Ewan Morrisonさんのイラストまとめ

In his quest for the secret of an elixir for immortality, the Chinese Alchemist Ge Hong (283-343 AD) accidentally discovered how to make gunpowder. Ironic that the groundwork for the basis of modern weapons was laid by an alchemist searching for everlasting life.

The haunting mono-prints of Sophie Lécuyer.
Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that has images that can only be made once, unlike most printmaking, which allows for multiple originals.

The Unfinished Masterpieces of Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo was obsessed with anatomy, botany, flight, architecture & military design. the result being that he rarely completed his artistic commissions - for example Virgin and Child with St. Anne and John the Baptist (1507-08)

The Monsters of Fortunio Liceti (1665). "The book caused a huge rise in interest throughout Europe in “monstrosities”: mermaids, mutants, deformed fetuses & other natural marvels". "Licenti did not see deformity as something negative, Instead he likened nature to an artist."

The feminine alter ego of Marcel Duchamp was "Rrose Sélavy". Rrose first emerged in portraits of Duchamp made by Man Ray (1921). Duchamp later attributed specific works of art, readymades, puns & writings to his feminine alter ego. The name is itself a pun: "Rose, c'est la vie."

From the Sublime to the Grotesque. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) created his many studies of grotesque faces by the same method through which he discovered eternal beauty - through a minute study of facial features, then re-arranging them to create either harmony or disharmony.

Dreams of Floating and Falling. The art of Norwegian painter Henrik Aarrestead Uldalen. (Born 1986 in South Korea).

The Historiae Animalium (“Accounts of Animals” 1551-1558) is a 4,500-page encyclopaedia. In it, Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner attempted to list & describe all the world’s animals. He netted some mythical creatures along the way. Nonetheless the book marks the birth of zoology

@AustenLied yes, or overtaken by their own intrigues

The Hand of God. God, personified in human form in Western Art, did not appear till the 10th century. Prior to that God was represented as a disembodied hand or not at all. The Hand of God as an artistic metaphor was imported from Jewish art. Examples date from the 3rd C.