-Illustration To Milton`s Paradise Lost-

Illustration for Act II of Richard Wagner’s Siegfried by Aubrey Beardsley (1892-93)

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863, French) ~ Odalisque, 1848 

@ Louvre Museum

Swamp Thing by Charles Vess

In the Tepidarium by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1881)

Eldorado

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—

This knight so bold—

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—

"Shadow," said he,

"Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,"

The shade replied—

"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edward Allen Poe

Dante Running from the Three Beasts, William Blake, between 1824 and 1827

The Dance of Death by Alphonse Mucha (1898)

Odalisque with a Fan by Guillaume Seignac (Late 19th - Early 20th Century)