Image Source / Arts

Drawings

• 1 Million B.C. (Cavemen, Dinosaur and Volcano by Gerry Wood)
• 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)
• 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)
• Changeling Tale (Changeling by Johan Aronson)
• Cheek Copy (Office Party by Jody Williams)
• 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 15^th century Paris)
• Demon King Nobunaga (left half: Portrait of Oda Nobunaga by Kano Motohide, c.16^th century)
• Dowsing Device (A Water Witch or Dowser, 16^th-century woodcut)
• Elevator Tropes (Otis Elevator Company)
• 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)
• The Good Kingdom (Entrée d'Isabeau de Bavière dans Paris by Philippe de Mazerolles)
• Gossip Evolution (Chain of Gossip by Norman Rockwell)
• Golem (Golem by Philippe Semeria)
• Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper (The Kids are Alright by Pia Guerra)
• The Highwayman
• Hover Tank (by Eli Maffei)
• Humans Are Special (by A. Busetto, IBACN)
• 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)
• 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
• Murder Water (Magnitude 9 by Clément Boulet)
• 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
• Our Genies Are Different (left half: A Djinn by Greg Staples)
• 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)
• Romanticism Versus Enlightenment (2^nd image: Portrait of Niccolò Paganini by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
• Rouge Angles of Satin
• 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
• A Taste of the Lash (British Military Discipline, 19^th century wood engraving)
• Tower of Babel (Building of the Tower of Babel by Bedford Master)
• Trauma Swing
• 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)
• Western Animation (Greatest Cartoon Characters by Ryan Dunlavey)
• Whole Costume Reference (left half)
• Wings Do Nothing
• You Shall Not Pass! (Birth of the Roman Empire by Severino Baraldi)

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 Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
• Angel Unaware (Angel at the Door by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale)
• Animated Tattoo (by Lauren K. Cannon)
• 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)
• Bad Dreams (Ivan the Terrible and the Souls of His Victims by Mikhail Clodt)
• Bar Brawl (A Barroom Brawl by Anton Otto Fischer)
• The Bard (A Tale from the Decameron by John William Waterhouse)
• Barefoot Loon (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V (Ophelia Before the King and Queen) by Benjamin West)
• 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)
• Bluebird of Happiness (Maiden Song by Emma Florence Harrison)
• Bling of War (Le Général d'Hautpoul à Cheval by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille)
• Blue Blood (Call to Arms by Edmund Leighton)
• Body Language (Unconsolable Grief by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi)
• Breaking and Bloodsucking (Croglin Vampire by Les Edwards)
• The Burlesque of Venus (top third: The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli)
• 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)
• 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)
• Chained to a Rock (Prometheus by Gustave Moreau)
• 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)
• 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.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 (The Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet)
• 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 19^th century)
• Eagleland (1^st image: From Concord to Tranquility by Norman Rockwell)
• 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)
• Ermine Cape Effect (Maria Antonia of Spain by Jacopo Amigoni)
• 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)
• 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 or L'Amour et Psyché, enfants 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)
• 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)
• Getting Crap Past the Radar (Cherchez la femme by Sandro del Prete)
• 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 in Human Form (Jesus & Krishna by EDDANIMA)
• God Is Good (The Creation of the Animals by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
• Go Figure (Woman Playing Go [Tang Dynasty ca. 744], discovered at the Astana Graves)
• Good Samaritan (The Good Samaritan by Joseph Brickey)
• Good Wings, Evil Wings (variation on The Archangel Michael by Guido Reni)
• 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)
• Heroic Archetype (Saint George Slaying the Dragon by Jost Holler)
• 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 by William Bouguereau)
• The Ingenue (The Ingenue by Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
• 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)
• Injury Tropes (The Order of Release by Sir John Everett Milais)
• It Came from the Fridge (Expired by Jessica Lanan)
• Judgement of Paris (The Judgment of Paris by Jacques Wagrez)
• Judgment of Solomon (Fresco in Pilgrimage church of Frauenberg, Austria)
• 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)
• 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)
• The Lost Lenore (Lost Lenore by Edward Henry Wehnert )
• Lost in the Maize (Wheatfield with Crows by Vincent Willem van Gogh)
• Love Floats (Birthday by Marc Chagall)
• Loyal Animal Companion (Una and the Lion by Briton Rivière)
• Macho Masochism (Mucius Scaevola Before Porsenna by Peter Paul Rubens and van Dyck)
• 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)
• Man in the Iron Mask (The Prisoner by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko)
• 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)
• 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)
• My God, What Have I Done? (Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, 16 November 1581 by Ilya Repin)
• Myth.Celtic Mythology (The Children of Lir by Jim Fitzpatrick)
• Myth.Classical Mythology (The Twelve Olympians by Nicolas-André Monsiau)
• 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)
• Narcissist (Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse)
• Nighthawks Shot (top half: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper)
• NightmareFuel.Art (Poltergeist II by H. R. Giger)
• Nobility Marries Money (Matchmaking of the Major by Pavel Andreevich Fedotov)
• Noble Savage (Painting of Native American by N.C. Wyeth)
• Offered the Crown (Battle of Guadalete by Salvador Martinez Cubells)
• Officer O'Hara (Thee Ould Irish Cop by Keelan McMorrow)
• 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 Edouard Armand Dumaresq)
• The Ophelia (Ophelia by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret)
• Out-of-Character Moment (Expulsion of the Money-Changers from the Temple by Giotto di Bondone)
• Outliving One's Offspring (Death of the Pharaoh's First Born Son by Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
• Parasol of Prettiness (Oriental Girl with Parasol by Marty Noble)
• The Parent Trope (Queen Blanka by Albert Edelfelt)
• Patron Saint (Wilton Diptych [left panel], unknown artist, original in the National Gallery, London)
• The Pioneer (I Shall Never Forget the Sight... by N. C. Wyeth)
• 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])
• 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)
• Proper Lady (A Lady with a Parasol Showing How to Make a Strawberry Barrel by Percy Tarrant)
• Pre-Climax Climax (When the World Ends by Amanda Rene Bussell)
• Prospector (The Old Prospector by Alfredo Rodríguez)
• Public Domain Artifact (bottom-right: The Golden Fleece Dream by William Prosser)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 (1^st image: Paganini by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix)
• Royal Blood (Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna by Laurits Tuxen)
• Royal Harem (In the Harem by Frederick Arthur Bridgman)
• 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)
• She Is the King (Ritratti Medievali II by Giacomo Jaquerio, copied from a fresco in Castello della Manta)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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}
• 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)
• 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 AIDS Story (Breathing by Hugh Steers)
• 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)
• 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 (2^nd 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.Thanksgiving Day (Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell)
• UsefulNotes.The Crusades (Procession of Crusaders Around Jerusalem by Jean-Victor Schnetz)
• 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 House of Normandy (section of the Bayeux Tapestry)
• 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 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.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)
• Valkyries (The Ride of the Valkyries by William T. Maud)
• The Vamp (Lamia [first version] by John William Waterhouse)
• 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)
• 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)
• Wallet Moths (by Franz Scholz)
• WesternAnimation.Donald Duck (Golden Helmet by Carl Barks)
• 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 (3^rd image: The Battle of Midway by Howard David Johnson)
• Your Worst Nightmare (The Nightmare by John Anster Fitzgerald)
• Yuki-onna

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Prints

• Alien Geometries (Another World by M. C. Escher)
• Art Nouveau (Le Fruit by Alfons Mucha)
• Camp Follower (Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection)
• Chinese Laborer (Chinese, Gold Mining in California by Roy Daniel)
• Chinese Launderer (19^th century)
• Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa (Jack Spratt and wife)
• Comet of Doom (Halley's Comet over England)
• Cool Helmet (center: Otto von Bismarck)
• 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)
• Fire and Brimstone Hell (from Hortus Deliciarum, illustration by Herrad of Landsberg)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Myth.Faust (Faust's Pact with Mephisto by Julius Nisle)
• 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)
• Poltergeist
• Prince Charming (from Grimm's Fairy Tales, illustration by Charles Folkard)
• Ruling Couple (Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain)
• Sacred Hospitality (Sieglinde Serves a Meal by Arthur Rackham)
• Satan (from Dante Alighieri's Inferno, illustration by Gustave Doré)
• Seers (Delphic Oracle by Heinrich Leutemann)
• Settings (from The Feather of Finist the Falcon, illustration by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin)
• 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)
• 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)
• Wretched Hive (Gin Lane by William Hogarth)

Sculptures

• Ancient Greece (Porch of the Caryatids, The Acropolis, Athens, Greece)
• Big Fun (Budda statue at Emei Lake, Taiwan)
• Bowdlerise (David by Michelangelo)
• Church Militant (Church Tank Type 5A by Kris Kuski)
• The Coconut Effect (right half: Augustus of Prima Porta; left half: painted reproduction)
• Defiant Stone Throw (Stone as a Weapon of Proletariat by Ivan Shadr)
• Earth Mother (Caritas by Carl Steinhäuser)
• Eats Babies (Kindlifresserbrunnen [Child Eater Fountain] in Bern, Switzerland)
• 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)
• Money Tropes (Allegories of Magnificence and Magnanimity by Jacquio Ponce)
• The Mothman (Statue of Mothman by Bob Roach)
• Nemean Skinning (bust of Hercules)
• Objectivism (Atlas)
• Oni
• Our Founder (John Harvard statue by sculptor Daniel Chester French)
• Pietà Plagiarism (top half: St. Peter's Pietà by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
• 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)
• True Art Is Incomprehensible (The Lights Going On and Off by Martin Creed)
• Ur-Example (The Epic of Gilgamesh relief)
• UsefulNotes.Cleopatra VII (bust of Cleopatra VII)
• UsefulNotes.Dichter and Denker (statues of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
• 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)