Artwork credits
Every painting and drawing here is a reproduction of a real historical work. Crops and fades are layout treatments only.
Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1664. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Young Girl Reading
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1769. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The superficial anatomy of the shoulder and neck
Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1510–11. Royal Collection, RCIN 919003 (recto).
Portrait of Luca Pacioli
Attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, 1495. Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife (Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze)
Jacques-Louis David, 1788. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery
Joseph Wright of Derby, c. 1766. Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
J. M. W. Turner, c. 1835. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne, c. 1890. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, discovers Phosphorus
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771. Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
Philosopher in Meditation
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632. Musée du Louvre.
Photograph by Sailko, licensed under CC BY 3.0. Edge cropped and resized for this website.
Flowers in a Vase
Rachel Ruysch, c. 1685. National Gallery, London.
Photograph by Sailko, licensed under CC BY 3.0. Frame removed, perspective adjusted and resized for this website.
Plato’s Symposium
Anselm Feuerbach, 1869. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
A Lady Writing
Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1653. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
A Reading from Homer
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Typefaces
Cormorant Garamond and Source Serif 4, used under the SIL Open Font License (Cormorant licence, Source Serif 4 licence).