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Drawings
- 1 Million B.C. (Cavemen, Dinosaur and Volcano by Gerry Wood)
- 2 + Torture = 5 (Room 101 by Joe Baker)
- The '80s (The '80s Strike Back by Ryan Dunlavey
)
- Anatomy Tropes (Vitruvian Man by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci)
- Anime ("Anime" Japanese Animation by Adam Lee Rose
)
- Arcology (Complex in the Center of universe by Staszek Marek)
- Artistic License History (left half: Xerxes I of Persia)
- Astrologer (Habit d'Astrologue by Nicolas de Larmessin)
- Bakeneko and Nekomata
- Baphomet (Sabbatic Goat by Eliphas Levi)
- Barefoot Poverty (Boy Sitting [Barefoot and Hatless] by John Sell Cotman)
- The Bartender (by Valerian Ruppert)
- Bath Suicide (from the Chronicles of Nuremberg, Death of Seneca by Hartmann Schedel)
- Bindle Stick (Hobo Costume Essentials, Halloween 2007 by Ape Lad)
- Bird People (by Kelly Aleshire)
- Black Sheep (Black Sheep of the Family by Katie)
- Blood Brothers (Bloody Handshake by Wojtek Kozak)
- Bomb-Throwing Anarchists (top-right: Anarchist by Vladimir Taburin; bottom-left: political cartoon by Mike Flugennock)
- Books That Bite (Libellus Maleficus by Hawanja)
- Busman's Holiday (A Little Summer Dream by Gert Haderer)
- Captain Marvel (Echoes of Shazam! by Alex Ross)
- Changeling Tale (Changeling by Johan Aronson)
- Cheek Copy (Office Party by Jody Williams)
- Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa (Jack Sprat and His Wife by Frederick Richardson)
- Classical Hunter
- Colony Ship (Artist's conception of the inside of an O'Neill Cylinder - NASA)
- Commedia dell'Arte (variation on Columbine by Maurice Sand from his book Masques et Bouffons)
- Corvid Tropes
- Dark Age Europe (Night Landscape with Ruined Monastery by Lluís Rigalt)
- Dawn of the Wild West (Sacajawea Guiding the Expedition from Mandan Through the Rocky Mountains by Alfred Russel)
- Death World (art by Steve Munsinger)
- Demonization (Ego sum Papa by an unknown artist, late 15th century Paris)
- Demon King Nobunaga (left half: Portrait of Oda Nobunaga by Kano Motohide, c.16th century)
- Dowsing Device (A Water Witch or Dowser, 16th-century woodcut)
- Elevator Tropes (Otis Elevator Company)
- Eskimo Land
- Escapism (street art by Dran)
- Evil Colonialist (Conquistador — Hernán Cortez by Lynd Kendall Ward)
- Face Death with Dignity (The hanging of Nathan Hale)
- Female Angel, Male Demon (Angel VS Demon by Joe Slucher)
- Food Fight (Chaos in the Cafeteria
by Debbie Palen)
- French Cuisine Is Haughty (illustration by A.B. Frost for the book Pomona's Travels by Frank R. Stockton)
- Gilded Cage (Her Gilded Cage by Liz Chernov)
- God Was My Copilot (Arjun & Shree Krishna at War)
- Golem (Golem by Philippe Semeria)
- The Good Kingdom (Entrée d'Isabeau de Bavière dans Paris by Philippe de Mazerolles)
- Gossip Evolution (Chain of Gossip by Norman Rockwell)
- Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper (The Kids Are Alright by Pia Guerra)
- The Highwayman
- Hover Tank (by Eli Maffei)
- Insect Index (A Dragon-fly, Two Moths, a Spider and Some Beetles, With Wild Strawberries by Jan Van Kassel)
- Kappa (Drawing of Kappa which was caught in net on Mito east beach, 1836)
- King of the Homeless (Hobo King by Alex Gornicki)
- Kitsune (Jiuweihu
by Wushí Feng Xìn
)
- Knight in Shining Armor (Sir Lancelot Gives His Shield into Elaine's Keeping by Arthur A. Dixon)
- Last-Minute Reprieve (A last minute reprieve saved Fyodor Dostoievski from the firing squad by Ralph Bruce)
- Legendary Carp
- Literature.Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue by Gustave Doré)
- Literature.Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Hop O' My Thumb pulls off the boots of the giant by Gustave Doré)
- Literature.Puss in Boots (Le Chat Botté by Gustave Doré)
- Lobotomy
- Locked Away in a Monastery (Depiction of a bishop blessing an anchoress found in a manuscript from circa 1400)
- Luxury Tropes (Lady Catherine Henriette)
- Mad Scientist Laboratory (Frankenstein's Laboratory by Stephan Martiniere)
- Medical Horror (Chantal Gare Orsay Scalp by Jean-Claude Claeys)
- Medieval Ballads (illustration from Cantigas de Santa Maria)
- Medieval European Fantasy (Fantasy Tavern by Javier Charro)
- Mighty Roar (by Bobby Chiu)
- Mother Nature
- The Mothman (by David Deen
)
- Murder Water (Magnitude 9 by Clément Boulet)
- Nephilim
- Nightmare Fuel.Fairy Tales in General (Tom Pouce by Gustave Doré)
- No Eye in Magic (Perseus Beheads Medusa by Luigi Ademollo)
- The Nondescript ("No foto" by Piotr VaGla Waglowski)
- Odd Job Gods (Skadi Hunting in the Mountains by "H. L. M". Illustration from the book Asgard Stories, 1901)
- Older Than They Think
- The Owl-Knowing One (Wise Owl by Cornelis Bloemaert II)
- Palette-Swapped Alien Food (Alien Fast Food by David Evans)
- Performance Anxiety (illustration by Janet Street
)
- Philosophy Tropes
- Piano Drop (illustration by Luc Melanson
- Place of Power (Star Maker by Les Edwards)
- The Power of Creation (Divine Play by Freydoon Rassouli)
- Quick Draw (Quick Draw by David Creighton-Pester and Evan Ferstenfeld)
- Reign of Terror
- Ringworld Planet (NASA 1970s space colony artwork
, ID NUMBER AC75-1886 by Rick Guidice)
- River of Insanity (H.M.S. Intrepid trapped in pack ice in Baffin Bay, circa 1853, sketch by Commander May R.N.)
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment (2nd image: Portrait of Niccolò Paganini by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
- Royals Who Actually Do Something (Anglo-Saxon king and His Armour-Bearer Equipped for Battle)
- Russian Roulette (Dogs Playing Russian Roulette by Chuck Ballew)
- Scary Jack-in-the-Box (Scary Jack in the Box by Mark Fredrickson)
- Seductive Mummy (Hot Mummy by Raquel Versteeg)
- Shoot the Messenger (by John McGlynn)
- Sinking Ship Scenario
- Snowball Fight
- Subways Suck (AM New York by Dean Kotz)
- A Taste of the Lash (British Military Discipline, 19th century wood engraving)
- Too Smart for Strangers (coloring page)
- Tower of Babel (Building of the Tower of Babel by Bedford Master)
- Trauma Swing
- Trial by Ordeal (Ordeal of boiling water from a Sachsenspiegel manuscript (1350-1375))
- True Art (Art Experts Look at Painting by Gerhard Haderer)
- UsefulNotes.Date Masamune
- UsefulNotes.Punic Wars (Second Punic War: Hannibal Crosses the Alps with His Elephants by Heinrich Leutemann)
- UsefulNotes.The Napoleonic Wars (cover of Napoleons Karten der Schweiz)
- UsefulNotes.The Prophet Muhammad (Muhammad Receiving Revelation from the Angel Gabriel from the manuscript Jami' al-tawarikh by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani)
- Voodoo Zombie (Zombie Pirate - M'Dongo by Miles Teves)
- War Is Hell (Trench Suicide by Otto Dix)
- Weapons of Their Trade (Robert Kett leads the Peasants Revolt by Cecil Doughty)
- Western Animation (Greatest Cartoon Characters by Ryan Dunlavey
)
- Wings Do Nothing
- You Shall Not Pass! (Birth of the Roman Empire by Severino Baraldi)
Embroideries / Tapestries
- UsefulNotes.The House of Normandy (section of the The Bayeux Tapestry)
Paintings
- The '90s (Let's Party Like It's the '90s by Espinal Photography
)
- Abandon Ship (Naufrage du Titanic by Willy Stöwer)
- Absurdism (Sisyphus by Franz Stuck)
- Afterlife Tropes (The Ramparts of God's House by John Melhuish Strudwick)
- Alchemic Elementals (Elemental by Fi Bowman)
- The All-American Boy (Building a Treehouse by Henry Hintermeister)
- Alternate Landmark History (Easter Island by Chris Foss)
- American Gothic Couple (American Gothic by Grant Wood)
- Ancient Astronauts (by Boros Attila)
- Ancient Rome (Caracalla and Geta by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Angel Unaware (Angel at the Door by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale)
- Animated Tattoo (by Lauren K. Cannon)
- Annoyance Tropes (A Difference of Opinion by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Arcadia (A Childhood Idyll by William Bouguereau)
- Archangel Gabriel (Annunciation by Anton Raphael Mengs)
- Archangel Michael (The Archangel Michael and the Rebel Angels by Giuseppe Cesari)
- The Armies of Heaven
- Art Imitates Art (top half: The First Thanksgiving 1621 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris)
- Artistic License Physics (Waterfall by M. C. Escher)
- At the Opera Tonight (At the Opera by Mary Cassat)
- Awesome Art (The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn)
- Babies Ever After (Our Princess by Carl Larsson)
- Back from the Dead (The Raising of Lazarus by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn)
- Bar Brawl (A Barroom Brawl by Anton Otto Fischer)
- The Bard (A Tale from the Decameron by John William Waterhouse)
- Barrier Maiden (Atlas by Boris Vallejo)
- Bizarrchitecture (Relativity by M. C. Escher)
- The Blind Leading the Blind (The Parable of the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
- Bling of War (Le Général d'Hautpoul à Cheval by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille)
- Bluebird of Happiness (Maiden Song by Emma Florence Harrison)
- Blue Blood (Call to Arms by Edmund Leighton)
- Body Language (Unconsolable Grief by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi)
- Boulder Bludgeon (Cain Kills Abel by Giacomo Palma the Younger)
- Breaking and Bloodsucking (Croglin Vampire by Les Edwards)
- The Burlesque of Venus (top third: The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli)
- Burning the Ships (Hernan Cortes scuttling his fleet off the Veracruz coast, attributed to Miguel Gonzalez)
- Burn the Witch! (from The Lost Abbeys witch's wit beer, label art by Sean Dominguez)
- Byronic Hero (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich)
- Cain and Abel (detail from The Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck)
- Call That a Formation? (bottom half: 300 Spartan Warriors by Robert Basham)
- The Captivity Narrative (The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians by Charles Ferdinand Wimar)
- Card Sharp (The Cardsharps by Caravaggio)
- Cattle Drive (Cattle Crossing by Jan Hendrik Scheltema)
- Cattle Punk (Steampunk Cowboy by Renan Motta Lima)
- The Cavalier Years (The Wounded Cavalier by William Shakespeare Burton)
- Cavalry Officer (Hussar by Jan van Chelminski)
- The Chain of Harm (Anger Transference by Richard Sargent)
- Chandler's Law (edit of Jesus at the Door by Del Parson)
- Chariot Race (by Rubik Kocharian
)
- The Charmer (The Spider and the Fly by Eugen de Blaas)
- Chiaroscuro (The Denial of St. Peter by Gerrit van Honthorst)
- Child Eater (Saturn Devouring One of His Children by Peter Paul Rubens)
- Child Prodigy (Mozart by Thaddäus Helbling)
- Children Are Innocent (Breton Schoolgirls by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer)
- A Child Shall Lead Them (Vox Populi or A Little Prince Likely in Time to Bless a Royal Throne by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Chivalric Romance (The Past by Thomas Cole)
- Chokepoint Geography (300 Spartans on Thursdays by Louis S. Glanzman)
- Circassian Beauty (A Circassian Girl by Henry Hall Pickersgill)
- The City (Der Besuch des Landesvaters/The Visit of the Country Father by Carl Spitzweg)
- Classical Music (collage)
- Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth
- Color-Coded Patrician (Mosaic of Emperor Justinian and his court, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, circa 547 AD.)
- ComicBook.Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Holiday in Duckburg by Carl Barks)
- Confessional (La Confessione by Giuseppe Molteni)
- The Conqueror (Mehmed II Entering Constantinople by Fausto Zonaro)
- Cosmic Egg (Cosmic Egg Theory by Carol Phillipson)
- Crazy Jealous Guy (Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
- Creator.Hieronymus Bosch (The Hell panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch)
- Creator.Lawrence Alma-Tadema (A Coign of Vantage by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Creator.Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
- Creepy Changing Painting (Mona Lisa, La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci)
- Curiosity Is a Crapshoot (Psyche Opening the Golden Box by John William Waterhouse)
- Currency Tropes (The Moneylender and His Wife by Quentin Massys)
- The Cycle of Empires (top-left: Battle Scene with a Roman Army Besieging a Large City by Juan De La Corte; bottom: The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole)
- Damsel Errant (Una and the Red Cross Knight by George Frederic Watts)
- Dances and Balls (The Dance in Cupid's Alley by Arthur Rackham)
- Dead Artists Are Better (The Skeleton Painter by James Ensor)
- Death and the Maiden (Death and the Maiden by Adolf Hering)
- Death by Childbirth (The Birth of Benjamin and the Death of Rachel by Domenico Chiesura)
- Death Is Dramatic (Lamentation over the Dead Christ by Sandro Botticelli)
- Death Tropes (Witness My Act and Seal by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Den of Iniquity (A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth)
- Dining in the Buff (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet)
- Dirty Old Monk (A Monk and a Nun by Cornelis van Haarlem)
- Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe (The Red Beret (Dog) By Dan Craig)
- Divine Date (Cupid and Psyche by Benjamin West)
- Divine Right of Kings (Louis XIV Dressed In Roman Style by Pierre Mignard)
- Don't Fear the Reaper (Angel of Death by Evelyn De Morgan)
- The Dragonslayer (St. George and the Dragon by Girard Master)
- Dramatic Sit-Down (Depressed Man by Vincent Willem van Gogh)
- Dream Weaver (Bubble Blower by Josephine Wall
)
- Droit du Seigneur (Le Droit du Seigneur by Vasily Polenov)
- The Drunken Sailor (wood engraving, American, late 19th century)
- Eagleland (1st image: From Concord to Tranquility by Norman Rockwell)
- Eerily Out-of-Place Object (Big Ben by Marksart)
- Elders (The Eve of Peace by George Frederic Watts)
- Electronic Telepathy (Silent Warrior by Sam R. Kennedy)
- Embarrassing Tattoo (The Tattoo Artist by Norman Rockwell)
- The Emperor (Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
- English Rose (Girl With Lilac by Albert Henry Collings)
- Enthralling Siren (The Sirens and Ulysses by William Etty)
- Evil Lawyer Joke (Counsel Approaching Bench by Jeff Leedy)
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin (Dogs Playing Poker Waterloo by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge)
- Eye Motifs (Jellyfish Eyes by Takashi Murakami)
- Faerie Court (Arrival of the King and Queen of Fairyland by E. Stuart Hardy)
- Fainting (A Delightful Waltz by John Brandard)
- Family Tropes (The Royal Family in 1846 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter)
- Fanservice with a Smile (Diner Waitress or Diner Girl by Greg Hildebrandt)
- Finish Him! (Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme)
- First Kiss (Cupid and Psyche as Children by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
- Fixing the Game (Dogs Playing Poker Waterloo by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge)
- Flaming Devil (Gay Devil by John Freel)
- Fleur de Lis (Maria de' Medici (1573-1642), Queen of France since 1600 by Frans Pourbus the Younger)
- Flower Motifs (Spring or våren by Carl Larsson)
- Fluffy Cloud Heaven (Heaven's Gate by Danny Hahlbohm
)
- Flying Dutchman (The Flying Dutchman by Howard Pyle)
- Foregone Conclusion (Titanic by Gordon Johnson)
- Forging Scene (The Forge of Vulcan by Luca Giordano)
- Forgiveness (The Return of the Prodigal Son or Le retour de l'enfant prodigue by James Tissot)
- Forty-Niner (Colorado Gold Rush 1859 by Alfredo Rodríguez)
- For Want of a Nail (For Want of a Nail by Scott Gustafson)
- Franchise.Donald Duck (Lavender and Old Lace by Carl Barks)
- Friendship Tropes (Horae Serenae by Sir Edward John Poynter)
- Full-Frontal Assault (by Angus McBride)
- Fusion Dance (Fusion ya!! by Alexandre Deviers/Pandaluna)
- The Gambling Addict (The Hazard Room by Thomas Rowlandson)
- Garden of Love (Herzengeheimnis by Ludwig Knoefel)
- Gender-Blending Tropes (Louis Joseph Xavier by Marc Nattier)
- Ghibli Hills (The Glen by Maxfield Parrish)
- Giant Squid (by Pierre Dénys de Montfort)
- God (The Four and Twenty Elders Casting Their Crowns Before the Divine Throne by William Blake)
- God Couple (Zeus and Hera, inspired by The Presentation of the Portrait [detail] by Peter Paul Rubens)
- God-Eating (Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco de Goya)
- God in Human Form (Jesus & Krishna by EDDANIMA
)
- God Is Good (The Creation of the Animals by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
- Good Samaritan (The Good Samaritan by Joseph Brickey)
- Good Wings, Evil Wings (variation on The Archangel Michael by Guido Reni)
- Gorgeous Greek (Helen of Troy by Evelyn de Morgan)
- Götterdämmerung (Valhalla in Flames by Max Brückner)
- Grandpa God (Creation of Adam by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
- Guardian Angel (Guardian Angel and Children Crossing Bridge by Lindberg Heilige Schutzengel)
- Gulliver Tie-Down (Gulliver in Lilliput by Chris Beatrice
)
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold (Rapunzel by Emma Florence Harrison)
- Happiness Tropes (A Birthday by Emma Florence Harrison)
- Heat Wave (Heat Wave by Carl Barks)
- Heaven Above (The Temptation of Christ by the Devil by Félix Joseph Barrias)
- The High Queen (The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Hollywood Drowning (Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein)
- Holy Burns Evil (Dracula: The Cross #69 by Greg Hildebrandt)
- Horned Humanoid (Horned God's Daughter by *michalivan)
- Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Four Horsemen of Apocalypse by Viktor Vasnetsov)
- Hot God (Les Liens du désir by Luis Royo)
- Hot Librarian (Quiet Please Librarian by Richie Fahey)
- Hula and Luaus (Aloha by Kerne Erickson)
- Humans Are Bastards (Dante and Virgil in Hell by William Bouguereau)
- I Kiss Your Hand (Ask Me No More by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness (The Temptation of Christ by Ary Scheffer)
- Indian Maiden (Peace by Lee Bogle)
- Industrial Ghetto (Sheffield, England, 1884)
- The Ingenue (The Ingenue by Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
- Injury Tropes (The Order of Release by Sir John Everett Milais)
- It Came from the Fridge (Expired by Jessica Lanan)
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One (Christ Carrying the Cross by Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto)
- Judgement of Paris (The Judgment of Paris by Jacques Wagrez)
- Judgment of Solomon (Fresco in Pilgrimage church of Frauenberg, Austria)
- Just for Fun.Anaprotestantism (1st image: The Battle of Vienna, after 1683 by Pauwel Casteels)
- Just for Fun.Anaprotestantism (2nd image: Christ & Young Women, Mormon Art)
- Kangaroo Court (by Scott Page
)
- Knight Errant (The White Knight by Walter Crane)
- Lady and Knight (A Knight and His Lady by William G. Mackenzie)
- The Lady's Favour (God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Last Kiss (The Meeting on Turret Stairs by Frederick William Burton
)
- "Leave Your Quest" Test (Ulysse et Calypso by N.C. Wyeth)
- Legion of Lost Souls (by Peter Dennis)
- Let's Duet (Duet by Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen)
- Light Is Good (A Pilgrim by Arild Rosenkrantz
)
- Lonely Funeral (The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer)
- Looks Like Jesus (Portrait of King Charles I, National Portrait Gallery, unknown artist)
- Lost in the Maize (Wheatfield with Crows by Vincent Willem van Gogh)
- Love Goddess (Eros by Jacques Clément Wagrez)
- Love Imbues Life (Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Léon Gérôme)
- Lover and Beloved (David och Saul by Julius Kronberg)
- Loyal Animal Companion (Una and the Lion by Briton Rivière)
- Macho Masochism (Mucius Scaevola Before Porsenna by Peter Paul Rubens and van Dyck)
- Madonna Archetype (Charity by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
- Made a Slave (Captive Andromache by Frederick Leighton)
- Magical Barefooter (The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse)
- Magic Carpet (Riding a Flying Carpet by Viktor Vasnetsov)
- The Man Is Sticking It to the Man (Destroy Capitalism by Banksy)
- Matron Chaperone (A Stolen Interview by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Masquerade Ball (The masked ball by Georges Jules Victor Clairin)
- Meaningful Funeral (Funeral March by Charles Carol Coleman)
- Medicine Show (The Snake Oil Salesman by Morgan Weistling)
- Messianic Archetype (The Transfiguration by Carl Heinrich Bloch)
- Midnight Snack (Midnight Snack by C.F. Payne)
- Mind Screw (Time Transfixed or La Durée poignardée by René Magritte)
- Moral Dilemma (Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder)
- The Muse (The Dream of the Poet or The Kiss of the Muse by Paul Cézanne)
- Music Soothes the Savage Beast (Orpheus by Tadeusz Styka)
- Music Tropes (The Music of a Bygone Age by John Melhuish Strudwick)
- Myth.King Arthur (King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler)
- Myth.Celtic Mythology (The Children of Lir by Jim Fitzpatrick)
- Myth.Classical Mythology (The Twelve Olympians by Nicolas-André Monsiau)
- Myth.Lilith (Lilith by John Collier)
- Myth.Norse Mythology (Thor's Fight with the Giants by Mårten Eskil Winge)
- Myth.Paul Bunyan (Dug the Grand Canyon When He Dragged His Axe Behind Him by Ron Borresen)
- Myth.Saint George (St. George Killing the Dragon by Bernat Martorell)
- Myth.The Lady of the Lake (Lady of the Lake by Diana Van Damme)
- Narcissist (Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse)
- Nice Job Breaking It, Herod! (Massacre of the Innocents by Giotto)
- Nighthawks Shot (top half: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper)
- NightmareFuel.Art (Poltergeist II by H. R. Giger)
- Noble Savage (Painting of Native American by N.C. Wyeth)
- Offered the Crown (Battle of Guadalete by Salvador Martinez Cubells)
- Older Than Dirt (Magdalenian painting in Lascaux Cave, c. 17,000 BCE)
- Older Than Feudalism (Ancient Roman Floor mosaic at the Baths of Musiciolus
in Ostia)
- Older Than Steam (Der Gaukler by Hieronymus Bosch)
- Open Shirt Taunt (The Execution of Marshal Ney by Édouard Armand Dumaresq)
- The Ophelia (Ophelia by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret)
- OurAngelsAreDifferent.The Bible (Archangel Michael by Darko Topalski)
- Outliving One's Offspring (Death of the Pharaoh's First Born Son by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Out-of-Character Moment (Expulsion of the Money-Changers from the Temple by Giotto di Bondone)
- Painters (Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood by John Singer Sargent)
- Paper-Thin Disguise.Literature (Little Red Riding Hood by Scott Gustafson)
- Parasol of Prettiness (Oriental Girl with Parasol by Marty Noble)
- Pardo Push (Pardo's Push by S.W. Ferguson)
- The Parent Trope (Queen Blanka by Albert Edelfelt)
- Past Experience Nightmare (Ivan the Terrible and the Souls of His Victims by Mikhail Clodt)
- Patron Saint (Wilton Diptych [left panel], unknown artist, original in the National Gallery, London)
- Pimped-Out Dress.Real Life (Portrait of Elizabeth of Austria, Queen consort of Charles IX of France by Joris van der Straeten [Georges van der Straeten, Jorge de la Rúa or Gregorio de Gant])
- The Pioneer (I Shall Never Forget the Sight... by N. C. Wyeth)
- Pirate (Captain Sam Bellamy and the Whydah by Don Maitz)
- Pocket Dimension (art by Dan LuVisi
)
- Pooled Funds (Sport of Tycoons by Carl Barks)
- Postmodernism (La Trahison des images by René Magritte)
- Pre-Climax Climax (When the World Ends by Amanda Rene Bussell)
- Proper Lady (A Lady with a Parasol Showing How to Make a Strawberry Barrel by Percy Tarrant)
- Prospector (The Old Prospector by Alfredo Rodríguez)
- Public Domain Artifact (bottom-right: The Golden Fleece Dream by William Prosser)
- Putto (top: The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel; middle: Charity by William-Adolphe Bouguereau; bottom: Putti Making Music by François Boucher)
- Pygmalion Plot (Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Léon Gérôme)
- Racing the Train (Porsche/Mille Miglia by James Dugdale)
- Rain Dance (Rain Dance by Tom Phillips)
- Reclining Venus (top third: Sleeping Venus by Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; middle third: The Nude Maja by Francisco Goya; bottom third: Odalisque by Jules Joseph Lefebvre)
- Religious Robot (by Sunflowerman
)
- Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain (Warning: Zombie Infestation by Doug P'Gosh)
- Rescued from the Underworld (Orpheus Tries to Rescue His Wife Eurydice from the Underworld But He Mustn't Look Back as They Go by Briout)
- Resurrection Tropes (The Resurrection by Carl Heinrich Bloch)
- Revenge (The Day the Chicken Fought Back by Kelly Hutchison)
- The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified (Liberty Leading the People by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix)
- Revolving Door Revolution (by Pawel Kuczynski)
- Riddle of the Sphinx (Oedipus and the Sphinx of Thebes, c. 470 BCE, by the "Oedipus Painter")
- Rogue Juror (The Jury Room by Norman Rockwell)
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment (1st image: Paganini by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix)
- Rouge Angles of Satin (top half)
- Royal Blood (Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna by Laurits Tuxen)
- Royally Screwed Up (König Karl II. von Spanien (1661-1700) by Juan Carreño de Miranda)
- Royalty and Nobility Tropes (Portrait of Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811-1890), Queen consort of Prussia by Franz Xaver Winterhalter)
- Rule of Symbolism (Vanitas by Pieter Claesz)
- Sad Clown (Old Sadface, Craft Master paint-by-number painting)
- Sadness Tropes (All Souls' Day by William Bouguereau)
- The Savage Indian (The Death of Jane McCrea by John Vanderlyn)
- The Scream (The Scream or Skrik by Edvard Munch)
- Scullery Maid (A Scully Maid Preparing a Chicken by Williem Joseph Laquy)
- Second Coming (The Second Coming by Harry Anderson)
- Seppuku (Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Kunikazu Utagawa)
- Serenade Your Lover (The Serenade by Federico Andreotti)
- Seven Heavenly Virtues (fresco at the Palazzo Pubblico
, Siena, Tuscany, Italy)
- Sexbot (art by Hajime Sorayama)
- Shoe Shine, Mister? (Shoeshine Boy by Karl Witkowski)
- Shot at Dawn (The Third of May 1808 by Francisco de Goya)
- Sibling Rivalry (She's My Girl by J.C. Leyendecker)
- Sirens Are Mermaids (Siren's Lament by Anne Stokes)
- Sistine Steal (The Immaculate Jim by Dave Hulteen)
- Smile Tropes (Brita and I by Carl Larssen)
- Snake Oil Salesman (Rural America: Traveling Salesman of "Cure-All" Tonic, unknown artist, 1940s advert; original in the Peter Newark American Pictures)
- Social Ornithopod (Iguanodon Herd by Douglas Henderson)
- Socialist Realism (The First Tractor by Vladimir Krikhatsky)
- Soiled City on a Hill (The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin)
- Son of Trope, Daughter of Index (Penelope Unravelling Her Web by Lamp Light, Joseph Wright of Derby)
- Species-Specific Afterlife (All Dogs Go To Heaven 4 by Jim Warren)
- Spooky Painting (The Hands Resist Him by Bill Stoneham)
- Standing Between the Enemies (The Intervention of the Sabine Women by Jacques-Louis David)
- Star-Crossed Lovers (tanabata4 by Yuko Hamasaki)
- Starfish Aliens (by Michael Dashow)
- Starving Artist (The Poor Poet by Carl Spitzweg)
- A Storm Is Coming (The Storm or L'Orage by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
- Street Urchin (Tokai by Rafiqun Nabi)
- The Strongman (Louis Cyr, Strongest Man on Earth, 1898 vintage poster)
- Summoning Ritual (Tiresias Appears to Ulysses During the Sacrificin by Henry Fuseli)
- Surrealism (Indefinite Divisibility by Yves Tanguy)
- Survivor Guilt (Reflections by Lee Teeter
)
- Swallowed Whole (Jonah and the Whale by Pieter Lastman)
- Swing Low, Sweet Harriet (The Swing by Fragonard)
- Sword of Damocles (The Sword of Damocles by Richard Westall)
- Symbolic Wings (Husaria's Attack by Aleksander Orłowski)
- Tank Goodness (Landkreuzer P-1000 Ratte by Ivan Troitsky
)
- Tastes Like Diabetes (by Lisa Frank)
- Tearful Smile (Crying Girl by Roy Lichtenstein)
- Temper-Ceratops (One Split Second by Luis V. Rey)
- Things That Go "Bump" in the Night (Bogeyman by Michael Whelan)
- Thousand-Yard Stare (The 2000 Yard Stare by Thomas Lea)
- The Three Faces of Adam (The Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence by Titian)
- Time Crash (Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion by Salvador Dalí)
- Time Tropes (Three Curious Cats by Arthur Heyer)
- Top God (The Olympus by Luigi Sabatelli)
- Town with a Dark Secret (by Neko Pilarcik)
- Tragic Bromance (Orvar-Odd and Hjalmar Bid Each Other Farewell by Mårten Eskil Winge)
- Trojan Horse (Le Cheval de Troie by Henri-Paul Motte)
- Troll (Cybertroll by LemonArt)
- Tropes of Innocence (Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent)
- Underwater Base (from The Venus Project
)
- Underwater City (Underwater Cities by Kenneth Fagg)
- Unicorns Prefer Virgins (A Virgin with a Unicorn, by Domenico Zampieri)
- Unrequited Tragic Maiden (The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse)
- UsefulNotes.Alchemy (Der Alchemist by Joseph Leopold Ratinckx)
- UsefulNotes.Alexander the Great (Alexander and Porus by Charles Le Brun)
- UsefulNotes.Christmas in America (Merry Christmas, Granny by Norman Rockwell)
- UsefulNotes.Cossacks (Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire by Ilya Repin)
- UsefulNotes.Ireland (2nd image: [Brian Cowen nude] by Conor Casby)
- UsefulNotes.Jesus
- UsefulNotes.Joan of Arc (Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
- UsefulNotes.Napoleon Bonaparte (The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David)
- UsefulNotes.Orthodox Christianity (Jesus Christ Pantocrator [detail from deesis mosaic] from Hagia Sophia)
- UsefulNotes.Sapphism (Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene by Simeon Solomon)
- UsefulNotes.The Crusades (Procession of Crusaders Around Jerusalem by Jean-Victor Schnetz)
- UsefulNotes.The Delaware (Penn's Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West)
- UsefulNotes.The French Revolution (Storming of the Bastille and Arrest of the Governor M. de Launay, July 14, 1789., Museum of the History of France, unknown artist)
- UsefulNotes.The Knights Hospitallers (Portrait of Knight of Malta by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)
- UsefulNotes.The Pope (St. Lawrence Receiving the Treasures of the Church from St. Sixtus [detail] by Fra Angelico)
- UsefulNotes.The Protestant Reformation (Luther Hammers His 95 Theses To The Door by Ferdinand Pauwels)
- UsefulNotes.The Seventh Cavalry (Charge Of The Seventh Cavalry by Frank Feller)
- UsefulNotes.The Spanish Inquisition (The Inquisition Tribunal or Auto de fe de la Inquisición by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes)
- UsefulNotes.The Teutonic Knights (The Teutonic's Charge at the Lake Peipus by Guiseppe Rava)
- UsefulNotes.Thanksgiving Day (Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell)
- UsefulNotes.Thirty Years War (Wallenstein: A Scene of the Thirty Years' War by Ernest Crofts)
- UsefulNotes.Timur the Lame (Sultan Bayezid imprisoned by Timur by Stanisław Chlebowski)
- UsefulNotes.Tsarist Russia (Tzar Mikhail Fedorovich Holding Council with the Boyars in His Royal Chamber by Andrei Ryabushkin)
- Utopia (The Prologue and the Promise by Robert McCall)
- Valkyries (The Ride of the Valkyries by William T. Maud)
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs (The Storm Worsens and Wotan Arrives by Arthur Rackham)
- Viking Funeral (The Funeral of a Viking by Frank B. Dicksee)
- Walk, Don't Swim (Underwater March by Francesco Francavilla)
- Walk on Water (painting of Peter and Jesus on the Sea of Galilee, Greek Catholic Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Hungary, unknown artist)
- Walk the Plank (Walking the Plank by Howard Pyle)
- Wallet Moths (by Franz Scholz
)
- Wandering Minstrel (Young Man Playing the Lute by Frans Hals)
- War Is Glorious (Le Trophée by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille)
- Warrior Prince (Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales (1330-76), "The Black Prince" by Benjamin Burnell)
- We Help the Helpless (The Rescue by Arthur Hughes)
- What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs? (Departure of Winged Ship by Vladimir Kush)
- White Stallion (Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David)
- The Wild Hunt (Åsgårdsreien by Peter Nicolai Arbo)
- The Wild West (Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world, poster circa 1898)
- William Telling (Anonymous artist, lithograph from picturebook circa 1850)
- Wine Is Classy (Self portrait with a glass of wine by Arnold Böcklin)
- Wooden Ships and Iron Men (Battle of Trafalgar by Justin Sweet)
- World War II.War in Asia and the Pacific (3rd image: The Battle of Midway by Howard David Johnson)
- Working-Class Werewolves
- Yuki-onna
Prints
- Alien Geometries (Another World by M. C. Escher)
- Art Nouveau (Le Fruit by Alfons Mucha)
- Bodyguard Betrayal (The Death of Caligula, Etching by G. Mochetti after drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli)
- Camp Follower (Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection)
- Chinese Laborer (Chinese, Gold Mining in California by Roy Daniel)
- Chinese Launderer (19th century)
- Comet of Doom (Halley's Comet over England)
- Cool Helmet (center: Otto von Bismarck)
- Death of the Author (Death Found an Author Writing His Life by Edward Hull)
- Devil in Disguise (print included in The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire)
- DIY Dentistry (1810 comic print)
- Dragon Tropes (Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatishna from the dragon Gorynych by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin)
- The Exile (Adam and Eve Driven Out of Eden by Gustave Doré and Heliodore Joseph Pisan)
- Fallen Hero (from John Milton's Paradise Lost, illustration by Gustave Doré)
- Filching Food for Fun (Scrumping by Ron Embleton)
- Fire and Brimstone Hell (from Hortus Deliciarum, illustration by Herrad of Landsberg)
- Foot Bath Treatment (by Inez Topham)
- Garden of Eden (Original Sin, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, late 19th Chromolithography)
- Gashadokuro (top third: Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre by Utagawa Kuniyoshi)
- The Grand Hunt (a medieval forest, from Livre de chasse (1387) by Gaston III, Count of Foix)
- The Great Flood (The Flood by Gustave Doré)
- Healer God (Jesus Raising Jairus's Daughter by John Lawson)
- Heaven (from The Golden Legend, illustration by Simon Meteyard)
- Hell (from Dante Alighieri's Inferno, illustration by Gustave Doré)
- The High Middle Ages (The First Crusade, illustration by Gustave Doré)
- Historical Beauty Update (left half: Drottning Kristina by Sébastien Bourdon)
- Holy Is Not Safe (Nadab and Abihu Destroyed by Phillip Medhurst)
- Horror Films (Classic Horror Guice by AlexDouMan)
- Human Sacrifice (Sacrifices humains by Pierre Fritel)
- Hunter Trapper (Seth Kinman, California Hunter and Trapper by Elliott & Armstead)
- The Illuminati (official rendering of the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States)
- It's Not Porn, It's Art (Pervert vs. Artist by Wilhelm Staehle)
- Just Like Robin Hood
- King in the Mountain (Friedrich I Barbarossa, from Young Persons' Cyclopedia of Persons and Places, 1881)
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition (The Creation of Light by Gustave Doré)
- Myth.Faust (Faust's Pact with Mephisto by Julius Nisle)
- Myth.King Arthur and the Holy Grail ("And across it slowly moved the Holy Grail" by Walter J. Enright)
- Nightmare Fuel.Game Theory (Exécution par éléphant, from Le Tour du Monde, 1868)
- Opium Den (American Opium-Smokers Interior of a New York Opium Den by J.W. Alexander)
- Oppressive States of America (art by David Dees
)
- Political Cartoons (The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper by James Gillray)
- Poltergeist
- Press-Ganged The Press-Gang in New York, Howard Pyle, 1882)
- Ruling Couple (Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain)
- The Rustler (Cattle Raid on the Texas Border, 1874)
- Sacred Hospitality (Sieglinde Serves a Meal by Arthur Rackham)
- Salvage Pirates (Wreckers at Work on the Shores of Cornwall)
- Satan (from Dante Alighieri's Inferno, illustration by Gustave Doré)
- Seers (Delphic Oracle by Heinrich Leutemann)
- Sentenced to Down Under (Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay, 1792)
- Settings (from The Feather of Finist the Falcon, illustration by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin)
- Slave Market (Lincoln at New Orleans Slave Market by Joseph Boggs Beale)
- Spirited Young Lady (L'Inconvénience des Perruques/The Inconvenience of Wigs by Carle Vernet, engraving by F. Sansom)
- Stocking Filler (from 1904 catalog Les Dessous Élégants, illustration by unknown artist}
- Threshold Guardians (from Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf, illustration by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin)
- The Tourney (illustration from the Codex Manesse, ca. 1340 AD)
- Trial by Combat (Judicial duel between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and Theodor Haschenacker in the Augsburg wine market, 1409)
- Twilight of the Old West
- UsefulNotes.Walpurgisnacht (Walpurgisnacht by Johann Heinrich Ramberg)
- Warrior Poet (Samurai Writing a Poem on a Flowering Cherry Tree Trunk by Ogata Gekko)
- Winged Tropes (top-right: illustration by Aubrey Beardsley)
- Wretched Hive (Gin Lane by William Hogarth)
Sculptures
- Big Fun (Budda statue at Emei Lake, Taiwan)
- Bowdlerise (David by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
- The Cardinal Virtues (Façade of La Rochelle City Hall.)
- Church Militant (Church Tank Type 5A by Kris Kuski)
- The Coconut Effect (right half: Augustus of Prima Porta; left half: painted reproduction)
- Contrapposto Pose (top-left: The Apollo Belvedere, top-right: Bellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa, bottom-left: Leonardo da Vinci's Leda and the Swan)
- Creepy Hairless Animal (Mutant rat by Pamela Contreras)
- Defiant Stone Throw (Stone as a Weapon of Proletariat by Ivan Shadr)
- Drums of War (Military Drummer Statue)
- Earth Mother (Caritas by Carl Steinhäuser)
- Eats Babies (Kindlifresserbrunnen [Child Eater Fountain] in Bern, Switzerland)
- Elephant in the Living Room (by Banksy)
- Entry Pimp (Adam Beck Memorial Toronto by sculptor Emanuel Hahn)
- Evil Puppeteer (The Puppeteer by Thomas Kuebler)
- Face-Design Shield (Greek Hoplite with Bronze Reinforced Linen Armor and Corinthian Helmet)
- I Don't Pay You to Think (The Thinker or Le Penseur by François-Auguste-René Rodin combined with a clipart of a money bag with a no sign)
- Kiss of Death (The Kiss of Death or El Petó de la Mort, attributed to Jaume Barba)
- Literature.Aesop's Fables (bust of Aesop)
- Literature.Reynard the Fox (statue of Reynard in Hulst, Netherlands)
- Literature.The Republic (bust of Plato)
- Male Frontal Nudity (David by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
- Money Tropes (Allegories of Magnificence and Magnanimity by Jacquio Ponce)
- Myth.Battle of Clavijo (Mural of the Cathedral of Santiago da Compostela)
- Nemean Skinning (bust of Hercules)
- No Communities Were Harmed (left half: Statue of Liberty by Auguste Bartholdi)
- Oni
- Our Archons Are Different (middle-left: ancient coin depicting the Demiurge)
- Our Founder (John Harvard statue by sculptor Daniel Chester French)
- Pietà Plagiarism (top half: St. Peter's Pietà by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
- Rainbow Tropes (Plexus A1 by Gabriel Dawe)
- Sadly Mythcharacterized (left half: statue of Shiva)
- Textile Work Is Feminine (Ancient Babylonian relief from Susa)
- Thinker Pose (The Thinker or Le Penseur by François-Auguste-René Rodin)
- Trope Co.Adorable Abomination (Mr. Dob Figure A (Dobtopus) by Takashi Murakami)
- Trope Co.Red Oni, Blue Oni (Embodiment of "A" and Embodiment of "Um" by Takashi Murakami)
- True Art Is Incomprehensible (The Lights Going On and Off by Martin Creed)
- Ur-Example (The Epic of Gilgamesh relief)
- UsefulNotes.Ancient Greece (Porch of the Caryatids, The Acropolis, Athens, Greece)
- UsefulNotes.Cleopatra VII (bust of Cleopatra VII)
- UsefulNotes.Dichter and Denker (statues of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
- UsefulNotes.Objectivism (Atlas)
- UsefulNotes.Ramses II (close-up of Ramses II's giant statue in Egypt)
- UsefulNotes.The Roman Republic (Capitoline Wolf bronze, 13th century, unknown artist)
- UsefulNotes.Tutankhamun (Tutankhamun's death mask)
- The Walls Have Eyes (Wall of Eyes by Adrian Baynes)