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