The Woodpeckers, Crows, and Hawks Screamed Furiously — Maurice Sendak

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From Maurice Sendak’s retelling of Wilhelm Grimm’s Dear Mili.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s manuscript map of Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor

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From the forthcoming The Art of the Lord of the Rings, which collects Tolkiens’s preparatory drawings for his epic. Via/more at Wired.

Ezra Pound — Wyndham Lewis

A Mouse as a Monk — Shibata Zeshin

Carnival in Athens — Nikolaos Gyzis

Detail from The Seven Sacraments — Rogier van der Weyden

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Rocky Landscape in the Elbsandsteingebirge — Caspar David Friedrich

Night — Arnold Böcklin

The Pleiades — Elihu Vedder

From Things from the Flood — Simon Stålenhag

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Boreas — John William Waterhouse

Welcome to the C+C World — Kojiro Ankan Takakuwa

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Portrait of a Woman — Lucas Cranach the Elder

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