Explore Selected Paintings

“Jan Matejko’s brooding court jester seated in heavy despair as royal revelers dance, oblivious to the tragic loss of Smolensk.”

“Jean-Léon Gérôme's definitive vision of Imperial Rome: a victorious gladiator awaiting the bloodthirsty verdict of the Colosseum.”

“Thomas Cole's apocalyptic allegory of the sack and ruinous collapse of an imperial Roman-inspired civilization.”

“Thomas Couture's monumental indictment of imperial Roman excess: a bacchanal unfolding beneath the stern marble gaze of republic ancestors.”

“Edward John Poynter’s midnight premonition before Caesar’s fatal Senate procession: Calpurnia points trembling to a blazing comet.”

“Vincenzo Camuccini’s theatrical Neoclassical frieze: senators swarm Julius Caesar beneath the marble gaze of Pompey’s statue.”

“Karl von Piloty’s taut, cold-eyed historical drama inside the Senate chamber at the exact instant Brutus and the conspirators close in.”

“Charles Le Brun’s colossal triumphal pageant of Alexander the Great riding in a golden chariot drawn by elephants into Babylon.”

“John Martin’s sublime infernal architecture: Satan marshaling fallen legions before the molten capitol of Hell from Milton's Paradise Lost.”

“John Martin’s cosmic cataclysm: entire mountains splitting apart and cities tumbling into a crimson abyss under thunderous judgment.”

“John Martin’s hypnotic Babylonian spectacle: blazing prophetic script searing across colossal halls beneath the silhouette of Babel.”

“Philippe Tanneur's harrowing romantic tempest: shattered timber and frail mortal survivors dwarfed by mountainous Black Sea breakers.”

“Will Longstaff’s haunting nocturnal vision of spectral fallen soldiers marching past the illuminated Canadian Vimy Memorial.”

“William Daniell's dramatic maritime triumph of human engineering withstanding the colossal fury of the Atlantic.”

“Louis Daguerre's hypnotic dioramic chiaroscuro: moonlight flooding through decaying Gothic arches in Edinburgh.”

“John Charles Dollman’s chilling allegory of spiritual desolation: a shrouded spectral wraith stalked by ravenous wolves across the snow.”

“Teodoro Wolf-Ferrari's brooding nocturnal harmony: shadowy silhouettes and smoldering amber horizon under a silent sky.”

“Howard Russell Butler’s luminous record of the Aurora Borealis surging over the rocky Maine coastline.”

“Ivan Aivazovsky's moonlit Black Sea nocturnal: foaming waves crashing against medieval Crimean stone towers.”

“François-Auguste Biard’s arctic sublime: desolate glaciers and stranded explorers under the pale midnight sun of Spitsbergen.”

“Tom Lovell's cinematic masterwork of domestic suspense: a smoking revolver, a perforated door, and open narrative dread.”

“Ivan Aivazovsky's cosmic Genesis: divine light tearing through primordial dark ocean storm clouds.”

“Mihály Zichy’s passionate nocturnal embrace between a winged transcendent demon and a mortal maiden.”

“Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti's nocturnal demonic coven circling the legendary ancient walnut tree of Benevento.”

“Jean Delville's symbolist occult icon of sinister allure, coiled serpents, and transcendent esoteric gaze.”

“Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s primeval Nordic communion: two lovers silhouetted in sacred intimacy amidst the Finnish wilderness.”

“Ippolito Caffi’s eerie astronomical eclipse plunging the Venetian lagoon and Fondamenta Nove into midday twilight.”

“Gustave Doré’s thunderous biblical vision: an incandescent angel of the Lord barring the rocky path with drawn flaming sword.”

“Carl Gustav Carus's existential chiaroscuro: Faust hunched over his desk, consumed by the shadows of arcane limitation.”