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• The Three Faces of Adam (The Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence byTitian)
• Absurdism (Sisyphus byFranz Stuck)
• Administrivia.Just A Face And A Caption (3rd, Italian Sacred Heart byHeiliges Abendmahl Zabateri)
• Afterlife Tropes (The Ramparts of God's House byJohn Melhuish Strudwick)
• The All-American Boy (Building a Treehouse byHenry Hintermeister)
• Allegorical Character (Painting ofGodzilla byNoriyoshi Ohrai)
• Alternate Landmark History (Easter Island byChris Foss)
• Amazing Technicolor Index (Rythme, Joie de vivre byRobert Delaunay)
• Anachronistic Animal (Portrait of the dog Busse byDavid Klöcker Ehrenstrahl)
• Ancient Astronauts (byBoros Attila)
• Ancient Rome (Caracalla and Geta by SirLawrence Alma-Tadema)
• Angel Unaware (Angel at the Door byEleanor Fortescue-Brickdale)
• Animated Tattoo (byLauren K Cannon)
• Arcadia (A Childhood Idyll byWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau)
• Archangel Gabriel (Annunciation byAnton Raphael Mengs)
• Archangel Michael (The Archangel Michael and the Rebel Angels byGiuseppe Cesari)
• The Ark of the Covenant (Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, James Tissot)
• The Armies of Heaven
• Art Imitates Art (top half:The First Thanksgiving 1621 byJean Leon Gerome Ferris)
• Artistic License – Physics (Waterfall byM.C. Escher)
• At the Opera Tonight (At the Opera byMary Cassat)
• Awesome Art (The Storm on the Sea of Galilee byRembrandt)
• Awesome Art.Video Games (left-column:Fantastic Series byZdzisław Beksiński)
• Awesome.Classical Mythology (Hercules and the Nemean Lion byPeter Paul Rubens)
• Baby and Dog Bond (Sleeping Child Guarded by a Dog by Michel Honore Boneau)
• Back from the Dead (The Raising of Lazarus byRembrandt)
• Bar Brawl (A Barroom Brawl byAnton Otto Fischer)
• The Bard (A Tale from the Decameron byJohn William Waterhouse)
• Barrier Maiden (Atlas byBoris Vallejo)
• Bizarrchitecture (Relativity byM.C. Escher)
• Black Index, White Index (Mechano Faktur byHenryk Berlewi)
• The Blind Leading the Blind (The Parable of the Blind byPieter Bruegel the Elder)
• Blue Blood (Call to Arms byEdmund Blair Leighton)
• Blue Tropes (I never dared to dream byBen Shahn)
• Bluebird of Happiness (Maiden Song byEmma Florence Harrison)
• Body Language (Unconsolable Grief byIvan Nikolaevich Kramskoi)
• Bookworm (The Bookworm byCarl Spitzweg)
• Boulder Bludgeon (Cain Kills Abel byGiacomo Palma the Younger)
• Breaking and Bloodsucking (Croglin Vampire byLes Edwards)
• The Burlesque of Venus (top third:The Birth of Venus bySandro Botticelli)
• Burn the Witch! (from The Lost Abbeyswitch's wit beer, label art bySean Dominguez)
• Burning the Ships (Hernan Cortes scuttling his fleet off the Veracruz coast, attributed toMiguel Gonzalez)
• Byronic Hero (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog byCaspar David Friedrich)
• The Cabin Boy (Cabin Boy byThomas Rowlandson)
• Cain and Abel (detail fromThe Ghent Altarpiece by brothersHubert and Jan van Eyck)
• Call That a Formation? (bottom half:300 Spartan Warriors byRobert Basham)
• Capitalism Is Bad (Anti-Capitalist Propaganda by Adam Harvey)
• The Captivity Narrative (The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians byCharles Ferdinand Wimar)
• Card Sharp (The Cardsharps byCaravaggio)
• Cattle Drive (Cattle Crossing byJan Hendrik Scheltema)
• The Cavalier Years (The Wounded Cavalier byWilliam Shakespeare Burton)
• Cavalry Officer (Hussar byJan van Chelminski)
• Celestial Paragons and Archangels (The Seven Archangels in Adoration of the Trinity byFrederico Zuccari)
• The Chain of Harm (Anger Transference byRichard Sargent)
• Chandler's Law (edit ofJesus at the Door byDel Parson)
• Chariot Race (byRubik Kocharian)
• The Charmer (The Spider and the Fly byEugen de Blaas)
• Chiaroscuro (The Denial of St. Peter byGerrit van Honthorst)
• Child Eater (Saturn Devouring One of His Children byPeter Paul Rubens)
• Child Prodigy (Mozart byThaddäus Helbling)
• A Child Shall Lead Them (Vox Populi orA Little Prince Likely in Time to Bless a Royal Throne byEdmund Blair Leighton)
• Children Are Innocent (Garden of Angels byLaurie Snow Hein)
• Chivalric Romance (The Past byThomas Cole)
• Chokepoint Geography (300 Spartans on Thursdays byLouis S Glanzman)
• Christmas in July (Sun, Surf and Santa byTom Browning)
• Circassian Beauty (A Circassian Girl byHenry Hall Pickersgill)
• Circuit Judge (Circuit Judge byOlaf Seltzer)
• The City (Der Besuch des Landesvaters/The Visit of the Country Father byCarl Spitzweg)
• Classical Music (collage)
• Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth
• Cold Cash
• Color-Coded Patrician (Mosaic of Emperor Justinian and his court, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, circa 547 AD.)
• ComicBook.Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Holiday in Duckburg byCarl Barks)
• Confessional (La Confessione byGiuseppe Molteni)
• The Conqueror (Mehmed II Entering Constantinople byFausto Zonaro)
• Contrapposto Pose: (Bottom-left:Leda and the Swan byLeonardo da Vinci)
• Cosmic Egg (Cosmic Egg Theory byCarol Phillipson)
• Crazy Jealous Guy (Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca byJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
• Creator.Hieronymus Bosch (TheHell panel ofThe Garden of Earthly Delights byHieronymus Bosch)
• Creator.Lawrence Alma Tadema (A Coign of Vantage by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
• Creator.Norman Rockwell (Triple Self-Portrait byNorman Rockwell)
• Creator.Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
• Creator.Sandro Botticelli (Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli)
• Creator.Washington Irving (Portrait of Washington Irving by John Wesley Jarvis)
• Creepy Changing Painting (Mona Lisa,La Gioconda orLa Joconde, orPortrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo byLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci)
• Crucial Cross (The Triumph of Christianity Over Paganism byGustave Doré)
• Currency Tropes (The Moneylender and His Wife byQuentin Massys)
• The Cycle of Empires (top-left:Battle Scene with a Roman Army Besieging a Large City byJuan De La Corte; bottom:The Course of Empire byThomas Cole)
• Dainty Little Ballet Dancers (Two Dancers on a Stage byEdgar Degas)
• Damsel Errant (Una and the Red Cross Knight byGeorge Frederic Watts)
• Dances and Balls (The Dance in Cupid's Alley byArthur Rackham)
• Darkness and Shadows Tropes (Night Shadows byEdward Hopper)
• Dead Artists Are Better (The Skeleton Painter byJames Ensor)
• Death and the Maiden (Death and the Maiden byAdolf Hering)
• Death by Childbirth (The Birth of Benjamin and the Death of Rachel byDomenico Chiesura)
• Death by Irony
• Death Is Dramatic (Lamentation over the Dead Christ bySandro Botticelli)
• Death Tropes (Witness My Act and Seal byEdmund Blair Leighton)
• Demonic Possession (St Francis Borja at the Deathbed of an Impenitent byFrancisco de Goya)
• Den of Iniquity (A Rake's Progress byWilliam Hogarth)
• Dining in the Buff (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe byÉdouard Manet)
• Dirty Old Monk (A Monk and a Nun byCornelis van Haarlem)
• Discord Tropes (War (The First Discord) byDe Scott Evans)
• Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe (The Red Beret (Dog) byDan Craig)
• Divine Date (Cupid and Psyche byBenjamin West)
• Divine Right of Kings (Louis XIV Dressed In Roman Style byPierre Mignard)
• Don't Fear the Reaper (Angel of Death byEvelyn De Morgan)
• The Dragonslayer (St. George and the Dragon byGirard Master)
• Dramatic Sit-Down (Depressed Man byVincent Willem van Gogh)
• Dream Weaver (Bubble Blower byJosephine Wall)
• Droit du Seigneur (Le Droit du Seigneur byVasily Polenov)
• Drums of War (Spirit of '76, Archibald Willard)
• The Drunken Sailor (wood engraving, American, late 19^th century)
• Eagleland (From Concord to Tranquility byNorman Rockwell)
• Earth Mother (Abundantia byPeter Paul Rubens)
• Eerie Anatomy Model
• Eerily Out-of-Place Object (Big Ben byMarksart)
• Elders (The Eve of Peace byGeorge Frederic Watts)
• Electronic Telepathy (Silent Warrior bySam R Kennedy)
• Embarrassing Tattoo (The Tattoo Artist byNorman Rockwell)
• The Emperor (Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne byJean Auguste Dominique Ingres)
• English Rose (Girl With Lilac byAlber Henry Collings)
• Envy and Jealousy Tropes (Envy, Hatred and Malice byBriton Rivière)
• Everybody Loves Zeus (top half:Jupiter and Thetis byJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
• Evil Lawyer Joke (Counsel Approaching Bench byJef Leedy)
• Eye Motifs (Jellyfish Eyes byTakashi Murakami)
• Faerie Court (Arrival of the King and Queen of Fairyland byE Stuart Hardy)
• Fainting (A Delightful Waltz byJohn Brandard)
• Family Tropes (The Royal Family in 1846 byFranz Xaver Winterhalter)
• Fanservice with a Smile (Diner Waitress orDiner Girl byGreg Hildebrandt)
• Finish Him! (Pollice Verso byJean-Léon Gérôme)
• First Kiss ([[Psyche and Cupid (Bouguereau) Cupid and Psyche as Children byWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau)
• Fixing the Game (Dogs Playing Poker – Waterloo byCassius Marcellus Coolidge)
• Fleur-de-lis (Maria de' Medici (1573-1642), Queen of France since 1600 byFrans Pourbus the Younger)
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven (Heaven's Gate byDannyHahlbohm)
• Flying Dutchman (The Flying Dutchman byHoward Pyle)
• Foregone Conclusion (Titanic byGordon Johnson)
• Forging Scene (The Forge of Vulcan byLuca Giordano)
• Forgiveness (The Return of the Prodigal Son orLe retour de l'enfant prodigue byJames Tissot)
• Forty-Niner (Colorado Gold Rush 1859 byAlfredo Rodríguez)
• Franchise.Donald Duck (Lavender and Old Lace byCarl Barks)
• Friendship Tropes (Horae Serenae bySir Edward John Poynter)
• Fruit and Vegetable Tropes (Still Life with Strawberries byAdrian Coorte)
• Full-Frontal Assault (byAngus Mc Bride)
• The Gambling Addict (The Hazard Room byThomas Rowlandson)
• Garden of Love (Herzengeheimnis byLudwig Knoefel)
• Gender-Blending Tropes (Louis Joseph Xavier byMarc Nattier)
• Ghibli Hills (The Glen byMaxfield Parrish)
• Giant Squid (byPierre Dénys de Montfort)
• God (The Four and Twenty Elders Casting Their Crowns Before the Divine Throne byWilliam Blake)
• God Couple (Zeus and Hera, inspired byThe Presentation of the Portrait [detail] from theMarie de' Medici Cycle byPeter Paul Rubens)
• God in Human Form (Jesus & Krishna byEDDANIMA)
• God Is Good (The Creation of the Animals byRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
• Good Samaritan (The Good Samaritan byJoseph Brickey)
• Good Wings, Evil Wings (variation onThe Archangel Michael byGuido Reni)
• Gorgeous Greek (Helen of Troy byEvelyn de Morgan)
• Götterdämmerung (Valhalla in Flames byMax Brückner)
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple (detail fromLady White Todd by Philip Alexius de László)
• Grandpa God (Creation of Adam byMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
• Gray Tropes (Early Summer byAn Gyeon)
• Green Tropes (The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool byClaude Monet)
• Guardian Angel (Guardian Angel and Children Crossing Bridge byLindberg Heilige Schutzengel)
• Gulliver Tie-Down (Gulliver in Lilliput byChris Beatrice)
• Hanover-Stuart Wars (The Battle of Culloden byDavid Morier, 1746)
• Happiness Tropes (A Birthday byEmma Florence Harrison)
• Heat Wave (Heat Wave byCarl Barks)
• Heaven (Ascension of Christ byDosso Dossi)
• Heaven Above (The Temptation of Christ by the Devil byFélix Joseph Barrias)
• The Hermit (variation on Einsiedels Abendlied / Christoph von Grimmelshausen byAdria Ludwig Richter)
• High-Class Fan (Miss F byErnest Lee Major)
• High-Class Harpsichord (Das Duett byArturo Ricci)
• The High Queen (Queen Victoria byGeorge Hayter)
• Hollywood Drowning (Drowning Girl byRoy Lichtenstein)
• Holy Burns Evil (Dracula: The Cross #69 byGreg Hildebrandt)
• The Holy Grail ("The Last Supper", byLeonardo da Vinci; top left)
• Horned Humanoid (Horned God's Daughter by *michalivan)
• Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Four Horsemen of Apocalypse byViktor Vasnetsov)
• Hula and Luaus (Aloha byKerne Erickson)
• Humans Are Bastards (Dante and Virgil in Hell byWilliam Bouguereau)
• I Kiss Your Hand (Ask Me No More by SirLawrence Alma-Tadema)
• Impressionism (left-to-right, top-to-bottom:Impression, Sunrise byClaude Monet,Bal du moulin de la Galette byPierre Auguste Renoir,La Recolte des Foins, Eragny byCamille Pissarro,Basket of Apples byPaul Cezanne,The Star byEdgar Degas,Tea byBerthe Morisot)
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness (The Temptation of Christ byAry Scheffer)
• An Index Orange (Combing the Hair byEdgar Degas)
• Indian Maiden (Peace byLee Bogle)
• Industrial Ghetto (Sheffield, England, 1884)
• The Ingenue (The Ingenue byPierre Auguste Renoir)
• Injury Tropes (The Order of Release bySir John Everett Milais)
• Inugami (Bakemono no e)
• It Came from the Fridge (Expired byJessica Lanan)
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One (Christ Carrying the Cross byJacopo Robusti Tintoretto)
• Judgement of Paris (The Judgment of Paris byJacques Wagrez)
• Judgement of the Dead: (The Last Judgement byViktor Vasnetsov)
• Judgment of Solomon (Fresco in Pilgrimage church of Frauenberg, Austria)
• Just for Fun.Anaprotestantism (1^st image:The Battle of Vienna, after 1683 byPauwel Casteels)
• Just for Fun.Anaprotestantism (2^nd image:Christ & Young Women, Mormon Art)
• Knight Errant (The White Knight byWalter Crane)
• Knighting (The Accolade byEdmund Blair Leighton)
• Lady and Knight (A Knight and His Lady byWilliam G Mackenzie)
• The Lady of Shalott (The Lady of Shalott (Waterhouse))
• The Lady's Favour (God Speed! byEdmund Blair Leighton)
• Last Kiss (The Meeting on Turret Stairs byFrederick William Burton)
• "Leave Your Quest" Test (Ulysse et Calypso byNC Wyeth)
• Legion of Lost Souls (byPeter Dennis)
• Let's Duet (Duet byHendrick Jansz ter Brugghen)
• Literature.A Christmas Carol (A Christmas Carol byDean Morrissey)
• Literature.Kenilworth (Amy Robsart and the Earl or Leicester byRichard Parkes Bonington)
• Literature.Quo Vadis (Domine quo vadis? byAnnibale Carracci)
• Literature.Rainbow Bridge (Rainbow Bridge byGinger Jamerson)
• Literature.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane byJohn Quidor)
• Lonely Funeral (The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner bySir Edwin Henry Landseer)
• Looks Like Jesus (Portrait of King Charles I, National Portrait Gallery, unknown artist)
• Love Goddess (Eros byJacques Clément Wagrez)
• Love Imbues Life (Pygmalion and Galatea byJean-Léon Gérôme)
• Lover and Beloved (David och Saul byJulius Kronberg)
• Loyal Animal Companion (Una and the Lion byBriton Rivière)
• Lust (The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust by Gail Potocki)
• Macho Masochism (Mucius Scaevola Before Porsenna byPeter Paul Rubens and van Dyck)
• Madonna Archetype (Charity byWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau)
• Magic Carpet (Riding a Flying Carpet byViktor Vasnetsov)
• Magical Barefooter (The Magic Circle byJohn William Waterhouse)
• The Man Is Sticking It to the Man (Destroy Capitalism byBanksy)
• Masquerade Ball (The masked ball byGeorges Jules Victor Clairin)
• Matron Chaperone (A Stolen Interview byEdmund Blair Leighton)
• Meaningful Funeral (Funeral March byCharles Carol Coleman)
• Medicine Show (The Snake Oil Salesman byMorgan Weistling)
• Midnight Snack (Midnight Snack byCF Payne)
• Mind Screw (Time Transfixed orLa Durée poignardée byRené Magritte)
• Moral Dilemma (Adam and Eve byLucas Cranach the Elder)
• Moses in the Bulrushes (Båden med Kong Skjold byHerman Siegumfeldt)
• The Muse (Artist and Muse byJacek Malczewski)
• Music.Johann Sebastian Bach (Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach byElias Gottlob Haussmann
• Music.Ludwig Van Beethoven (Portrait Beethovens mit der Partitur zur Missa Solemnis byJoseph Karl Stieler)
• Music Soothes the Savage Beast (Orpheus byTadeusz Styka)
• Music Tropes (The Music of a Bygone Age byJohn Melhuish Strudwick)
• Music.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart byBarbara Krafft)
• Mystery Cult (Artistic reconstruction by Alan Sorrell for the Museum of London)
• Myth.Celtic Mythology (The Children of Lir byJim Fitzpatrick)
• Myth.Classical Mythology (The Twelve Olympians byNicolas-André Monsiau)
• Myth.King Arthur (King Arthur byCharles Ernest Butler)
• Myth.Lilith (Lilith byJohn Collier)
• Myth.Norse Mythology (Thor's Fight with the Giants byMårten Eskil Winge)
• Myth.Paul Bunyan (Dug the Grand Canyon When He Dragged His Axe Behind Him byRon Borresen)
• Myth.Saint George (St. George Killing the Dragon byBernat Martorell)
• Myth.The Lady of the Lake (Lady of the Lake byDiana Van Damme)
• Narcissist (Echo and Narcissus byJohn William Waterhouse)
• "Nighthawks" Shot (top half:Nighthawks byEdward Hopper)
• NightmareFuel.Art (The Premature Burial, byAntoine Wiertz)
• NightmareFuel.Classical Mythology (Saturn Devouring His Son byFrancisco de Goya)
• NightmareFuel.Mythology And Folklore (Divine Insect from the Extermination of Evil)
• Nobility Hennin (bottom-left: "Young Woman with a Pink" by Hans Memling)
• Noble Savage (Painting of Native American byNC Wyeth)
• Nurarihyon (top left:Hyakkai Zukan)
• Offered the Crown (Battle of Guadalete bySalvador Martinez Cubells)
• Older Than Dirt (Magdalenian painting in Lascaux Cave, c. 17,000 BCE)
• Older Than Feudalism (Ancient Roman Floor mosaic atDougga in Tunisia, 3rd century AD)
• Older Than Steam (Der Gaukler byHieronymus Bosch)
• Open Shirt Taunt (The Execution of Marshal Ney byÉdouard Armand Dumaresq)
• The Ophelia (Ophelia byPascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan Bouveret)
• Oral Tradition (Grandfather Telling a Story byAlbrecht Anker)
• Orientalism (A Royal Palace in Morocco byBenjamin Jean Joseph Constant)
• OurAngelsAreDifferent.The Bible (Archangel Michael byDarko Topalski)
• Our Sirens Are Different (top right) (The Siren byJohn William Waterhouse)
• Out-of-Character Moment (Expulsion of the Money-Changers from the Temple by Creator}}/Giotto di Bondone}})
• Outliving One's Offspring (Death of the Pharaoh's First-Born Son by SirLawrence Alma-Tadema)
• Paint the Index Red (Untitled (Space Fantasy) byDennis Ray Blalock)
• Painters (Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood byJohn Singer Sargent)
• Paintings (Vincent van Gogh palette)
• Paper-Thin Disguise (Little Red Riding Hood byScott Gustafson)
• Parasol of Prettiness (Oriental Girl with Parasol byMarty Noble)
• Pardo Push (Pardo's Push bySW Ferguson)
• The Parent Trope (Queen Blanka byAlbert Edelfelt)
• Past Experience Nightmare (Ivan the Terrible and the Souls of His Victims byMikhail Clodt)
• Patron Saint (Wilton Diptych [left panel], unknown artist, original in the National Gallery, London)
• Picaresque (El Lazarillo de Tormes byFrancisco Goya)
• Pimped-Out Dress (Empress Elisabeth of Austria byFranz Xaver Winterhalter)
• Pimped-Out Dress.Real Life (Portrait of Elizabeth of Austria, Queen consort of Charles IX of France byJoris van der Straeten [Georges van der Straeten, Jorge de la Rúa or Gregorio de Gant])
• Pink Tropes: (The Roses of Heliogabalus (detail) byLawrence Alma-Tadema)
• The Pioneer (I Shall Never Forget the Sight... byNC Wyeth)
• Pirate (Captain Sam Bellamy and the Whydah byDon Maitz)
• Pirate Tropes (Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard, 1718 byJean Leon Gerome Ferris (1920))
• Pocket Dimension (art byDan LuVisi)
• Pooled Funds (Sport of Tycoons byCarl Barks)
• Postmodernism (La Trahison des images byRené Magritte)
• Pre-Climax Climax (When the World Ends byAmanda Rene Bussell)
• Princely Tropes (top-left)
• Proper Lady (A Lady with a Parasol Showing How to Make a Strawberry Barrel byPercy Tarrant)
• Prospector (The Old Prospector byAlfredo Rodríguez)
• Public Domain Artifact (bottom-right:The Golden Fleece Dream byWilliam Prosser)
• Purple is the New Trope (Petunias byGeorgia O'Keeffe)
• Putto (top:The Birth of Venus byAlexandre Cabanel; middle:Charity byWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau; bottom:Putti Making Music byFrançois Boucher)
• Pygmalion Plot (Pygmalion and Galatea byJean-Léon Gérôme)
• Racing the Train (Porsche/Mille Miglia byJames Dugdale)
• Rain Dance (Rain Dance byTom Phillips)
• Rasputinian Death ("In the middle of the Indian forest, a man waits for the train" byAchille Beltrame)
• "Reading Is Cool" Aesop (Boy Reading Adventure Story byNorman Rockwell)
• Reclaimed by Nature (The Course of Empire: Desolation byThomas Cole)
• Reclining Venus (top third:Sleeping Venus byGiorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; middle third:The Nude Maja byFrancisco de Goya; bottom third:Odalisque byJules Joseph Lefebvre)
• Red Index, Blue Index (Amaryllis byPiet Mondrian)
• Red Index, Green Index (Schokko with Red Hat byAlexej Jawlensky)
• Religious Robot (bySunflowerman)
• Rescued from the Underworld (Orpheus Tries to Rescue His Wife Eurydice from the Underworld But He Mustn't Look Back as They Go byBriout)
• Resurrection Tropes (The Resurrection byCarl Heinrich Bloch)
• Revenge (Retribution byEdward Armitage)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified (Liberty Leading the People byFerdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix)
• Revolving Door Revolution (byPawel Kuczynski)
• Rogue Juror (The Jury Room byNorman Rockwell)
• Romanticism Versus Enlightenment (1^st image:Paganini byFerdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix)
• Rouge Angles of Satin (top half)
• Royally Screwed Up (König Karl II. von Spanien (1661-1700) byJuan Carreño de Miranda)
• Royalty and Nobility Tropes (Portrait of Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811-1890), Queen consort of Prussia byFranz Xaver Winterhalter)
• Rule of Symbolism (Vanitas byPieter Claesz)
• Ruling Couple (Catholic Monarchs Administering Justice, byVictor Manzano y Mejorada)
• Sad Clown (Old Sadface, Craft Master paint-by-number painting)
• Sadness Tropes (All Souls' Day byWilliam Bouguereau)
• Samba (Roda de Samba byCarybé)
• The Savage Indian (The Death of JaneMcCrea byJohn Vanderlyn)
• Scullery Maid (A Scully Maid Preparing a Chicken byWilliem Joseph Laquy)
• Seasonal Baggage (The Seasons (1897) byAlphonse Mucha)
• Seasonal Index (Birds and Flowers of Four Seasons byAraki Jippo)
• Second Coming (The Second Coming byHarry Anderson)
• Seppuku (Ukiyo-e woodblock print byKunikazu Utagawa)
• Serenade Your Lover (The Serenade byFederico Andreotti)
• Servant Tropes (Dressing the Queen byWarwick Goble)
• Sexbot (art byHajime Sorayama)
• Shoe Shine, Mister? (Shoeshine Boy byKarl Witkowski)
• Shot at Dawn (The Third Of May 1808 byFrancisco de Goya)
• Sibling Rivalry (She's My Girl byJ.C. Leyendecker)
• Siren Song (Odysseus and the Sirens byAlexander Bruckmann)
• Sirens Are Mermaids (Siren's Lament byAnne Stokes)
• Sistine Steal (The Immaculate Jim byDave Hulteen)
• Slain in Their Sleep (Jael and Sisera byJames Northcote)
• Smile Tropes (Brita and I byCarl Larssen)
• Snake Oil Salesman (Rural America: Traveling Salesman of "Cure-All" Tonic, unknown artist, 1940s advert; original in the Peter Newark American Pictures)
• Social Ornithopod (Iguanodon Herd byDouglas Henderson)
• Socialist Realism (The First Tractor byVladimir Krikhatsky)
• Soiled City on a Hill (The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah byJohn Martin)
• Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying (Elephant byJacob van Maerlant)
• Son of Trope, Daughter of Index (Penelope Unravelling Her Web by Lamp Light, byJoseph Wright of Derby)
• Species-Specific Afterlife (All Dogs Go to Heaven 4 byJim Warren)
• Spooky Painting (The Hands Resist Him byBill Stoneham)
• Standing Between the Enemies (The Intervention of the Sabine Women byJacques-Louis David)
• Star-Crossed Lovers (tanabata4 byYuko Hamasaki)
• Starving Artist (The Poor Poet byCarl Spitzweg)
• Steel Mill (From Fra Burmeister og Wain's Iron Foundry by P.S. Krøyer)
• A Storm Is Coming (The Storm orL'Orage byWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau)
• Street Urchin (Tokai byRafiqun Nabi)
• The Strongman (Louis Cyr, Strongest Man on Earth, 1898 vintage poster)
• Suave Sabre (The Charging Chasseur byTheodore Gericault)
• Summoning Ritual (Tiresias Appears to Ulysses During the Sacrificin byHenry Fuseli)
• Supernatural Scandinavia (The Troll at Karl Johan Street by Theodor Kittelsen)
• Surrealism (Indefinite Divisibility byYves Tanguy)
• Survivor Guilt (Reflections byLee Teeter)
• Sword of Damocles (The Sword of Damocles byRichard Westall)
• Symbolic Wings (Husaria's Attack byAleksander Orłowski)
• Tank Goodness (Landkreuzer P-1000 Ratte byIvan Troitsky)
• Tearful Smile (Crying Girl byRoy Lichtenstein)
• The Teetotaler (No! byVictor Ivanovich Govorkov)
• Theatre.Macbeth (Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, byJohn Singer Sargent)
• Theatre.The Massacre At Paris (Henri III poussant du pied le cadavre du duc de Guise byCharles Durupt)
• Theatre.The Recruiting Officer (Robert Wilks as Captain Plume from George Farquhar's 'The Recruiting Officer', artist unknown)
• Theatre.Troilus And Cressida (Troilus and Cressida byEdward Henry Corbould)
• Theatre.Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Two Gentlemen of Verona byAlfred Elmore)
• Things That Go "Bump" in the Night (Bogeyman byMichael Whelan)
• This Index Is Brown (Brown Still Life byStuart Davis)
• Thousand-Yard Stare (The 2000 Yard Stare byThomas Lea)
• Threads of Fate (A Golden Thread byJohn Melhuish Strudwick)
• Time Crash (Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion bySalvador Dalí)
• Time Tropes (Three Curious Cats byArthur Heyer)
• Top God (The Olympus byLuigi Sabatelli)
• Town with a Dark Secret (byNeko Pilarcik)
• Tragic Bromance (Orvar-Odd and Hjalmar Bid Each Other Farewell byMårten Eskil Winge)
• Trojan Horse (Le Cheval de Troie byHenri Paul Motte)
• Troll (Cybertroll byLemon Art)
• TropeCo.Vulval Flora (left;Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow by Georgia O'Keeffe)
• Tropes in White (Sita and Sarita byCecilia Beaux)
• Tropes of Innocence (Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose byJohn Singer Sargent)
• Truth in Television (left half) (Portrait of Marie Leszczynska by Charles-André van Loo)
• Umibōzu (top left,Bakemono no e; top right, "Hitotsume-no-Ōbōzu"; bottom left, "Umibōzu Ink Drawing"; bottom right, "Umibōzu" by Shigeru Mizuki)
• Underwater Base (fromThe Venus Project)
• Underwater City (Underwater Cities byKenneth Fagg)
• Unicorns Prefer Virgins (A Virgin with a Unicorn, byDomenico Zampieri)
• UsefulNotes.Alchemy (Der Alchemist byJoseph Leopold Ratinckx)
• UsefulNotes.Alexander the Great (Alexander and Porus byCharles Le Brun)
• UsefulNotes.Barbary Coast Wars (Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the Harbor of Tripoli byEdward Moran, 1897)
• UsefulNotes.Battle Of Lepanto (The Battle of Lepanto (7th October 1571), Italian School)
• UsefulNotes.Christmas in America (Merry Christmas, Grandma byNorman Rockwell)
• UsefulNotes.Cossacks (Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire byIlya Repin)
• UsefulNotes.French Wars Of Religion (Henri IV à la bataille d'Arques, 21 septembre 1589, artist unknown)
• UsefulNotes.Germanic Wars (Battle of the Teutoburg Forest - Furor Teutonicus byPaja Jovanović, 1889)
• UsefulNotes.Indian Rebellion (Lieutenant William Alexander Kerr, 24th Bombay Native Infantry, winning the Victoria Cross near Kolapore, July 1857 byChevalier Louis William Desanges, circa 1859)
• UsefulNotes.Ireland (2^nd image: [Brian Cowen nude] byConor Casby)
• UsefulNotes.Jesus
• UsefulNotes.Joan of Arc (Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII byJean Auguste Dominique Ingres)
• UsefulNotes.Napoleon Bonaparte (The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries byJacques-Louis David)
• UsefulNotes.Orthodox Christianity (Jesus Christ Pantocrator [detail from deesis mosaic] from Hagia Sophia)
• UsefulNotes.Paul Revere (Portrait of Paul Revere byJohn Singleton Copley)
• UsefulNotes.Richard The Lionheart (Richard I the Lionheart, King of England by Merry-Joseph Blondel)
• UsefulNotes.Sapphism (Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene bySimeon Solomon)
• UsefulNotes.Siege Of Vienna (The Turkish Siege of Vienna, unknown artist, original in the Vienna Museum)
• UsefulNotes.Stock Dinosaurs Mammals And Protomammals (untitled paleoart byJames Havens)
• UsefulNotes.Thanksgiving Day (Freedom from Want byNorman Rockwell)
• UsefulNotes.The Chincha Islands War (An artist's depiction of the battle of Callao, artist unknown, 1867)
• UsefulNotes.The Crusades (Procession of Crusaders Around Jerusalem byJean Victor Schnetz)
• UsefulNotes.The Delaware (Penn's Treaty with the Indians byBenjamin West)
• UsefulNotes.The French Revolution (Storming of the Bastille and Arrest of the Governor M. de Launay, July 14, 1789., Museum of the History of France, unknown artist)
• UsefulNotes.The Hundred Years War (Battle of Castillon byCharles Philippe Lariviere)
• UsefulNotes.The Knights Hospitallers (Portrait of Knight of Malta byMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)
• UsefulNotes.The Pope (St. Lawrence Receiving the Treasures of the Church from St. Sixtus [detail] byFra Angelico)
• UsefulNotes.The Protestant Reformation (Luther Hammers His 95 Theses To The Door byFerdinand Pauwels)
• UsefulNotes.The River War (Death of General Gordon at Khartoum byJean Leon Gerome Ferris)
• UsefulNotes.The Roman Republic (Cicero Denounces Catiline in the Roman Senate by Cesare Maccari)
• UsefulNotes.The Second Boer War (The Relief of Ladysmith, 1900 byJohn Henry Frederick Bacon, 1900)
• UsefulNotes.The Seventh Cavalry (Charge Of The Seventh Cavalry byFrank Feller)
• UsefulNotes.The Sound Of Martial Music (Cuirassiers autrichiens byRudolf Otto Ritter von Ottenfeld)
• UsefulNotes.The Spanish Inquisition (The Inquisition Tribunal orAuto de fe de la Inquisición byFrancisco José de Goya y Lucientes)
• UsefulNotes.The Teutonic Knights (The Teutonic's Charge at the Lake Peipus byGuiseppe Rava)
• UsefulNotes.The Thirteen American Colonies (Pilgrims Going to Church byGeorge Henry Boughton)
• UsefulNotes.Thirty Years War (Wallenstein: A Scene of the Thirty Years' War byErnest Crofts)
• UsefulNotes.Timur the Lame (Sultan Bayezid imprisoned by Timur byStanisław Chlebowski)
• UsefulNotes.Tsarist Russia (Tzar Mikhail Fedorovich Holding Council with the Boyars in His Royal Chamber byAndrei Ryabushkin)
• UsefulNotes.War Of The Spanish Succession (The Battle of Ramillies, 23 May 1706. The 16th Foot charging French infantry byRichard Simkin, 1900)
• Ushi-oni (Bakemono no e; top-left)
• Utopia (The Prologue and the Promise byRobert Mc Call)
• Valkyries (The Ride of the Valkyries byWilliam T Maud)
• Vanity Is Feminine (Vanity byAuguste Toulmouche)
• Viking Funeral (The Funeral of a Viking byFrank B Dicksee)
• Vikings In America (Leif Erikson Discovers America byHans Dahl)
• Violence Tropes (The Death of Athaliah byGustave Doré)
• Walk, Don't Swim (Underwater March byFrancesco Francavilla)
• Walk on Water (painting of Peter and Jesus on the Sea of Galilee, Greek Catholic Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Hungary, unknown artist)
• Walk the Plank (Walking the Plank byHoward Pyle)
• Wallet Moths (byFranz Scholz)
• Wandering Minstrel (Young Man Playing the Lute byFrans Hals)
• War Is Glorious (Le Trophée byJean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille)
• Warrior Prince (Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales (1330-76), "The Black Prince" byBenjamin Burnell)
• We Help the Helpless (The Rescue byArthur Hughes)
• White Is Pure (Song of the Angels byWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau)
• White Stallion (Napoleon Crossing the Alps byJacques-Louis David)
• Widow Mistreatment (Witwenverbrennung byBernard Picart)
• The Wild Hunt (Åsgårdsreien byPeter Nicolai Arbo)
• The Wild West (Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, poster circa 1898)
• William Telling (Anonymous artist, lithograph from picturebook circa 1850)
• Wine Is Classy (Self portrait with a glass of wine byArnold Böcklin)
• Winter of Starvation (Hungry Years in Petrograd byIvan Vladimirov)
• Wooden Ships and Iron Men (Battle of Trafalgar byJustin Sweet)
• Working-Class Hero (Freedom of Speech byNorman Rockwell)
• Working-Class Werewolves
• World War II.War in Asia and the Pacific (3^rd image:The Battle of Midway byHoward David Johnson)
• Would Hurt a Child (Medea byArtemisia Gentileschi)
• The Yellow Index (Sunflowers byVincent van Gogh)