AMOR VINCIT OMNIA

James Jebusa Shannon (American, 1862-1923) - The Sevres Vase

Henry William Pickersgill (English, 1782-1875)

A Syrian Maid

‘Butterflies’ by William Baxter Closson, c. 1887.

Orpheus and Eurydice, Anselm Feuerbach, 1869

A skull: three views. Pencil drawing by Heinrich Appenzeller, 1558.

Wellcome Collection

Pandora (Detail), 1902 - oil on canvas. — Charles-Amable Lenoir (French, 1860-1926)

Viking sword, Hedeby, Denmark, 10th century

The remains of the "Red Queen" found in the Mayan city of Palenque in Mexico, dated 600 - 600 A.D.. She was covered with bright red cinnabar powder.

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An elderly man taunted by a skeleton, as he sits and ponders in a vanitas conceit. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.

A sick old woman, sitting supported by pillows as a skeleton pounces aiming his spear at her eyes. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580

Stimmer, Tobias, 1539-1584

Wellcome Collection

‘Anna du Pire as Granida’ (detail) by Bartholomeus van der Helst, c. 1660.

Orpheus by John Macallan Swan (1896)

[detail] Thomas Gainsboroug

The Love of Souls, Jean Delville, 1900

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

Nymph by Arnold Böcklin (1875)

The Day Dying in the Arms of Night by Léon Printemps, 1900

Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun // Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still

John Henry Harvey - Moon, satellite of earth, 1900