The Purge by István Sándorfi (Etienne Sandorfi), 1982.

Die Seelen des Acheron (The Souls of Acheron) by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, 1898. 

玫瑰和小鸟 (Roses and Small Bird) by Itō Jakuchū, part of the series Dōshoku sai-e (動植綵絵) c. 1761-1765.

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Portrait of a lady (Detail), presumed to be Vere Egerton, granddaughter Lord Chancellor Thomas Egerton, who married into the Booth family of Dunham Massey in Cheshire in 1619. Attributed to Robert Peake the Elder (c. 1551-1619). ©Sotheby’s 

The White Woman by Gabriel von Max, 1900. 

 The Sabbath of Witches (Le Sabbat des Sorcières) by Francisco Goya, from 1797-1798,  Lazaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid. 

This is one of eight paintings commissioned by the Duchess of Osuna for her country house at Alameda. The subject, similar to that of etching No. 60 of Los Caprichos, enabled Goya to combine his flair for fantasy with savage attacks on the Church’s abuses and exploitation of superstitions and fears, which were deeply rooted in the popular imagination.

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Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent, 1885-1886. 

Conceived under the most unusual of circumstances, and nurtured in a remarkable setting at Broadway, this painting is overwhelmingly held out by the public — then as well as today — to be the most favored painting of all his work. It is universally believed to be one of his masterpieces. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, the title lifted from the light-hearted lyrics of a popular song, is a triumph of John’s use of light which would never be equaled in quite the same way.

Dionysos with kantharos and Maenad, 1st century AD, Vesuvian Region Herculaneum, Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.

Oh What’s That in the Hollow by Edward R. Hughes, 1893.

“Oh, what’s that in the hollow, so pale, I quake to follow?’ ‘Oh, that’s a thin dead body, which waits the eternal term.”

Peonies and Butterflies (牡丹と蝶) by Itō Jakuchū, part of the series Dōshoku sai-e (動植綵絵) c. 1757.