The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St. John the Baptist (' The Burlington House Cartoon '), c. 1499-1500, charcoa...

  Drapery Study for an Angel , c. 1495-8, ink on paper, 21.3 x 15.9 cm, Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, UK. Skin beneath cloth, f...

  Man and Woman , 1917-19, Oil on canvas, 305 x 177 cm, National Gallery of Denmark "Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizz...

And In His Eyes I Saw Death , 1897, Oil on canvas, 188 x 137 cm, National Gallery of Denmark

Memory , 1903, marble, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek A cenotaph to lost time, the grieving figure of memory herself is lost in reverie, carv...

The Hours , 1882, Oil on canvas, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK Seven maidens, each symbolic of a period of the day, act as melancholy...

The Bed , 1893, oil on cardboard, 51.3 x 70.4 cm, Musee d'Orsay, Paris "For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometim...

Map , 1961, oil on canvas, 198.1 x 312.7 cm, MoMA, New York The idea of a map is broken apart and revealed in its absurdity - America...

Tobias and the Angel , c. 1469 Tobias and the Archangel Raphael are depicted as finely-garbed travellers, a vast landscape stretching ...

 Cupid and Psyche , c. 1789, oil on canvas, 139.8 x 168.3 cm, Courtauld Gallery, London Candlelight illuminates the corpse-like fi...

Dolly Parton , 2011 "Well I can't tell you where I'm going, I'm not sure of where I've been But I know I must ke...

 Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818, Oil on canvas, 94.8 × 74.8 cm, Kunsthalle Hamburg "The painter should paint not only ...

I cannot yet say which direction this blog will go in, or even if it will survive its first postings (many blogs don't and Blogger be...

Dollar Sign , 1981, synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen inks on canvas, 228.6 x 177.8 cm, Private Collection "Money doesn...

Suspense , 1894, oil on canvas, 78 x 98.5 cm, Private Collection A  faded reproduction of this image sat on the windowsill at the en...

The Trapper’s Bride , 1850, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha "I saw the marriage of the trapper in the ope...

Tree of 12 Metres, 1980-2, wood (American larch), 600 x 50 x 50cm, Tate Modern Out of processed planks of timber the ancient technique...

A Line Made by Walking , 1967, photograph, 38 x 32 cm The artist paces an empty, nondescript field in the west of England for an indete...

Julia Jackson , 1867,  albumen print, 30 x 24.6 cm Julia Margaret Cameron’s expert use of light and shadow is ground-breaking. I...

Mary Mother , c. 1866,  albumen print, 34.9 x 27.1 cm It is said that all photographs are in a way self-portraits and there is certainl...

The Echo , 1868,  albumen print, 27 x 22.6 cm “Photographs state the innocence, the vulnerability of lives heading towards their own d...

The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty , 1866,  albumen print, 36.5 x 28.6 cm Julia Margaret Cameron’s aim was “to ennoble photography and t...

The Kiss of Peace , 1869,  albumen print,  34.3 x 27.7 cm Julia Margaret Cameron's work can be seen as the first example in the his...

Iago, Study from an Italian , 1867, Albumen print Portraying a man with tenderness and compassion as opposed to lifting ...

  Thomas Carlyle , 1867,  albumen print, 33.7 x 24.5 cm “From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has ...

Sir John Herschel , 1867,  albumen print,  34.9 x 26.1 cm “I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longi...

Beyond Man's Footsteps , exhibited 1894, oil on canvas, 119 x 185 cm, Tate Britain A lone polar bear peers toward the setting or ri...

Threshold to the Kingdom , 2000, (still), installation, video: 11min 12sec, Tate Britain In a grand side-room, reminiscent of a chapel,...

David with the Head of Goliath , 1609-10, oil on canvas, 125 × 101 cm, Galleria Borghese In one of Caravaggio's last works before h...

St. Jerome , 1605-06, oil on canvas, 112 × 157 cm, Galleria Borghese In the act of writing St. Jerome gives himself completely to his ...