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Public-domain oil paintings used as section backdrops, listed by page. Blog entries are unique works across all posts.

  • The Great Day of His Wrath (1851), John Martin
  • The Architect's Dream (1840), Thomas Cole
  • Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842), J. M. W. Turner
  • The Voyage of Life: Manhood (1842), Thomas Cole
  • Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653), Rembrandt
  • The Sower (1850), Jean-François Millet
  • Impression, Sunrise (1872), Claude Monet
  • The Stages of Life (1835), Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Deluge (1834), John Martin
  • The Astronomer (c. 1668), Johannes Vermeer
  • The Ninth Wave (1850), Ivan Aivazovsky
  • The Gulf Stream (1899), Winslow Homer
  • A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery (c. 1766), Joseph Wright of Derby
  • Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842), J. M. W. Turner
  • Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648), Claude Lorrain
  • Seaport at Sunrise (1674), Claude Lorrain
  • The Tower of Babel (c. 1563), Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles (1919), William Orpen
  • Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1833–1834), Edward Hicks
  • The Congress of Berlin (1881), Anton von Werner
  • Woman Holding a Balance (c. 1664), Johannes Vermeer
  • The Architect's Dream (1840), Thomas Cole
  • Seaport at Sunrise (1674), Claude Lorrain
  • The Sower (1850), Jean-François Millet
  • Plato and Aristotle (detail from The School of Athens) (1509–1511), Raphael
  • The School of Athens (1509–1511), Raphael
  • The Astronomer (c. 1668), Johannes Vermeer
  • The Sower (1850), Jean-François Millet
  • Declaration of Independence (1819), John Trumbull
  • The Architect's Dream (1840), Thomas Cole
  • The Ambassadors (1533), Hans Holbein the Younger
  • The Consummation of Empire (1836), Thomas Cole
  • Declaration of Independence (1819), John Trumbull
  • Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), Frederic Edwin Church
  • Impression, Sunrise (1872), Claude Monet
  • The Stages of Life (1835), Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Congress of Berlin (1881), Anton von Werner
  • The Oxbow (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Consummation of Empire (1836), Thomas Cole
  • Declaration of Independence (1819), John Trumbull
  • The Stages of Life (1835), Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles (1919), William Orpen
  • The Congress of Berlin (1881), Anton von Werner
  • The Great Day of His Wrath (1851), John Martin
  • An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
  • Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), Frederic Edwin Church
  • Gassed (1919), John Singer Sargent
  • The Ninth Wave (1850), Ivan Aivazovsky
  • Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648), Claude Lorrain
  • The Consummation of Empire (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Heart of the Andes (1859), Frederic Edwin Church
  • The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State (1836), Thomas Cole
  • Philosopher in Meditation (1632), Rembrandt
  • Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648), Claude Lorrain
  • Seaport at Sunrise (1674), Claude Lorrain
  • The Night Watch (1642), Rembrandt
  • The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600), Caravaggio
  • Declaration of Independence (1819), John Trumbull
  • The Sower (1850), Jean-François Millet
  • The Sower (1850), Jean-François Millet
  • The Night Watch (1642), Rembrandt
  • The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600), Caravaggio
  • Declaration of Independence (1819), John Trumbull
  • The Stages of Life (1835), Caspar David Friedrich
  • Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–1881), Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • The Sower (1850), Jean-François Millet
  • The Night Watch (1642), Rembrandt
  • Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648), Claude Lorrain
  • Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–1881), Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Seaport at Sunrise (1674), Claude Lorrain
  • The Night Watch (1642), Rembrandt
  • Impression, Sunrise (1872), Claude Monet
  • The Astronomer (c. 1668), Johannes Vermeer
  • The Librarian (c. 1566), Giuseppe Arcimboldo
  • The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles (1919), William Orpen
  • Philosopher in Meditation (1632), Rembrandt
  • Plato and Aristotle (detail from The School of Athens) (1509–1511), Raphael
  • The School of Athens (1509–1511), Raphael
  • The Astronomer (c. 1668), Johannes Vermeer
  • Seaport at Sunrise (1674), Claude Lorrain
  • Philosopher in Meditation (1632), Rembrandt
  • Plato and Aristotle (detail from The School of Athens) (1509–1511), Raphael
  • The School of Athens (1509–1511), Raphael
  • Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648), Claude Lorrain
  • The Astronomer (c. 1668), Johannes Vermeer
  • The Geographer (c. 1669), Johannes Vermeer
  • Woman Holding a Balance (c. 1664), Johannes Vermeer
  • Impression, Sunrise (1872), Claude Monet
  • The Stages of Life (1835), Caspar David Friedrich
  • A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery (c. 1766), Joseph Wright of Derby
  • The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus (1771), Joseph Wright of Derby
  • Seaport at Sunrise (1674), Claude Lorrain
  • The Sower (1850), Jean-François Millet
  • Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653), Rembrandt
  • The Librarian (c. 1566), Giuseppe Arcimboldo
  • The Ninth Wave (1850), Ivan Aivazovsky
  • The Gulf Stream (1899), Winslow Homer
  • An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
  • Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842), J. M. W. Turner
  • Declaration of Independence (1819), John Trumbull
  • The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles (1919), William Orpen
  • Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–1881), Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • The Congress of Berlin (1881), Anton von Werner
  • The Ambassadors (1533), Hans Holbein the Younger
  • The Night Watch (1642), Rembrandt
  • Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868), Albert Bierstadt
  • The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863), Albert Bierstadt
  • Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1833–1834), Edward Hicks
  • The Course of Empire: Desolation (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1490–1510), Hieronymus Bosch
  • The Tower of Babel (c. 1563), Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1560), Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), Frederic Edwin Church
  • The Great Day of His Wrath (1851), John Martin
  • The Deluge (1834), John Martin
  • Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818), Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Voyage of Life: Youth (1842), Thomas Cole
  • The Starry Night (1889), Vincent van Gogh
  • A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), Georges Seurat
  • The Voyage of Life: Manhood (1842), Thomas Cole
  • View of Toledo (c. 1599–1600), El Greco
  • The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600), Caravaggio
  • Plato and Aristotle (detail from The School of Athens) (1509–1511), Raphael
  • The Architect's Dream (1840), Thomas Cole
  • The Astronomer (c. 1668), Johannes Vermeer
  • The Librarian (c. 1566), Giuseppe Arcimboldo
  • The Stages of Life (1835), Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Geographer (c. 1669), Johannes Vermeer
  • An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby
  • A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery (c. 1766), Joseph Wright of Derby
  • The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus (1771), Joseph Wright of Derby
  • The Astronomer (c. 1668), Johannes Vermeer
  • The Consummation of Empire (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Architect's Dream (1840), Thomas Cole
  • Plato and Aristotle (detail from The School of Athens) (1509–1511), Raphael
  • Seaport at Sunrise (1674), Claude Lorrain
  • The Sower (1850), Jean-François Millet
  • Impression, Sunrise (1872), Claude Monet
  • The Consummation of Empire (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Architect's Dream (1840), Thomas Cole
  • The Oxbow (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The School of Athens (1509–1511), Raphael
  • Seaport at Sunrise (1674), Claude Lorrain
  • The Consummation of Empire (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Heart of the Andes (1859), Frederic Edwin Church
  • The Oxbow (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Oxbow (1836), Thomas Cole
  • The Consummation of Empire (1836), Thomas Cole
  • Young Woman with a Lute (c. 1662–1663), Johannes Vermeer
  • The Monk by the Sea (1808–1810), Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Angelus (1857–1859), Jean-François Millet
  • The Monk by the Sea (1808–1810), Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Monk by the Sea (1808–1810), Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Angelus (1857–1859), Jean-François Millet
  • View of Toledo (c. 1599–1600), El Greco
  • A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery (c. 1766), Joseph Wright of Derby