painting of the day – Caves of Altamira

Painting of the Day: Mount Vesuvius in Eruption

Mount Vesuvius in Eruption by J.M.W. Turner, 1817

Madonna of the Dry Tree by Petrus Christus, c. 1462–1465

Paul Verlaine, Bibi-la-Purée et Stéphane Mallarmé at the Café Procope by Serafino Macchiati, 1890

The Fall of the Damned by Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1620

saintjohnhead

The Head of Saint John the Baptist by Francesco Cairo, c. 1635

Found Drowned by George Friedrich Watts, c. 1850

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After the Gala by Serafino Macchiati, 1905

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Undine Comes into the House of the Fisherman by John Henry Fuseli, 1821

The Aegean Sea by Frederic Edwin Church, ca. 1877