Illustration To Milton`s Paradise Lost (1807) By William Blake

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Dominique Louis Féréol Papety (Marseille 1815-1848)

The odalisque / La odalisca

Our Daily Bread — Rene Magritte

Our Daily Bread, 1942 by Rene Magritte (1898-1967)

Dance, Alfons Mucha, 1898

Illustration from The Ship of Ishtar by Virgil Finlay (1949)

Dante Running from the Three Beasts, William Blake, between 1824 and 1827

The Kiss of the Sphinx by Franz von Stuck (1895)

Eldorado

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—

This knight so bold—

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—

"Shadow," said he,

"Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,"

The shade replied—

"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edward Allen Poe

Peek-a-boob

Illustration to Milton`s Comus (1820) by William Blake