The victor is whoever defends the fatherland. God crushes the wrath of an enormous foe. Behold! A boy overcame a great tyrant. Conquer, o citizens!

• David Victorious Over Goliath/David With the Head of Goliath, Caravaggio
  • 1599
  • 1607
  • 1609 - 1610
• Davide e Golia, Tanzio da Varallo, 1625
• David Triumphant, Thomas Crawford, 1845 - 48
• SCULPTURE
  • Donatello, 1409
  • Donatello, 1440s
  • Verrochio, 1470s
  • Michelangelo, 1501 - 04
  • Bernini, 1623

• by Gustav Klimt, 1901
• by Donatello, 1460
• by Gentileschi, 1612 - 13
• by Jacopo de Barbari, ?

• LIBERTY
  • Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix, 1830
  • Liberty Enlightening the World, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, 1875 - 84
• VICTORY (NIKE)
  • Nike of Samothrace, 3rd century BCE
• JUSTICE
  • Allegory: The Triumph of Justice, Hans von Aachen, 1598
  • Justice, Luca Giordano
• LOVE
  • The Battle of Love and Chastity, Pietro Perugiono, ?
  • Sacred and Profane Love, Titian, 1514
• COUNTRIES
  • Germania and Italia, Franz Overbeck, 1811
• SLEEP (HYPNOS) AND DEATH (THANATOS)
  • Sleep and His Half-Brother, Death, John William Waterhouse, 1874

• The Awakening of Psyche. Guillaume Seignac, ?
• Proteus, Jörg Breu from the Book of Emblems by Andrea Alciato, 1531
• The Water Nymph, Herbert James Draper, ?
• Flaying of Marsyas, Titian, 1570s
• Pornocrates, Felicien Rops, 1896
• Sacred Wood Cherished by the Arts and Mu..., Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1884 - 9
• Nymph and Satyr, Bouguereau, 1873
• Hecate or the Three Fates, William Blake, 1795
• The Battle of the Lapiths and the Centau..., Michelangelo, 1492
• The Greek Slave, Hiram Powers, 1843
• The Chimera of Arezzo, 400 BCE
• Capitoline Wolf, ?
• The Three Graces, Raphael, 1501 - 05
• Orestes & the Erinyes, Gustave Moreau, ?
• Primavera, Botticelli, 1482
• THE PLEIADES
  • The Pleiades, Elihu Vedder, 1885
  • L'Etoile Perdue, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1884
• THE MUSES

• THESEUS
  • Theseus and the Minotaur, Canova, 1781
• PERSEUS
  • Head of Medusa, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 18
  • Medusa,Arnold Böcklin, circa 1878
  • Rondanini Medusa, Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original by Phidias, which was set on the shield of Athena Parthenos.
  • The Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor from t..., Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1876-85
  • Perseus Turning Phineas and His Follower..., Luca Giordano, early 1680s
  • Perseus, Canova, 1804 - 06
  • Perseus and the Head of Medusa, Cellini,
• THE ODYSSEY
  • Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus, John William Waterhouse, 1891
  • Odysseus and Nausicaa, Pieter Lastman, 1619
  • Cyclops, Odilon Redon, 1914
  • Ulysses Escaping from Polyphemus The Cyc..., Fuseli, ?
• HERAKLES

• "For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" (Rev. 6:17)
  • Great Day of His Wrath, Martin, 1852
• So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. (Rev 6:8)
  • Death on a Pale Horse, Benjamin West, ?
  • Death on a Pale Horse, J.M.W. Turner, 1825 – 30
• They came up over the surface of the earth and surrounded the encampment of the saints, the beloved city. Then fire came down from heaven and consumed them. (Rev 20: 7 - 9
  • Vision from Book of Revelation, Rev. McKendree Robbins Long, Sr, 1966
• The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon... (Rev 16: 19

• 19th century engraving of the Denderah Zodiac from the Temple of Hathor, approx 50 BCE
• Palette of Narmer, 31st century BCE
• Book of the Dead
  • Weighing of the Heart from the Papyrus of Hunefer
  • Weighing of the Heart from the Papyrus of Ani, ca. 1200 BCE
• Pyramid Complex at Giza of Khufu/Cheops, Khafre/Kephren and Menkaure/Mykerinus
  • Sphinx of Khafre
• Menkaure and his Consort, 2548-2530 BCE
• Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, Imhotep, 2667–2648 BCE

• Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942
• Saturday Night, Archibald Motley Jr, 1935
• Chrysler Building, William Van Alen, 1928 - 30
• Empire State Building, Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, 1931
• Shopper, Kenneth Hayes Miller, 1928
• American Gothic, Grant Wood, 1930
• Tornado Over Kansas, John Steuart Curry, 1930
• America Today: The South, Thomas Hart Benton, 1930 – 31
• Making of a Fresco Showing the Building ..., Diego Rivera, 1931
• Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1936

• A Soul Bought to Heaven, William Bouguereau, 1878
• The Angels of the Sistine Madonna, Rafael, 1513 - 14
• The Wounded Angel, Hugo Simberg, 1903
• St. Michael, Raphael, circa 1505
  • St. Michael Vanquishing Satan, Raphael, 1518
• In Truth There is Love, Elvira Amrhein, ?
• Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel, 1868

• Rural Courtship, Daniel Ridgeway Knight, 1897
• Young Knitter Asleep, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ?
• Virginia Woolfe, Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), 1912
• Old Woman with a Ball of Yarn, Marc Chagall, c. 1906, gouache, charcoal on cardboard. 67.5 x 50. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

• Paris and Helen, David, 1786
• Aeneas and Anchises, Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1618 - 19
• Achilles Tries in Vain to Seize Hold of ..., Fuseli, ?
• Achilles Searching for the Shade of Patr..., ?
• Zeuxis Selecting Models for his Painting..., Angelica Kauffman, 1778
• Laocöon and His Sons, Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus, 160 - 20 BCE
  • Laocoön, El Greco, 1946
  • Shallow bowl on low foot with the death ..., attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli, Urbino, possibly with assistants; lustered in the workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli of Gubbio, or possibly in Urbino, 1539
• Andromache Mourning Hector, Jacques-Louis David, 1780

• ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
• ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
• AS YOU LIKE IT
• COMEDY OF ERRORS
• CORIOLANUS
• CYMBELINE
• EDWARD III
• HAMLET
  • Ophelia, Alexandre Cabanel, 1883
  • Death of Ophelia, Millais, 1851-2
  • Ophelia, Joseph Severn, 1831
  • Ophelia, Arthur Hughes, 1852 (exhibited in the same Salon as Millais')
    • Ophelia of 1874
  • Ophelia, George Frederick Watts, 1864
  • John William Waterhouse's Ophelias
    • of 1889
    • of 1894

• Ecce Homo, 1605
• Judith and Holofernes, 1599
• Medusa, 1596 & 1597
• Bacchus, 1595
• The Sick Bacchus, 1593 - 94
• The Musicians, 1595 - 96

• It is well to remember that a picture - before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote - is essentially a plain surface covered with colors in a certain order. (Maurice Denis)
• To go backward is to do nothing, to waste effort, to have neither understood nor profited from the lessons of the past. (Gustave Courbet)
• ...while photographs may not lie, liars may photograph. (Lewis Hine)
• A line is a dot that went for a walk. (Paul Klee)
• Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. (van Gogh)
• Clearly there isn't enough art in our schools when kids think Man Ray is a poisonous jellyfish. (Americans for the Arts advertisement)
• My drawings inspire , and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm ...

• MY ROOM
  • Untitled: female figure with a head of f..., Salvador Dali, 1937
  • Starry, Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
  • The Great Wave of Kanagawa, Hokusai, 1826 - 33, printed later
  • Cycles Gladiator, INFORMATION
  • Butterflies, Andy Warhol, 1955
  • the idea of waiting for something makes ..., Warhol, 1963
• MOM'S ROOM
  • Le Negresse, Matisse, 1952
• COMPUTER ROOM
  • La condition humaine, Magritte, 1933
  • Vase of Flowers, Jan Davidsz de Heem, c. 1660
  • Three Men of War Before a Water Fortress..., Peter Bruegel, 1565
• LIVING ROOM

• The Broken Column, Frida Kahlo, 1944
• Le Violon d'Ingres, Man Ray, 1924
• Krass und Mild, Wassily Kandinsky, 1932
• Cats and Watermelons, Gabriel Orozco, 1992
• Plate of Apples, Paul Cezanne, 1877
• Starry, Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
• Brittany Pardon, Dagnon-Bouveret, 1886
• La mort du fossoyeur,Carlos Schwabe , ?
• Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo da Vinci, 1474 (?), back 1478/80
  • luckily this is at the National Gallery!
• Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas, Otto Dix, 1924

• HINDU MYTHOLOGY
  • Krishna, Jamini Roy, 1956
• IRISH MYTHOLOGY
  • Ossian Summoning the Spirits, Gérard, 1802
• NIBELUNGENLIED
  • Kriemhild Throws Herself on Siegfried's ..., Fuseli, ?
  • Kriemhild Dreams of the Dead Siegfried, Fuseli, ?
• FAIRY PAINTINGS
  • The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, Richard Dadd, 1855 - 64
  • Rübezahl, Moritz von Schwind, 1851
  • Come Unto These Yellow Sands, Richard Dadd, 1842
• ARTHURIAN LEGENDS
  • Mercy: Sir Gawain Swearing to be Mercifu..., William Dyce, 1854
  • Morgan Le Fay, Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, 1864
• NORSE MYTHOLOGY

• ZEUS/JUPITER
  • Jupiter and Io, Antonio da Correggio, c. 1530
  • Jupiter and Europa, Gustave Moreau
  • Jupiter and Semele, Moreau, 1890 - 95
  • Prometheus Attacked by Zeus' Eagle, attributed to the Arkesilas Painter, 555 BCE
  • Ganymede
• HERA/JUNO
• POSEIDON/NEPTUNE
  • Neptune and Triton, Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1620
• DEMETER/CERES
• ARES/MARS
• HERMES/MERCURY
  • Flying Mercury, Giovanni da Bologna, 1580
    • head detail of Flying Mercury
• HEPHAESTUS/VULCAN
• CUPID/EROS