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The Abbey in the Oakwood (1809-10) by Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840). A solemn funeral procession through the crumbling ruins of a Gothic abbey. #Gothic

Departure for the Sabbat [witches' sabbath] (1910) by Albert Joseph Pénot (French, 1862-1930). #Gothic

The birth of Aphrodite (1887) by Ivan Ajvazovskij (Russia, 1817-1900). Private Collection. Depiction of the birth of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, by one of great masters of marine art. #Seascape #MythologyMonday

Fishing on a Scottish Loch by John Graham Gilbert (1794–1866). #ScottishArt #Maritime

Aurora Borealis (1865) by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). #NorthernLights #AmericanArt

Stonehenge at Sunset (1836) by John Constable (England, 1776-1837). #Romanticism #Wiltshire

Two of the five illustrations by artist André Castaigne for the first American edition of the Phantom of the Opera (1911). Le Fantome de l'Opera was written in 1910 by French author Gaston Leroux (see third image). “All I wanted was to be loved for myself." #Gothic

Still life resurrecting [Naturaleza muerta resucitando] (1963) by Remedios Varo (1908-63). Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist. #FemaleArtist

Illustration to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (artist unknown). “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

An illustration for The Water Babies [Charles Kingsley] by Warwick Goble (England, 1862-1943). “Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.” #BookIllustrationOfTheDay