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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Nut Harvest” (1883), featured in “Fresh Air, Green Space, and Unsung Paths to Healthy Living”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Der Rettung entgegen” (1851-1913), featured in “Worldbuilding Immortals in Science Fiction” and “Gleichen and Valentinova: Lost in Space”
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Albert Bierstadt – “Alaska” (c. 1889), featured in “An Alternate History of Cascadia” and “Chinook Jargon Conquers the World?”
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Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “Sleeping Beauty” (1899), featured in “Fia After Opry Tower”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “Black Sea (A storm begins to whip up in the Black Sea)” (1881), featured in “The Lavender Glow of a Radon Sea: Worldbuilding Exotic Oceans”
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Antonio Sant’Elia – “Casa a gradinata” (1914), featured in “Personal Transportation of the Near Future: Flying Cars and Beyond”
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Constantino Brumidi – Sketch, Telegraph (c. 1862-67), featured in “A Telegraph World”
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Bror Lindh – “Northern Light” (1900), featured in “Worldbuilding Seasons on Planets with High Axial Tilts”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “Wave” (1889), featured in “Opry Tower: Going Goth?”
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “Spring” (1894), featured in “Worldbuilding Near-Future Space Demography”
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Unknown author – Reclining young woman with skull, c. 1900, featured in “Folkways From Our Past Return”
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Herbert James Draper – “A Water Baby” (c. 1895), featured in “Stop Worrying and Love the Birth Dearth?”
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Pierre Bouillon – “The Child of Fortune”, (1801), featured in “For Proportional Representation”
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Henry Raeburn – “Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry” (c. 1810-1812), featured in “Degree Quest: The Second Leg Looms”
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“Portrait of Emma Hart” by George Romney (c. 1784), featured in “Toward a Libertarian Artistic Movement”
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Paul Gustave Fischer – “The Royal Theatre Ballet School, Copenhagen” (1889), featured in “Interests Too Many, and Never Enough”
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Thomas Edwin Mostyn – “Jewels’ (1864-1930), featured in “Materialist, Not Minimalist”
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – “Napoleon on his Imperial throne” (1806), featured in “Gödel’s Loophole: My Pet Theory”
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Thomas Lawrence – “The Red Boy” (1825), featured in “Page Boys of the Perfect Storm”
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Juan Luna – “The Death of Cleopatra” (1881), featured in “Catacombs of Music City”
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James Tissot – “Plymouth Dockyard” (1887), featured in “College Ships: A Pathway to Seasteading”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Question to the Stars” (1901), featured in “To Further the Decentralized Web, Think Bigger”, “Taking My Space Opera into the Really Far Future”, and “A Beloved From the Stars”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Girls’ Night Out” (2021)
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Henrika Šantel – “The Chemist” (1932), featured in “The Final Frontiers of the Periodic Table”
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William Gale – “Rocking the Baby” (1867), featured in “Of Single Mothers by Choice”
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François-Joseph Navez – “Roman Shepherd Family in the Campagna” (1823), featured in “Family Formation: I’m Falling Behind…Or Am I?”
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Peder Mønsted – Solen trænger gennem trækronerne over Sæby Å (1922), featured in “Taking Earth into the 23rd Century”
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Auguste Toulmouche – “Vanity” (1890), featured in “Completing the New Me: Preventive Botox?” and “When Your Looks are Maxed Out…”
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James Tissot – “Goodbye on the Mersey” (c. 1880), featured in “Industrialization in a World Without Oil”
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J. Frassanito & Associates for NASA – McDonnell Douglas proposal for X-33 single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane (1996), featured in “Catching a Lift”
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Pierre-August Cot – “Primavera” (1873), featured in “Pensioners, Aristocrats, and Financial Independence”, and “Reinhardts After Rapunzel”
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Vilhelm Melbye (attrib.) – “Shipping off the Eddystone Lighthouse” (1824-82), featured in “Worldbuilding Communications with Smoke, Mirrors, and Analog Computers”
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Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa”
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John Reinhard Weguelin – “The Tired Dancer” (1879), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 33” and “Beware The Tired Dancer”
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Frederick Edwin Church – “Our Banner In The Sky” (1861), featured in “Worldbuilding Flags: Some Thoughts” and “In my Timeline, an Expanded States of America?”
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Alfons Mucha – “Dance” (1898), featured in “Toward Nuclearpunk: Solarpunk with a Twist”
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John William Godward – Dolce Far Niente (1897), featured in “Idle Geopolitics”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “An Allegory of Lost Love” (1851-1913), featured in “Shadows Never Lie: The Next Bond Movie I’d Make”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Through the Looking Glass” (2021)
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Henrietta Rae – “Roses of Youth” (1859-1928), featured in “A Not-so-Minor Dream for the Minor Outlying Islands”
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “God Speed!” (1900), featured in “The Future of Fashion: After Greige”
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Alexandre Cabanel – “Echo” (1874), featured in “Post-Liberalism: An Echo, Not a Choice”
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – “Hagar in the Wilderness” (1726-29), featured in “The Palestinians Must Go”
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Paul Emile Chabas – “Jeune Naiade” (1869-1937), featured in “Taffy’s Life: A Few Thoughts”
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Mihaly von Zichy – “Romantic Encounter” (1827-1906), featured in “I’m ‘The Most Dangerous Personality Type'” and “Give Me Those ‘Take Me’ Eyes”
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Elizabeth Keyser – “Resting at Dusk” (1851-98), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 84”
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Domenico Corvi – “Allegory of Painting” (1721-1803), featured in “Artists Exit Stage Left?”
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SpaceX – “A Performance Inside Starship” (2018), featured in “Interplanetary Travel in the Solar System of the Near Future”
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Les Bossinas – “Wormhole travel” (1998), featured in “Worldbuilding faster than Light Travel”
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“Emma Hamilton as Joan of Arc” (1780s-90s), featured in “Nemesis Among the Machines”
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Joseph-Marius Avy – “White ball” (1903), featured in “Ballroom and Business with ChatGPT”
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Albert Lynch – “The Jolly Boat” (1896), featured in “Accelerate! Front-Loading the New Year”
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Emma Musselman – “The Sky Pilot” (1918), featured in “2024: My Biggest Year Yet?”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Worldbuilding with Parthenogenesis” and “The Real Red Pill?”
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Pierre-Auguste Cot – “Springtime” (1873), featured in “Antifragility in Love and Life”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Abschied” (1892), featured in “Toward a Generational Division of Labor?” and “What? Semaglutide? And Chemical Peels? For Me?”
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Gabriel Loppé – “Unknown Title” (1882), featured in “Skiing and Space Diving on Other Worlds”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Emerald Nebula” (2021)
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “Off”, featured in “Donald Trump is Disqualified”
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Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Gibraltar at Night” (1844), featured in “For a Darkness Protection Act”
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Peter Nicolai Arbo – “The Wild Hunt of Odin” (1872), featured in “A Wandering Soul in the Wild Hunt?”
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John Collier – “Lilith” (1889), featured in “Bite the Apple, Escape the Amazon Jungle?”
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Luc-Olivier Merson – “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” (1880), featured in “Welcome to the Desert of the Weird”
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Wenzel-August Hablik – “Starry Sky” (1909), featured in “The New Star Trek I Would Have Made”
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John Smmons – The Morning Star (1867) (detail), featured in “Worldbuilding the Cool, the Romantic, and the Fantasy into my Space Opera Setting”
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Luis Ricardo Falero – The Planet Venus (1882), featured in “The Strange New Worlds of ‘Warp Dawn'”
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William-Adolphe Bougeureau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Courtesans and Drugs: All Things in Moderation?” and “A Dance with Death”
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Caspar David Friedrich – “Evening” (1821), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 66”
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George Romney – “Study of Emma Hamilton as Miranda” (1780s-90s), featured in “Thoughts on Ariel and the Adamas Nemesis Girls”
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Alexandre Cabanel – “The Birth of Venus” (1863), featured in “God Bless Filler”
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Hubble Space Telescope – “The Cosmic Horseshoe” (2011), featured in “The Sun as Gravitational Lens: A Breakthrough Technology?”
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Johann Ender – “From Darkness, the Light: Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences” (1831), featured in “On Etymologies of the Elements”
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Unknown artist, edited by Albertus Seba – Illustration of squid (circa 1735), featured in “After Thalassa: Squid Brains of Enceladus?”.
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Albert Bierstadt – “Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast” (1870), featured in “Let’s Build Pacific Coast City!”
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George Clausen – “The Student” (c. 1908), featured in “Toward a New Vision for Online Education”
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Delphin Enjolras – “Portrait of an Elegant Lady Reading” (1910), featured in “New Year, New Sci-Fi Romance Novel”
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Hans Dahl – Siste stråler (1849-1937), featured in “Dare I Put the Max in Looksmaxing?” and “Tan and Blonde, But am I Fun?”
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Seymour Millais Stone – “Parsifal and the Holy Grail” (1904), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 88”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Travel the Solar System at 1g” (2021)
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Peder Mørk Mønsted – “Capri” (1884), featured in “Pacific Destiny”
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Frederick Stuart Church – “Knowledge is Power” (1889), featured in “So Much Fear and Doubt For So Small a Paper”
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James Poole – “Donati’s Comet” (1858), featured in “Colonizing the Oort Cloud: The Final Frontier of the Solar System”
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John Martin – “The Fall of Babylon” (1831), featured in “Twenty Years of Terror”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “A Childhood Idyll” (1900), featured in “Life Cycles in my Space Opera’s Far Future”
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Albert von Keller – “Melancholy” (c. 1885), featured in “Left Out of Life”
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John William Waterhouse – Consulting the Oracle (1884), featured in “World Religions in Alternate Histories”
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Jean-Léon Gérôme – Pygmalion and Galatea (1890), featured in “Sponsus ex Twittera”
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Arthur Hacker – “Temptation of Sir Percival” (1894), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 16”
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Francis Danby – “Shipwreck” (c. 1850), featured in “No Escape for the Cheap”
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Alexandre Cabanel – “Fallen Angel” (1847), featured in “Angelenos, You Know Nothing of Hell”, and “I Do Not Fear the Dark Side as You Do!”
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Rogelio de Egusquiza – “Tristan and Isolde” (1912), featured in “Ever Rending: Another Bond Movie I’d Make”
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Rick Guidice – “Toroidal colonies, cutaway view, exposing the interior” (1970s), featured in “Artificial Gravity in Outer Space: Centrifuges and Beyond”
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “The Baths of Caracalla” (1899), fearured in “Sisterhoods and Hives of my Space Opera”
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Augustus Leopold Egg – “Past and Present” (1858), featured in “Worldbuilding Motorhomes”
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Winslow Homer – Girl in the Hammock” (1873), featured in “No Solace for the Single?”
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Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
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William-Adolphe Bougereau – “The Motherland” (1883), featured in “Big Families on the High Frontier: Worldbuilding Space Colony Demography” and “A Bride for a Triplet?”
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Frank Dicksee – “The Crisis” (1891), featured in “The Wonder Drug Scores Again?” and in “The Lives of Georgia and Decca: More Thoughts”
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Tom Roberts – “The Opening of the First Parliament” (1903), featured in “I Joined the Fediverse”
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Konstantin Makovsky – “Tamara and Demon” (1889), featured in “Me, Taking a Level in Sexy!?”
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George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-90s), featured in “Checking in on American Politics: 2020 Edition”, “A Romantic Apocalypse: Beyond the Doomsday Shroud”, “The Man Who Was Never Really Good Enough”, and “Justice for Lockdown”
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Ottilie Roederstein – “Portrait of Elisabeth Winterhalter” (1887), featured in “Ventures Too Many, or Just Enough?”
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Józef Chełmoński – “Cross in a Blizzard”, featured in “The Ultimate Storm?”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Maternal Admiration” (1869), featured in “The Boon of Young Motherhood?”
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Thomas Moran – “Green River, Wyoming” (1878), featured in “Young, Lonely, and Restless”
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John William Waterhouse – “The Crystal Ball” (1902), featured in “Crystal Cities in Other Galaxies”
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An antique New Year’s postcard in Berlin, Germany (c. 1911), featured in “Beginning the Night of the Calendars”
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John William Waterhouse – “Hylas and the Nymphs” (1896), featured in “Worldbuilding the Naked Jungle…in Space”
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun – Self-portrait with Her Daughter (1789), featured in “Thoughts on Names for Characters and Babies” and “Racing against Time…and my Wallet?”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Birth of Venus” (1879), featured in “One Dominion to Rule Them All?” and “My Newest Makeover Story: Myself”
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “A Little Prince likely in Time to bless a Royal Throne” (1904), featured in “Rules of Succession What-Ifs” and “Accident of Birth: A Feature, Not a Bug?” and “You Have More Than One Birthright…”
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Joseph DeCamp – “Farewell” (c. 1901-02), featured in “Europe: Should I Just Go?”
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Luis Ricardo Falero – “Nymphe” (1892), featured in “Aquamusicals in Space: Worldbuilding Zero-G Sports”
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Luis Ricardo Falero – “Moonlit Beauties” (1851-1896), featured in “Romantic Realist Science Fiction: A Sublime and Beautiful Future”
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Charles Chaplin – Allegory of Science (1891), featured in “R&D and the Great Power Sweepstakes”
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Alfred Seifert – “Hypatia” (1850-1901), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 58”
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George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1780s-90s), featured in “I Never Went to College…or High School”
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Artur José de Sousa Loureiro – “Spirit of the New Moon” (1888), featured in “To Orbit by Space Gun” and “Worldbuilding the First Moon Landing”
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John William Godward – the Priestess (1893), featured in “Indistinguishable from Nature: Toward a ubiquitous Dark Web” and “God Bless Botox”
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Karl Bryullov – “Italian Midday” (1827), featured in “Brand New Decca” and “A Virgin No More”
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François Gérard – “Portrait of Louise-Antoinette-Scholastique Guéhéneuc, Madame la Maréchale Lannes, Duchesse de Montebello, with her Children” (1814), featured in “The Secular Shall Inherit the Earth?”
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Benes Knüpfer – “Duel of the Tritons” (1848-1910), featured in “Some Thoughts on James Bond”
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Frederic Leighton – “The Fisherman and the Siren” (1858), featured in “The Siren Song of Job Security”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Youth Conquers Age” (1900), featured in “Dare I Join the Dark World?”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “Ships in a Storm” (1860), featured in “A Pirate Story for Me, Savvy?”
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Gustav Wertheimer – “The Kiss of the Siren” (1882), featuring “Making Diet and Exercise Easy and Fun”
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John Martin – “Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still” (1816), featured in “Let Us Move Beyond ‘Convincing Conservatives'”
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “The Dedication” (1908), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 4”
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Julius Sergius von Klever – “Moonlight Winter Landscape” (1913), featured in “Housing Crisis: Is the End in Sight?”
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Edward Arthur Walton – John George Bartholemew (1911), featured in “Of Map Projections Obscure”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Great Pyramid at Giza” (1871), featured in “Twilight of a Decade”
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Witold Pruszkowski – “Falling star” (1884), featured in “Panspermia, the Alpha, and the Omega”
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Frederic Edwin Church – “Aurora Borealis” (1865), featured in “Thalassa, or Proxima Centauri b: The Pale Green Dot”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Starburst” (2021)
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Unknown (but good!) Illustrator – “Sif was Queen of the Fields” (1897), featured in “More Thoughts on my New Calendar”
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Edward Coley Burne-Jones – “Psyche’s Wedding” (1895), featured in “The Future of Marriage”
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Fritz Zuber-Bühler – Distant Thoughts (1822-96), featured in “Beginning the Adventure of writing a Novel”, “It’s my Life! Into the Next Year”, and “Great Christmas Blizzard: Now Writing!”
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John Martin – “Manfred and the Witch of the Alps” (1837), featured in “Improving the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy”
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John Gast – “American Progress” (1872), featured in “One Billion Americans, 19th Century Style?”
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Albert Edelfelt – “At the Piano” (1884), featured in “Academia, Dark and Otherwise”
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Edvard Munch – Vampire (1895), featured in “Vampires of the Oort Cloud?”
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Maxime Vorobiov;s “Oak fractured by Lightning” (1842), featured in “Operating System What-Ifs”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Base 10 versus Base 12 parchment” (2021), featured in “Worldbuilding Number Systems”
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter – “The Cousins (Queen Victoria and Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours)” (1852), featured in “Tangling Up a Family Tree for Fun and Worldbuilding”
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Rick Guidice – Bernal Sphere “Interior including human powered flight” (1970s), featured in “Our Future in Space Habitats: More Thoughts”
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Alfons Mucha – An illustration from “Le Pater” (1899), featured in “In Restless Repose”
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Jean-Léon Gérôme – “Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind” (1896), featured in “Of Fediverses and Frustrations”
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Tresca, Salvatore (Graveur), Lafitte, Louis (Dessinateur du modèle) – Vendémaire calendar (1797-98), featured in “Worldbuilding New Calendars”
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Heywood Hardy – “Holiday Time” (1908), featured in “A Slice of Life at the Dawn of the Space Age?”
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NASA – “High Altitude Venus Operational Concept” (2014), featured in “Worldbuilding Cloud Cities on Venus”
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Archibald Thorburn – “On the stooks – Blackgame” (1902), featured in Worldbuilding Avian Intelligence”
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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard – “Portrait of Louise-Elisabeth of France with her son” (1780s), featured in “Forget Humanoid Aliens: Try Dinosaur Aliens”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Les Oreades” (1902), featured in “Counting Bodies”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Spaceplane approaching Neptune orbital Sphere” (2020)
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Donald Davis – “Endcap view with suspension bridge” (1975), featured in “Worldbuilding Space Megastructures: Beyond Dyson Spheres”
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Peder Mørk Mønsted – “A Forest Stream” (1905), featured in “A Vacation Home for Decca?”
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Robert Wilhelm Ekman – “Ilmatar” (1860), featured in “Worldbuilding Exotic Oxygen Atmospheres” and “Letters from the Airy Deep: New Novel Coming Soon”
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Albert Bierstadt – “Storm in the Mountains” (c. 1870), featured in “The Dark Matter of Excellence”
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Jacques-Louis David – “The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis” (1818), featured in “Becoming a Superior Man: Easier than You Think?”
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James Tissot – “Room Overlooking the Harbor” (c. 1876-78), featured in “The Puzzle of Credentialism”
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Leonardo da Vinci – “Study for the Head of Leda” (1503-10), featured in “The Renaissance Man, still the Master”
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Antoon van Welie’s portrait of the gorgeous Geneviève Lantelme (1911), featured in “My Dream Relationship”
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Albert Bettannier – “The Black Stain” (1887), featured in “Redrawing the Map of Ukraine”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Toteninsel” (Isle of the Dead) (1851-1913), featured in “Panpsychism and Beyond”
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Eugène Carrière – “Two Women” (1895), featured in “Hold Fast the Dream”
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Paul DiMare – NASA Study for Manned Mars Mission (1989), featured in “Road Trains of Mars”
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George Romney – “Emma Hart as Circe” (1782), featured in “The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy I Would Have Made”
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Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrien (1869), featured in “Constant Acceleration: Across the Solar System and Beyond”
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Arthur John Elsley – “Well on the mend” (1910), featured in “On the ‘We’re So Blessed’ Starter Pack”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “The Fairy Dance” (1895), featured in “The Coming Union of Intelligence and the Cosmos Primeval”, and “Straddling the Shadow of Life”
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Millais, John Everett; The Convalescent; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-convalescent-107425
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George Spencer Watson – “The Saddler’s Daughter” (1923-24), featured in “Triumph of the Fleece Vest”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Glowbugs in flight” (2021), featured in “Double, Double, Stories and Trouble”
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Will Longstaff – “Ghosts of Vimy Ridge” (1931), featured in “The Archaism of Donald Trump”
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Marcus Herzberg – “Tall buildings in Dubai at night” (2018), featured in “Gleaming Cities of the Eclipsed”
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Richard Riemerschmid – “Ghost clouds” (detail) (c. 1897), featured in “To Love a Ghost”
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Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “The ball or an elegant evening” (c. 1890), featured in “A Social Vision for College Ships”
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Ferdinand Richardt – “Steamwheeler on the Upper Mississippi” (1865), featured in “Riverboat Futurism à la Nouvelle-Orléans?”
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Marie-Denise Villers – “Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes” (1801), featured in “Thinking Outside the ‘FIRE’ Box” and “Normie Bingo? Let’s Play”
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Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun – “Portrait of Princess Karoline of Liechtenstein” (1793), featured in “A Second Sci-Fi Romance Novel is Coming Soon”, “Dear Future Me: New Sci-Fi Romance Novel Released”, and “Of Principalities That Are, and Nations That Never Were”
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Caspar David Friedrich – “Graveyard Under Snow” (1825), featured in “A Diamond Baron Goes Green?”
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Thomas Cole – “The Ages of Life: Youth” (1842), featured in “Leveraged Stocks for long-term Investing”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Story Book” (1877), featured in “Orphans of Opry Tower: Now Writing”
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Léon-François Comerre – “Moon” (1850-1916), featured in “Infinite Scattering: The Future of Spacefaring Civilization?”
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Gabriel Émile Édouard Nicolet – “Portrait of a Nurse from the Red Cross” (c. 1914), featured in “Therapeutics of my Alternate History”
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George Romney – “Emma, Lady Hamilton” (c. 1785), featured in “Taking my Space Opera into the Far Future”
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Ivan Auvazovsky – “The Wave” (1889), featured in “A Flying-Dutchman Christmas Tree Ship?”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “Peter the Great at Krasnaya Gorka” (1846), featured in “The Twilight of Conservatism”
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Charles Dana Gibson – “Serious Business” (1906), featured in “Me, A Spendy Start-Up? Oh No!”
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“Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6”, after Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1816), featured in “Cosmic Ley Lines: Space Opera to Space Fantasy”
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George Romney – “Lady Emma Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-1790s), featured in “Lockdown, the Culture of Fear, and the Politics of the Future” and “The Clock is Ticking”
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Alfons Mucha – “Spring” (1898), featured in “Ready for Rapunzel”
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Jean Delville – “Allegory of Music” (1923), featured in “A Music City for my Alternate History”
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Thomas Le Clear – “Young America” (1863), featured in “Abolish Elections: For Sortition and Direct Democracy”
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Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson et Amable Louis Pagnest – “Atala au tombeau” (1813), featured in “A Life Not-So-Well-Lived?”
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Joseph Farquharson – “The Blizzard” (1846-1935), featured in “Christmas Blizzard: More Brainstorming”
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – Lady Emma Hamilton as either Ariadne or a Bacchante (c. 1790-92), featured in “Feminine Companionship: An Unsung Ideal”
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Eduard Büchler – “Classical ruins with a maiden in the foreground” (1915), featured in “Kudzu Among the Ruins”
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Wilhelm Kray – “Sea Creatures” (1828-1889), featured in “Upgrading the Life of Linda”, “Fun with Matrilineal Patriarchies”, and “My Future: California Beach Baby”
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Jonas Lie – “Path of Gold” (1914), featured in “Ecumenopolis: Thoughts on Worldbuilding City-Planets”
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Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars (1927), featured in “Worldbuilding a Space Opera Setting of My Own”
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Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
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“Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, page 180” by Arthur Rackham (1911), featured in “Starve the Beast: Still the Path to Smaller Government?”
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George Wilson – “Snow Scene” (1848-1890), featured in “Christmas Night, Rocket Night, Magic Night”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Solitude” (1851-1913), featured in “Lifestyles in a Fully Globalized Future”
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NASA – “X-30 NASP” (1990), featured in” The Shapes of Spaceships”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Ninth Wave” (1850), home page header image, and featured in “A Bolt from the Blue”
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Harry Wilson Watrous – “Just a Couple of Girls” (1915), featured in “Do My Stories Pass the Bechdel Test?”
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“The Death of Dido” – Henry Bone (after Reynolds) (1804), featured in “Delayed Childbearing: I Too Succumb”
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Cesare Maccari – “Cicero Denounces Catiline” (1889), featured in “Presidential Debate Reform: A Radical Proposal”
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Albert Bredow – “Romantic Winter Landscape with Gothic Castle” (1899), featured in “The Heir Abides”
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Jules Joseph Lefebvre – “Servant” (1880), featured in “Third Rome, Viking Tsars, Russian Turan, and Beyond”
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Thomas Francis Dicksee – “Distant Thoughts” (1886), featured in “A Stream of Thoughts Against Lockdown”
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Gustav Dore – “Dante and the River of Lethe” (1880), featured in “Lethe to the Future”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Nut Gatherers” (1882), featured in “Art, Nature, and Freedom: Toward a Better Future for Education”
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John Martin – “Pandemonium” (1841), featured in “Our Dystopian Moment: The Fruit of Our Dystopian Futures”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Sphinx mit Undine” (1902), featured in “The Long Night of Elite Imagination”
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Peder Mørk Mønsted – “The Woodland Glade” (1898), featured in “Germanic America’s Strange Dearth”
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Thomas Cole – “The Course of Empire: The Savage State” (1836), featured in “Worldbuilding with Dunbar’s Number”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Not Too Much to Carry” (1895), featured in “The Surprising Path to a Happy Everyday Life”
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “Tristan and Isolde” (1902), featured in “My Girlfriend, Unbeknownst to Me”
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NASA/JSC – “Humans Explore Martian Canyons at Dawn” (1989), featured in “Worldbuilding the First Mars Landing”
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Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa” and “Why Don’t You Stay?”
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Constance Mayer – The Dream of Happiness (1819), featured in “All My Little Dreamlets”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Martyr and crucified, son Helios” (1895), featured in “Some Thoughts on Harry Potter”
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Gaston La Touche – “Le Ballet” (1890-1913), featured in “Dancing in Space: Worldbuilding More Zero-G Sports”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Sunset flight to cloud city” (2020)
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Capri III” (1900), featured in “The Rise of Deplatforming and the Decentralized Web”
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Frank Lloyd Wright – Sketches for Broadacre City (1932), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, featured in “Thoughts on Futuristic Transportation”
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Adamas Nemesis – “A Trip to Starlit Spa” (2021)
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1790), featured in “Jean Sibelius and the Music of a Sci-Fi World”
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NASA – “Blue Rays, New Horizons’ High-Res Farewell to Pluto” (2015), featured in “Worldbuilding the Definition of Planet”
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Mårten Eskil Winge – “Thor’s Fight with the Giants” (1872), featured in “The Dark Path to Masculine Beauty”
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Caspar David Friedrich – “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (1819-20), featured in “My Lunar Program After Wings of Fire”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Charting the Airy Deep” (2020)
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Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter – “Odalisque” (c. 1861-1897), featured in “Scratch One Tassel”
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Alfons Mucha – “The Arts: Painting” (1898), featured in “Toward More Visual Storytelling”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Fly me to the moons” (2021)
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Black Sea (A storm begins to whip up in the Black Sea)” (1881), featured in “The Lavender Glow of a Radon Sea: Worldbuilding Exotic Oceans”
Leonardo da Vinci – “Study for the Head of Leda” (1503-10), featured in “The Renaissance Man, still the Master”
Delphin Enjolras – “Portrait of an Elegant Lady Reading” (1910), featured in “New Year, New Sci-Fi Romance Novel”
Ottilie Roederstein – “Portrait of Elisabeth Winterhalter” (1887), featured in “Ventures Too Many, or Just Enough?”
Jean-Léon Gérôme – Pygmalion and Galatea (1890), featured in “Sponsus ex Twittera”
Robert Wilhelm Ekman – “Ilmatar” (1860), featured in “Worldbuilding Exotic Oxygen Atmospheres” and “Letters from the Airy Deep: New Novel Coming Soon”
George Romney – “Lady Emma Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-1790s), featured in “Lockdown, the Culture of Fear, and the Politics of the Future” and “The Clock is Ticking”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Sphinx mit Undine” (1902), featured in “The Long Night of Elite Imagination”
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard – “Portrait of Louise-Elisabeth of France with her son” (1780s), featured in “Forget Humanoid Aliens: Try Dinosaur Aliens”
James Poole – “Donati’s Comet” (1858), featured in “Colonizing the Oort Cloud: The Final Frontier of the Solar System”
Pierre Bouillon – “The Child of Fortune”, (1801), featured in “For Proportional Representation”
Thomas Edwin Mostyn – “Jewels’ (1864-1930), featured in “Materialist, Not Minimalist”
John Martin – “Manfred and the Witch of the Alps” (1837), featured in “Improving the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Ninth Wave” (1850), home page header image, and featured in “A Bolt from the Blue”
Frank Dicksee – “The Crisis” (1891), featured in “The Wonder Drug Scores Again?” and in “The Lives of Georgia and Decca: More Thoughts”
Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “The Baths of Caracalla” (1899), fearured in “Sisterhoods and Hives of my Space Opera”
James Tissot – “Plymouth Dockyard” (1887), featured in “College Ships: A Pathway to Seasteading”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Worldbuilding with Parthenogenesis” and “The Real Red Pill?”
Luis Ricardo Falero – “Nymphe” (1892), featured in “Aquamusicals in Space: Worldbuilding Zero-G Sports”
Ivan Auvazovsky – “The Wave” (1889), featured in “A Flying-Dutchman Christmas Tree Ship?”
Antonio Sant’Elia – “Casa a gradinata” (1914), featured in “Personal Transportation of the Near Future: Flying Cars and Beyond”
Domenico Corvi – “Allegory of Painting” (1721-1803), featured in “Artists Exit Stage Left?”
George Clausen – “The Student” (c. 1908), featured in “Toward a New Vision for Online Education”
Bror Lindh – “Northern Light” (1900), featured in “Worldbuilding Seasons on Planets with High Axial Tilts”
Eduard Büchler – “Classical ruins with a maiden in the foreground” (1915), featured in “Kudzu Among the Ruins”
Charles Dana Gibson – “Serious Business” (1906), featured in “Me, A Spendy Start-Up? Oh No!”
George Romney – “Emma Hart as Circe” (1782), featured in “The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy I Would Have Made”
Jules Joseph Lefebvre – “Servant” (1880), featured in “Third Rome, Viking Tsars, Russian Turan, and Beyond”
“Emma Hamilton as Joan of Arc” (1780s-90s), featured in “Nemesis Among the Machines”
Charles Chaplin – Allegory of Science (1891), featured in “R&D and the Great Power Sweepstakes”
Auguste Toulmouche – “Vanity” (1890), featured in “Completing the New Me: Preventive Botox?” and “When Your Looks are Maxed Out…”
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1790), featured in “Jean Sibelius and the Music of a Sci-Fi World”
Peter Nicolai Arbo – “The Wild Hunt of Odin” (1872), featured in “A Wandering Soul in the Wild Hunt?”
Harry Wilson Watrous – “Just a Couple of Girls” (1915), featured in “Do My Stories Pass the Bechdel Test?”
Frederick Stuart Church – “Knowledge is Power” (1889), featured in “So Much Fear and Doubt For So Small a Paper”
SpaceX – “A Performance Inside Starship” (2018), featured in “Interplanetary Travel in the Solar System of the Near Future”
Unknown author – Reclining young woman with skull, c. 1900, featured in “Folkways From Our Past Return”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Toteninsel” (Isle of the Dead) (1851-1913), featured in “Panpsychism and Beyond”
Unknown artist, edited by Albertus Seba – Illustration of squid (circa 1735), featured in “After Thalassa: Squid Brains of Enceladus?”.
Alfons Mucha – “Spring” (1898), featured in “Ready for Rapunzel”
Archibald Thorburn – “On the stooks – Blackgame” (1902), featured in Worldbuilding Avian Intelligence”
Tom Roberts – “The Opening of the First Parliament” (1903), featured in “I Joined the Fediverse”
Juan Luna – “The Death of Cleopatra” (1881), featured in “Catacombs of Music City”
Peder Mørk Mønsted – “The Woodland Glade” (1898), featured in “Germanic America’s Strange Dearth”
Adamas Nemesis – “Base 10 versus Base 12 parchment” (2021), featured in “Worldbuilding Number Systems”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Martyr and crucified, son Helios” (1895), featured in “Some Thoughts on Harry Potter”
John William Waterhouse – Consulting the Oracle (1884), featured in “World Religions in Alternate Histories”
Adamas Nemesis – “Emerald Nebula” (2021)
Albert Lynch – “The Jolly Boat” (1896), featured in “Accelerate! Front-Loading the New Year”
Adamas Nemesis – “Starburst” (2021)
Edvard Munch – Vampire (1895), featured in “Vampires of the Oort Cloud?”
Seymour Millais Stone – “Parsifal and the Holy Grail” (1904), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 88”
Peder Mørk Mønsted – “A Forest Stream” (1905), featured in “A Vacation Home for Decca?”
Adamas Nemesis – “Charting the Airy Deep” (2020)
Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrien (1869), featured in “Constant Acceleration: Across the Solar System and Beyond”
Edward Coley Burne-Jones – “Psyche’s Wedding” (1895), featured in “The Future of Marriage”
Karl Bryullov – “Italian Midday” (1827), featured in “Brand New Decca” and “A Virgin No More”
François Gérard – “Portrait of Louise-Antoinette-Scholastique Guéhéneuc, Madame la Maréchale Lannes, Duchesse de Montebello, with her Children” (1814), featured in “The Secular Shall Inherit the Earth?”
Adamas Nemesis – “A Trip to Starlit Spa” (2021)
Henry Raeburn – “Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry” (c. 1810-1812), featured in “Degree Quest: The Second Leg Looms”
Herbert James Draper – “A Water Baby” (c. 1895), featured in “Stop Worrying and Love the Birth Dearth?”
Constance Mayer – The Dream of Happiness (1819), featured in “All My Little Dreamlets”
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Gibraltar at Night” (1844), featured in “For a Darkness Protection Act”
Les Bossinas – “Wormhole travel” (1998), featured in “Worldbuilding faster than Light Travel”
Alfons Mucha – An illustration from “Le Pater” (1899), featured in “In Restless Repose”
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – Lady Emma Hamilton as either Ariadne or a Bacchante (c. 1790-92), featured in “Feminine Companionship: An Unsung Ideal”
James Tissot – “Room Overlooking the Harbor” (c. 1876-78), featured in “The Puzzle of Credentialism”
Luc-Olivier Merson – “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” (1880), featured in “Welcome to the Desert of the Weird”
Frederick Edwin Church – “Our Banner In The Sky” (1861), featured in “Worldbuilding Flags: Some Thoughts” and “In my Timeline, an Expanded States of America?”
Alexandre Cabanel – “The Birth of Venus” (1863), featured in “God Bless Filler”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “A Childhood Idyll” (1900), featured in “Life Cycles in my Space Opera’s Far Future”
Witold Pruszkowski – “Falling star” (1884), featured in “Panspermia, the Alpha, and the Omega”
Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “The ball or an elegant evening” (c. 1890), featured in “A Social Vision for College Ships”
Albert Edelfelt – “At the Piano” (1884), featured in “Academia, Dark and Otherwise”
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – “Napoleon on his Imperial throne” (1806), featured in “Gödel’s Loophole: My Pet Theory”
J. Frassanito & Associates for NASA – McDonnell Douglas proposal for X-33 single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane (1996), featured in “Catching a Lift”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “God Speed!” (1900), featured in “The Future of Fashion: After Greige”
Albert von Keller – “Melancholy” (c. 1885), featured in “Left Out of Life”
Paul Gustave Fischer – “The Royal Theatre Ballet School, Copenhagen” (1889), featured in “Interests Too Many, and Never Enough”
Adamas Nemesis – “Glowbugs in flight” (2021), featured in “Double, Double, Stories and Trouble”
Emma Musselman – “The Sky Pilot” (1918), featured in “2024: My Biggest Year Yet?”
Albert Bierstadt – “Storm in the Mountains” (c. 1870), featured in “The Dark Matter of Excellence”
“Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6”, after Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1816), featured in “Cosmic Ley Lines: Space Opera to Space Fantasy”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Der Rettung entgegen” (1851-1913), featured in “Worldbuilding Immortals in Science Fiction” and “Gleichen and Valentinova: Lost in Space”
Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “Spring” (1894), featured in “Worldbuilding Near-Future Space Demography”
Léon-François Comerre – “Moon” (1850-1916), featured in “Infinite Scattering: The Future of Spacefaring Civilization?”
Adamas Nemesis – “Sunset flight to cloud city” (2020)
Eugène Carrière – “Two Women” (1895), featured in “Hold Fast the Dream”
George Romney – “Study of Emma Hamilton as Miranda” (1780s-90s), featured in “Thoughts on Ariel and the Adamas Nemesis Girls”
William-Adolphe Bougereau – “The Motherland” (1883), featured in “Big Families on the High Frontier: Worldbuilding Space Colony Demography” and “A Bride for a Triplet?”
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – “Hagar in the Wilderness” (1726-29), featured in “The Palestinians Must Go”
Józef Chełmoński – “Cross in a Blizzard”, featured in “The Ultimate Storm?”
Jonas Lie – “Path of Gold” (1914), featured in “Ecumenopolis: Thoughts on Worldbuilding City-Planets”
John Smmons – The Morning Star (1867) (detail), featured in “Worldbuilding the Cool, the Romantic, and the Fantasy into my Space Opera Setting”
Joseph-Marius Avy – “White ball” (1903), featured in “Ballroom and Business with ChatGPT”
Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars (1927), featured in “Worldbuilding a Space Opera Setting of My Own”
Rick Guidice – “Toroidal colonies, cutaway view, exposing the interior” (1970s), featured in “Artificial Gravity in Outer Space: Centrifuges and Beyond”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Solitude” (1851-1913), featured in “Lifestyles in a Fully Globalized Future”
Johann Ender – “From Darkness, the Light: Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences” (1831), featured in “On Etymologies of the Elements”
Alexandre Cabanel – “Fallen Angel” (1847), featured in “Angelenos, You Know Nothing of Hell”, and “I Do Not Fear the Dark Side as You Do!”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “A Little Prince likely in Time to bless a Royal Throne” (1904), featured in “Rules of Succession What-Ifs” and “Accident of Birth: A Feature, Not a Bug?” and “You Have More Than One Birthright…”
Will Longstaff – “Ghosts of Vimy Ridge” (1931), featured in “The Archaism of Donald Trump”
Jean-Léon Gérôme – “Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind” (1896), featured in “Of Fediverses and Frustrations”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “Off”, featured in “Donald Trump is Disqualified”
François-Joseph Navez – “Roman Shepherd Family in the Campagna” (1823), featured in “Family Formation: I’m Falling Behind…Or Am I?”
Mihaly von Zichy – “Romantic Encounter” (1827-1906), featured in “I’m ‘The Most Dangerous Personality Type'” and “Give Me Those ‘Take Me’ Eyes”
John Reinhard Weguelin – “The Tired Dancer” (1879), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 33” and “Beware The Tired Dancer”
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson et Amable Louis Pagnest – “Atala au tombeau” (1813), featured in “A Life Not-So-Well-Lived?”
Gustav Dore – “Dante and the River of Lethe” (1880), featured in “Lethe to the Future”
NASA – “X-30 NASP” (1990), featured in” The Shapes of Spaceships”
John William Waterhouse – “Hylas and the Nymphs” (1896), featured in “Worldbuilding the Naked Jungle…in Space”
Paul Emile Chabas – “Jeune Naiade” (1869-1937), featured in “Taffy’s Life: A Few Thoughts”
William-Adolphe Bougeureau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Courtesans and Drugs: All Things in Moderation?” and “A Dance with Death”
George Romney – “Emma, Lady Hamilton” (c. 1785), featured in “Taking my Space Opera into the Far Future”
John Gast – “American Progress” (1872), featured in “One Billion Americans, 19th Century Style?”
Rogelio de Egusquiza – “Tristan and Isolde” (1912), featured in “Ever Rending: Another Bond Movie I’d Make”
Rick Guidice – Bernal Sphere “Interior including human powered flight” (1970s), featured in “Our Future in Space Habitats: More Thoughts”
Marie-Denise Villers – “Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes” (1801), featured in “Thinking Outside the ‘FIRE’ Box” and “Normie Bingo? Let’s Play”
Gabriel Loppé – “Unknown Title” (1882), featured in “Skiing and Space Diving on Other Worlds”
Frank Lloyd Wright – Sketches for Broadacre City (1932), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, featured in “Thoughts on Futuristic Transportation”
“Portrait of Emma Hart” by George Romney (c. 1784), featured in “Toward a Libertarian Artistic Movement”
Thomas Francis Dicksee – “Distant Thoughts” (1886), featured in “A Stream of Thoughts Against Lockdown”
Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa” and “Why Don’t You Stay?”
Heywood Hardy – “Holiday Time” (1908), featured in “A Slice of Life at the Dawn of the Space Age?”
John Collier – “Lilith” (1889), featured in “Bite the Apple, Escape the Amazon Jungle?”
Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter – “Odalisque” (c. 1861-1897), featured in “Scratch One Tassel”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Abschied” (1892), featured in “Toward a Generational Division of Labor?” and “What? Semaglutide? And Chemical Peels? For Me?”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Nut Harvest” (1883), featured in “Fresh Air, Green Space, and Unsung Paths to Healthy Living”
Frederic Leighton – “The Fisherman and the Siren” (1858), featured in “The Siren Song of Job Security”
Albert Bierstadt – “Alaska” (c. 1889), featured in “An Alternate History of Cascadia” and “Chinook Jargon Conquers the World?”
Peder Mønsted – Solen trænger gennem trækronerne over Sæby Å (1922), featured in “Taking Earth into the 23rd Century”
Pierre-Auguste Cot – “Springtime” (1873), featured in “Antifragility in Love and Life”
Constantino Brumidi – Sketch, Telegraph (c. 1862-67), featured in “A Telegraph World”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Nut Gatherers” (1882), featured in “Art, Nature, and Freedom: Toward a Better Future for Education”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “The Dedication” (1908), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 4”
George Spencer Watson – “The Saddler’s Daughter” (1923-24), featured in “Triumph of the Fleece Vest”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Story Book” (1877), featured in “Orphans of Opry Tower: Now Writing”
Konstantin Makovsky – “Tamara and Demon” (1889), featured in “Me, Taking a Level in Sexy!?”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Peter the Great at Krasnaya Gorka” (1846), featured in “The Twilight of Conservatism”
Joseph Farquharson – “The Blizzard” (1846-1935), featured in “Christmas Blizzard: More Brainstorming”
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
Millais, John Everett; The Convalescent; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-convalescent-107425
Franz Xaver Winterhalter – “The Cousins (Queen Victoria and Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours)” (1852), featured in “Tangling Up a Family Tree for Fun and Worldbuilding”
Caspar David Friedrich – “Evening” (1821), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 66”
Arthur John Elsley – “Well on the mend” (1910), featured in “On the ‘We’re So Blessed’ Starter Pack”
Thomas Moran – “Green River, Wyoming” (1878), featured in “Young, Lonely, and Restless”
Caspar David Friedrich – “Graveyard Under Snow” (1825), featured in “A Diamond Baron Goes Green?”
Maxime Vorobiov;s “Oak fractured by Lightning” (1842), featured in “Operating System What-Ifs”
Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “Sleeping Beauty” (1899), featured in “Fia After Opry Tower”
Julius Sergius von Klever – “Moonlight Winter Landscape” (1913), featured in “Housing Crisis: Is the End in Sight?”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “The Fairy Dance” (1895), featured in “The Coming Union of Intelligence and the Cosmos Primeval”, and “Straddling the Shadow of Life”
Tresca, Salvatore (Graveur), Lafitte, Louis (Dessinateur du modèle) – Vendémaire calendar (1797-98), featured in “Worldbuilding New Calendars”
John William Waterhouse – “The Crystal Ball” (1902), featured in “Crystal Cities in Other Galaxies”
Elizabeth Keyser – “Resting at Dusk” (1851-98), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 84”
Unknown (but good!) Illustrator – “Sif was Queen of the Fields” (1897), featured in “More Thoughts on my New Calendar”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Maternal Admiration” (1869), featured in “The Boon of Young Motherhood?”
“The Death of Dido” – Henry Bone (after Reynolds) (1804), featured in “Delayed Childbearing: I Too Succumb”
Alfred Seifert – “Hypatia” (1850-1901), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 58”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Birth of Venus” (1879), featured in “One Dominion to Rule Them All?” and “My Newest Makeover Story: Myself”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “An Allegory of Lost Love” (1851-1913), featured in “Shadows Never Lie: The Next Bond Movie I’d Make”
Alexandre Cabanel – “Echo” (1874), featured in “Post-Liberalism: An Echo, Not a Choice”
William Gale – “Rocking the Baby” (1867), featured in “Of Single Mothers by Choice”
George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-90s), featured in “Checking in on American Politics: 2020 Edition”, “A Romantic Apocalypse: Beyond the Doomsday Shroud”, “The Man Who Was Never Really Good Enough”, and “Justice for Lockdown”
James Tissot – “Goodbye on the Mersey” (c. 1880), featured in “Industrialization in a World Without Oil”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Question to the Stars” (1901), featured in “To Further the Decentralized Web, Think Bigger”, “Taking My Space Opera into the Really Far Future”, and “A Beloved From the Stars”
Donald Davis – “Endcap view with suspension bridge” (1975), featured in “Worldbuilding Space Megastructures: Beyond Dyson Spheres”
Richard Riemerschmid – “Ghost clouds” (detail) (c. 1897), featured in “To Love a Ghost”
Mårten Eskil Winge – “Thor’s Fight with the Giants” (1872), featured in “The Dark Path to Masculine Beauty”
Gabriel Émile Édouard Nicolet – “Portrait of a Nurse from the Red Cross” (c. 1914), featured in “Therapeutics of my Alternate History”
Albert Bierstadt – “Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast” (1870), featured in “Let’s Build Pacific Coast City!”
Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Not Too Much to Carry” (1895), featured in “The Surprising Path to a Happy Everyday Life”
Albert Bredow – “Romantic Winter Landscape with Gothic Castle” (1899), featured in “The Heir Abides”
Antoon van Welie’s portrait of the gorgeous Geneviève Lantelme (1911), featured in “My Dream Relationship”
Frederic Edwin Church – “Aurora Borealis” (1865), featured in “Thalassa, or Proxima Centauri b: The Pale Green Dot”
Adamas Nemesis – “Spaceplane approaching Neptune orbital Sphere” (2020)
Benes Knüpfer – “Duel of the Tritons” (1848-1910), featured in “Some Thoughts on James Bond”
Alfons Mucha – “Dance” (1898), featured in “Toward Nuclearpunk: Solarpunk with a Twist”
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun – Self-portrait with Her Daughter (1789), featured in “Thoughts on Names for Characters and Babies” and “Racing against Time…and my Wallet?”
Henrietta Rae – “Roses of Youth” (1859-1928), featured in “A Not-so-Minor Dream for the Minor Outlying Islands”
Pierre-August Cot – “Primavera” (1873), featured in “Pensioners, Aristocrats, and Financial Independence”, and “Reinhardts After Rapunzel”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “Tristan and Isolde” (1902), featured in “My Girlfriend, Unbeknownst to Me”
Adamas Nemesis – “Through the Looking Glass” (2021)
Gaston La Touche – “Le Ballet” (1890-1913), featured in “Dancing in Space: Worldbuilding More Zero-G Sports”
George Wilson – “Snow Scene” (1848-1890), featured in “Christmas Night, Rocket Night, Magic Night”
Thomas Le Clear – “Young America” (1863), featured in “Abolish Elections: For Sortition and Direct Democracy”
Augustus Leopold Egg – “Past and Present” (1858), featured in “Worldbuilding Motorhomes”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Great Pyramid at Giza” (1871), featured in “Twilight of a Decade”
Winslow Homer – Girl in the Hammock” (1873), featured in “No Solace for the Single?”
John William Godward – Dolce Far Niente (1897), featured in “Idle Geopolitics”
Luis Ricardo Falero – “Moonlit Beauties” (1851-1896), featured in “Romantic Realist Science Fiction: A Sublime and Beautiful Future”
Edward Arthur Walton – John George Bartholemew (1911), featured in “Of Map Projections Obscure”
Wenzel-August Hablik – “Starry Sky” (1909), featured in “The New Star Trek I Would Have Made”
Vilhelm Melbye (attrib.) – “Shipping off the Eddystone Lighthouse” (1824-82), featured in “Worldbuilding Communications with Smoke, Mirrors, and Analog Computers”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Capri III” (1900), featured in “The Rise of Deplatforming and the Decentralized Web”
Hubble Space Telescope – “The Cosmic Horseshoe” (2011), featured in “The Sun as Gravitational Lens: A Breakthrough Technology?”
Arthur Hacker – “Temptation of Sir Percival” (1894), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 16”
Joseph DeCamp – “Farewell” (c. 1901-02), featured in “Europe: Should I Just Go?”
Peder Mørk Mønsted – “Capri” (1884), featured in “Pacific Destiny”
NASA – “High Altitude Venus Operational Concept” (2014), featured in “Worldbuilding Cloud Cities on Venus”
“Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, page 180” by Arthur Rackham (1911), featured in “Starve the Beast: Still the Path to Smaller Government?”
John Martin – “The Fall of Babylon” (1831), featured in “Twenty Years of Terror”
An antique New Year’s postcard in Berlin, Germany (c. 1911), featured in “Beginning the Night of the Calendars”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Wave” (1889), featured in “Opry Tower: Going Goth?”
Hans Dahl – Siste stråler (1849-1937), featured in “Dare I Put the Max in Looksmaxing?” and “Tan and Blonde, But am I Fun?”
Wilhelm Kray – “Sea Creatures” (1828-1889), featured in “Upgrading the Life of Linda”, “Fun with Matrilineal Patriarchies”, and “My Future: California Beach Baby”
Adamas Nemesis – “Fly me to the moons” (2021)
NASA/JSC – “Humans Explore Martian Canyons at Dawn” (1989), featured in “Worldbuilding the First Mars Landing”
Luis Ricardo Falero – The Planet Venus (1882), featured in “The Strange New Worlds of ‘Warp Dawn'”
Thomas Cole – “The Course of Empire: The Savage State” (1836), featured in “Worldbuilding with Dunbar’s Number”
Adamas Nemesis – “Travel the Solar System at 1g” (2021)
Albert Bettannier – “The Black Stain” (1887), featured in “Redrawing the Map of Ukraine”
Henrika Šantel – “The Chemist” (1932), featured in “The Final Frontiers of the Periodic Table”
Cesare Maccari – “Cicero Denounces Catiline” (1889), featured in “Presidential Debate Reform: A Radical Proposal”
Thomas Cole – “The Ages of Life: Youth” (1842), featured in “Leveraged Stocks for long-term Investing”
Artur José de Sousa Loureiro – “Spirit of the New Moon” (1888), featured in “To Orbit by Space Gun” and “Worldbuilding the First Moon Landing”
Alfons Mucha – “The Arts: Painting” (1898), featured in “Toward More Visual Storytelling”
John William Godward – the Priestess (1893), featured in “Indistinguishable from Nature: Toward a ubiquitous Dark Web” and “God Bless Botox”
John Martin – “Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still” (1816), featured in “Let Us Move Beyond ‘Convincing Conservatives'”
Fritz Zuber-Bühler – Distant Thoughts (1822-96), featured in “Beginning the Adventure of writing a Novel”, “It’s my Life! Into the Next Year”, and “Great Christmas Blizzard: Now Writing!”
Francis Danby – “Shipwreck” (c. 1850), featured in “No Escape for the Cheap”
Adamas Nemesis – “Girls’ Night Out” (2021)
Ferdinand Richardt – “Steamwheeler on the Upper Mississippi” (1865), featured in “Riverboat Futurism à la Nouvelle-Orléans?”
Jacques-Louis David – “The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis” (1818), featured in “Becoming a Superior Man: Easier than You Think?”
Gustav Wertheimer – “The Kiss of the Siren” (1882), featuring “Making Diet and Exercise Easy and Fun”
George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1780s-90s), featured in “I Never Went to College…or High School”
Jean Delville – “Allegory of Music” (1923), featured in “A Music City for my Alternate History”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Ships in a Storm” (1860), featured in “A Pirate Story for Me, Savvy?”
Caspar David Friedrich – “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (1819-20), featured in “My Lunar Program After Wings of Fire”
Marcus Herzberg – “Tall buildings in Dubai at night” (2018), featured in “Gleaming Cities of the Eclipsed”
Paul DiMare – NASA Study for Manned Mars Mission (1989), featured in “Road Trains of Mars”
NASA – “Blue Rays, New Horizons’ High-Res Farewell to Pluto” (2015), featured in “Worldbuilding the Definition of Planet”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Les Oreades” (1902), featured in “Counting Bodies”
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun – “Portrait of Princess Karoline of Liechtenstein” (1793), featured in “A Second Sci-Fi Romance Novel is Coming Soon”, “Dear Future Me: New Sci-Fi Romance Novel Released”, and “Of Principalities That Are, and Nations That Never Were”
John Martin – “Pandemonium” (1841), featured in “Our Dystopian Moment: The Fruit of Our Dystopian Futures”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Youth Conquers Age” (1900), featured in “Dare I Join the Dark World?”