Images

Tanasee Bald viewed from the Courthouse Overlook, North Carolina, October 2016. Photograph by Thomson 200. Tanasee Bald is the mountain said to be the home of the giant Tsul'Kalu, the earth spirit who presided over hunting and hunting rituals...

Statue of Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Philadelphia.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), age 35, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison. Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

American poet Walt Whitman, photograph by George C. Cox, taken in New York, 1887. Restored by Adam Cuerden. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Wood engraving showing Bluebeard and his wife by Gustave Doré (1832-83). Bluebeard is a character from a French folktale. (National Library of France)

A 1940s photograph of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945).

A 1927 photograph of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945).

A 1903 photograph of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945).

Six Apostles, tempera on wood by Spanish (Oña) Painter, late 15th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The lapidation of Saint Stephen, oil on wood by Rembrandt, 1625. Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.