 1797 – 1861), One of the Daughters of Dragon King Who Lives in the Bottom of the Sea
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Vasily Vereshchagin, Buddhist lama, Pemionchi. Sikkim, 1875
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Francisco de Zurbarán, Allegory of Charity, c. 1655
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John Singer Sargent The Infanta Margarita (after Velázquez). Copied by JSS, 23, at the Museo del Prado, c. 1879
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Diego Velázquez, Infanta Margarita Teresa In A Pink Dress, 1660
Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Celestial Fantasy with Tamara Toumanova), c.1941
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Landscape in the Mist (Τοπίο στην ομίχλη), directed by Theo Angelopoulos (Greece, 1988)
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Adam Fuss (born 1961), My Ghost, 2003 43 x 31.5 in Photogravure
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André Breton. L’oeuf de l’eglise ou le serpent 1932
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Max Ernst, collage from Une semaine de bonté, 1934
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Le Tocsin, 1895
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Jacques Prévert, Hyde Park, London, collage, ca. 1950
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James Ensor. Masks Confronting Death, 1888. Oil on canvas
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Henry Darger, Hands of Fire
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Frank Kelly Freas
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Francis Picabia, Idyll, 1927. Oil and enamel paint on wood in an artist’s frame
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Hannah Höch - Fashion Show (Modenshau), ca. 1925-1935
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Kurt Schwitters, Elikan, collage, 1925
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Max Ernst, Red Forest,1970
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Joseph Cornell, Untitled
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Raymond Pettibon, Untitled (Let brotherly love continue), 198. Ink on paper
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Paul Klee, Uhrpflanzen (Watch Plants), 1924
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'Symbols fill the writer’s dreaming', from 'The hour of magic and other poems' by W.H. Davies, 1922.
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The Noble Game of the Swan', Board Game, published in London by William Darton, 1821
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Maria Sybilla Merian, Lizard, from “Metamorphasibus Insectorum Surinamensium”, 1705.
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Divine Turtle, Zhang Gui, ca. 1156-61
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Three Horses. Possibly from manuscript illustrating capture of Rakhsh by Rustam, described in the Shahnameh. 16th c
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Composite Elephant. Persian Miniature, c 1600
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Romare Bearden, Circe, collage, 1977
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Dosso Dossi, The Sorceress Circe, ca. 1507
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Caravaggio, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, c.1601-1602
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Lorenzo Lotto, Allegory of Virtue and Vice, 1505
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Taddeo Crivelli - Gualenghi-d'Este, Hours Saint Bernardino of Siena Italian, Ferrara, ca 1469.
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The effect of Bad Government on the City, from Ambrogio Lorenzetti's fresco, Sala Dei Nove, Siena, 1338 -1339
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