Claude Lorrain | The Daughters of Helios Searching for their Brother Phaeton | 1658
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
see this very nice post by Hélène Emeriaud
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Aethra and Clymene
Barrett Chute 2016-06-25
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drawings 2016-06-16
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Deccani painting
Rawat Sangram Singh I of Devgarh bathing with Ladies
Rawat Sangram Singh I of Devgarh bathing with Ladies
Rajastan | ~1710 | 50.2cm x 37.7cm
Diego Velázquez
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Diego Velázquez | 1630-1640 (c.) | British Museum
Barrett Chute 2016-05-20
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Time is a game played beautifully by children | Heraclitus
Barrett Chute 2016-05-13
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Hypotheses non fingo | I frame no hypothesis
[ from Newton’s Principia Mathematica and Cantor’s Contibutions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers ]
Surreal number tree
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By Lukáš Lánský If you want to help me create some nicer or more accurate version of this image, see Python code that generates it. I welcome pull requests. – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19134117
Matisse
Henri Matisse drawing sketches for the murals of the Chapelle des Dominicains, France | Robert Capa
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Childhood home of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) : Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu | birthplace of 21st century physics | [ see also this in Quanta on the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture ]
Vessels in a Choppy Sea
Richard Parkes Bonington | ca. 1824 | w21.3 x h14 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
La Baie de l’Estaque
Paul Cézanne | La Baie de l’Estaque | ca 1878–82 | collection : F. Chédeville
Cézanne
Paul Cézanne outside his studio at Les Lauves in Provence. Photo taken in April, 1906, six months before his death.
[ image thanks to @rabihalameddine ]