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The Persistence of Memory
painting by Salvador Dalí completed in 1931. Also known as Soft Watches or Melting Clocks, it is one of Dalí’s most famous pieces.
The Haywain Triptych
triptych by Jheronimus Bosch; Prado version
The Blind Girl
painting by John Everett Millais
The Great Masturbator
painting by Salvador Dali
Portrait of a Princess
painting by Pisanello in the Louvre
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
painting by Salvador Dahlí
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
painting by Frida Kahlo
The Hireling Shepherd
painting by William Holman Hunt
Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power
fresco by Pietro da Cortona
The Fall of the Titans
painting by Cornelis van Haarlem
Venus Verticordia
painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Hallucinogenic Toreador
painting by Salvador Dalí
The Holy Family with the Butterfly
print by Albrecht Dürer
Insects on stamps
emmet
heraldic animal
Et in Arcadia ego
painting by Guercino
Iran newspaper cockroach cartoon controversy
2006 controversy over a cartoon in Iran
The Spider's Feast
1912 ballet-pantomime
Discovery of Honey by Piero di Cosimo
painting by Piero di Cosimo
Extermination of Evil
set of five handing scrolls held at the Nara National Museum
beetlewing
thumb|Off-white cotton sheer ground with an embroidered design of a stylized floral spray: The vines are executed in gold foil strips, the small flowers in gilt sequins, and the leaves in beetle elytra.
thumb|Sternocera aequisignata แมลงทับ, a beetle used in Thailand for beetlewing decoration
thumb|Tamamushi Shrine, [[Horyu-ji, Nara Prefecture, Japan, Asuka Period, decorated with lacquer and oil painting on wood, gilt bronze plaques, and the iridescent wings of jewel beetle (Tamamushi)]]
Beetlewing, or beetlewing art, is an ancient craft technique using iridescent beetle wings practiced tradi
The Painter's Daughters chasing a Butterfly
painting by Thomas Gainsborough
Apparatus and Hand
painting by Salvador Dali
Fishing for Souls
painting by Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, Rijksmuseum
The Fly
poem
The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania
painting by Joseph Noel Paton