Allegorical Portrait of a Woman — Sandro Botticelli

Cosmic Map – Bruno Munari

Portrait of John Nada — Mike Mitchell

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Nude with Book — Iosif Iser

Sleeping Woman — Tamara de Lempicka

The Master (Film Poster) — Laurent Durieux

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The Book — Edwin Dickinson

Reconstruction of the Machine from Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony

 

 “However,” the Officer said, interrupting himself, “I’m chattering, and his apparatus stands here in front of us. As you see, it consists of three parts. With the passage of time certain popular names have been developed for each of these parts. The one underneath is called the Bed, the upper one is called the Inscriber, and here in the middle, this moving part is called the Harrow.” “The Harrow?” the Traveller asked. He had not been listening with full attention.

“In the Penal Colony,” Franz Kafka.

Don Miguel de Castro, Emissary of Congo — Albert Eckhout

Book Shelf — Giuseppe Maria Crespi

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Trompe l’oeil with Studio Wall and Vanitas Still Life — Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts