Images taken from painted works of Art.
- The '90s (Let's Party Like It's the '90s by Espinal Photography
)
- Abandon Ship (Naufrage du Titanic by Willy Stöwer)
- Absurdism (Sisyphus by Franz Stuck)
- Afterlife Tropes (The Ramparts of God's House by John Melhuish Strudwick)
- The All-American Boy (Building a Treehouse by Henry Hintermeister)
- Alternate Landmark History (Easter Island by Chris Foss)
- American Gothic Couple (American Gothic by Grant Wood)
- Anachronistic Animal (Portrait of the dog Busse by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl)
- Ancient Astronauts (by Boros Attila)
- Ancient Rome (Caracalla and Geta by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Angel Unaware (Angel at the Door by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale)
- Animated Tattoo (by Lauren K. Cannon)
- Arcadia (A Childhood Idyll by William Bouguereau)
- Archangel Gabriel (Annunciation by Anton Raphael Mengs)
- Archangel Michael (The Archangel Michael and the Rebel Angels by Giuseppe Cesari)
- The Armies of Heaven
- Art Imitates Art (top half: The First Thanksgiving 1621 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris)
- Artistic License Physics (Waterfall by M.C. Escher)
- At the Opera Tonight (At the Opera by Mary Cassat)
- Awesome Art (The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn)
- Awesome.Classical Mythology (Hercules and the Nemean Lion by Peter Paul Rubens)
- Awesome Art.Video Games (left-column:Fantastic Series by Zdzisław Beksiński)
- Babies Ever After (Our Princess by Carl Larsson)
- Back from the Dead (The Raising of Lazarus by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn)
- Bar Brawl (A Barroom Brawl by Anton Otto Fischer)
- The Bard (A Tale from the Decameron by John William Waterhouse)
- Barrier Maiden (Atlas by Boris Vallejo)
- Bizarrchitecture (Relativity by M.C. Escher)
- The Blind Leading the Blind (The Parable of the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
- Bling of War (Le Général d'Hautpoul à Cheval by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille)
- Bluebird of Happiness (Maiden Song by Emma Florence Harrison)
- Blue Blood (Call to Arms by Edmund Leighton)
- BodyHorror.Art (The Disasters of War by Francisco de Goya)
- Body Language (Unconsolable Grief by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi)
- Boulder Bludgeon (Cain Kills Abel by Giacomo Palma the Younger)
- Breaking and Bloodsucking (Croglin Vampire by Les Edwards)
- The Burlesque of Venus (top third: The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli)
- Burning the Ships (Hernan Cortes scuttling his fleet off the Veracruz coast, attributed to Miguel Gonzalez)
- Burn the Witch! (from The Lost Abbeys witch's wit beer, label art by Sean Dominguez)
- Byronic Hero (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich)
- The Cabin Boy (Cabin Boy by Thomas Rowlandson)
- Cain and Abel (detail from The Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck)
- Call That a Formation? (bottom half: 300 Spartan Warriors by Robert Basham)
- The Captivity Narrative (The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians by Charles Ferdinand Wimar)
- Card Sharp (The Cardsharps by Caravaggio)
- Cattle Drive (Cattle Crossing by Jan Hendrik Scheltema)
- Cattle Punk (Steampunk Cowboy by Renan Motta Lima)
- The Cavalier Years (The Wounded Cavalier by William Shakespeare Burton)
- Cavalry Officer (Hussar by Jan van Chelminski)
- Celestial Paragons and Archangels (The Seven Archangels in Adoration of the Trinity by Frederico Zuccari)
- The Chain of Harm (Anger Transference by Richard Sargent)
- Chandler's Law (edit of Jesus at the Door by Del Parson)
- Chariot Race (by Rubik Kocharian
)
- The Charmer (The Spider and the Fly by Eugen de Blaas)
- Chiaroscuro (The Denial of St. Peter by Gerrit van Honthorst)
- Child Eater (Saturn Devouring One of His Children by Peter Paul Rubens)
- Child Prodigy (Mozart by Thaddäus Helbling)
- Children Are Innocent (Garden of Angels by Laurie Snow Hein)
- A Child Shall Lead Them (Vox Populi or A Little Prince Likely in Time to Bless a Royal Throne by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Chivalric Romance (The Past by Thomas Cole)
- Chokepoint Geography (300 Spartans on Thursdays by Louis S. Glanzman)
- Circassian Beauty (A Circassian Girl by Henry Hall Pickersgill)
- Circuit Judge (Circuit Judge by Olaf Seltzer)
- The City (Der Besuch des Landesvaters/The Visit of the Country Father by Carl Spitzweg)
- Classical Music (collage)
- Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth
- Color-Coded Patrician (Mosaic of Emperor Justinian and his court, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, circa 547 AD.)
- ComicBook.Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Holiday in Duckburg by Carl Barks)
- Confessional (La Confessione by Giuseppe Molteni)
- The Conqueror (Mehmed II Entering Constantinople by Fausto Zonaro)
- Contrapposto Pose: (Bottom-left: Leda and the Swan by Leonardo da Vinci)
- Cosmic Egg (Cosmic Egg Theory by Carol Phillipson)
- Crazy Jealous Guy (Gianciotto Discovers Paolo and Francesca by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
- Creator.Hieronymus Bosch (The Hell panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch)
- Creator.Lawrence Alma-Tadema (A Coign of Vantage by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Creator.Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
- Creepy Changing Painting (Mona Lisa, La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci)
- Currency Tropes (The Moneylender and His Wife by Quentin Massys)
- The Cycle of Empires (top-left: Battle Scene with a Roman Army Besieging a Large City by Juan De La Corte; bottom: The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole)
- Damsel Errant (Una and the Red Cross Knight by George Frederic Watts)
- Dances and Balls (The Dance in Cupid's Alley by Arthur Rackham)
- Dead Artists Are Better (The Skeleton Painter by James Ensor)
- Death and the Maiden (Death and the Maiden by Adolf Hering)
- Death by Childbirth (The Birth of Benjamin and the Death of Rachel by Domenico Chiesura)
- Death by Irony
- Death Is Dramatic (Lamentation over the Dead Christ by Sandro Botticelli)
- Death Tropes (Witness My Act and Seal by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Den of Iniquity (A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth)
- Dining in the Buff (Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet)
- Dirty Old Monk (A Monk and a Nun by Cornelis van Haarlem)
- Discord Tropes (War (The First Discord)) by De Scott Evans
- Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe (The Red Beret (Dog) by Dan Craig)
- Divine Date (Cupid and Psyche by Benjamin West)
- Divine Right of Kings (Louis XIV Dressed In Roman Style by Pierre Mignard)
- Don't Fear The Reaper (Angel of Death by Evelyn De Morgan)
- The Dragonslayer (St. George and the Dragon by Girard Master)
- Dramatic Sit-Down (Depressed Man by Vincent Willem van Gogh)
- Dream Weaver (Bubble Blower by Josephine Wall
)
- Droit du Seigneur (Le Droit du Seigneur by Vasily Polenov)
- The Drunken Sailor (wood engraving, American, late 19th century)
- Eagleland (From Concord to Tranquility by Norman Rockwell)
- Earth Mother (Abundantia by Peter Paul Rubens)
- Eerily Out-of-Place Object (Big Ben by Marksart)
- Elders (The Eve of Peace by George Frederic Watts)
- Electronic Telepathy (Silent Warrior by Sam R. Kennedy)
- Embarrassing Tattoo (The Tattoo Artist by Norman Rockwell)
- The Emperor (Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
- English Rose (Girl With Lilac by Albert Henry Collings)
- Evil Lawyer Joke (Counsel Approaching Bench by Jeff Leedy)
- Eye Motifs (Jellyfish Eyes by Takashi Murakami)
- Faerie Court (Arrival of the King and Queen of Fairyland by E. Stuart Hardy)
- Fainting (A Delightful Waltz by John Brandard)
- Family Tropes (The Royal Family in 1846 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter)
- Fanservice with a Smile (Diner Waitress or Diner Girl by Greg Hildebrandt)
- Finish Him! (Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme)
- First Kiss (Cupid and Psyche as Children by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
- Fixing the Game (Dogs Playing Poker Waterloo by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge)
- Fleur de Lis (Maria de' Medici (1573-1642), Queen of France since 1600 by Frans Pourbus the Younger)
- Flower Motifs (Spring or våren by Carl Larsson)
- Fluffy Cloud Heaven (Heaven's Gate by Danny Hahlbohm
)
- Flying Dutchman (The Flying Dutchman by Howard Pyle)
- Foregone Conclusion (Titanic by Gordon Johnson)
- Forging Scene (The Forge of Vulcan by Luca Giordano)
- Forgiveness (The Return of the Prodigal Son or Le retour de l'enfant prodigue by James Tissot)
- Forty-Niner (Colorado Gold Rush 1859 by Alfredo Rodríguez)
- Franchise.Donald Duck (Lavender and Old Lace by Carl Barks)
- Friendship Tropes (Horae Serenae by Sir Edward John Poynter)
- Full-Frontal Assault (by Angus McBride)
- Fusion Dance (Fusion ya!! by Alexandre Deviers/Pandaluna)
- The Gambling Addict (The Hazard Room by Thomas Rowlandson)
- Garden of Love (Herzengeheimnis by Ludwig Knoefel)
- Gender-Blending Tropes (Louis Joseph Xavier by Marc Nattier)
- Ghibli Hills (The Glen by Maxfield Parrish)
- Giant Squid (by Pierre Dénys de Montfort)
- God (The Four and Twenty Elders Casting Their Crowns Before the Divine Throne by William Blake)
- God Couple (Zeus and Hera, inspired by The Presentation of the Portrait [detail] from the Marie de' Medici Cycle by Peter Paul Rubens)
- God in Human Form (Jesus & Krishna by EDDANIMA
)
- God Is Good (The Creation of the Animals by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
- Good Samaritan (The Good Samaritan by Joseph Brickey)
- Good Wings, Evil Wings (variation on The Archangel Michael by Guido Reni)
- Gorgeous Greek (Helen of Troy by Evelyn de Morgan)
- Götterdämmerung (Valhalla in Flames by Max Brückner)
- Grandpa God (Creation of Adam by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
- Guardian Angel (Guardian Angel and Children Crossing Bridge by Lindberg Heilige Schutzengel)
- Gulliver Tie-Down (Gulliver in Lilliput by Chris Beatrice
)
- Hanover-Stuart Wars (The Battle of Culloden by David Morier, 1746)
- Happiness Tropes (A Birthday by Emma Florence Harrison)
- Heat Wave (Heat Wave by Carl Barks)
- Heaven (Ascension of Christ by Dosso Dossi)
- Heaven Above (The Temptation of Christ by the Devil by Félix Joseph Barrias)
- The High Queen (Queen Victoria by George Hayter)
- Hollywood Drowning (Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein)
- Holy Burns Evil (Dracula: The Cross #69 by Greg Hildebrandt)
- Horned Humanoid (Horned God's Daughter by *michalivan)
- Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Four Horsemen of Apocalypse by Viktor Vasnetsov)
- Hot God (Les Liens du désir by Luis Royo)
- Hot Librarian (Quiet Please Librarian by Richie Fahey)
- Hula and Luaus (Aloha by Kerne Erickson)
- Humans Are Bastards (Dante and Virgil in Hell by William Bouguereau)
- I Kiss Your Hand (Ask Me No More by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Impressionism (left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet, Bal du moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Recolte des Foins, Eragny by Camille Pissarro, Basket of Apples by Paul Cezanne, The Star by Edgar Degas, Tea by Berthe Morisot)
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness (The Temptation of Christ by Ary Scheffer)
- Indian Maiden (Peace by Lee Bogle)
- Industrial Ghetto (Sheffield, England, 1884)
- The Ingenue (The Ingenue by Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
- Injury Tropes (The Order of Release by Sir John Everett Milais)
- It Came from the Fridge (Expired by Jessica Lanan)
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One (Christ Carrying the Cross by Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto)
- Judgement of Paris (The Judgment of Paris by Jacques Wagrez)
- Judgment of Solomon (Fresco in Pilgrimage church of Frauenberg, Austria)
- Judgement of the Dead: (The Last Judgement by Viktor Vasnetsov)
- Administrivia.Just A Face And A Caption (3rd, Italian Sacred Heart by Heiliges Abendmahl Zabateri)
- Just for Fun.Anaprotestantism (1st image: The Battle of Vienna, after 1683 by Pauwel Casteels)
- Just for Fun.Anaprotestantism (2nd image: Christ & Young Women, Mormon Art)
- Kangaroo Court (by Scott Page
)
- Knight Errant (The White Knight by Walter Crane)
- Knighting (The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Lady and Knight (A Knight and His Lady by William G. Mackenzie)
- The Lady's Favour (God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Last Kiss (The Meeting on Turret Stairs by Frederick William Burton
)
- "Leave Your Quest" Test (Ulysse et Calypso by N.C. Wyeth)
- Legion of Lost Souls (by Peter Dennis)
- Let's Duet (Duet by Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen)
- Light Is Good (A Pilgrim by Arild Rosenkrantz
)
- Literature.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane by John Quidor)
- Literature.Quo Vadis (Domine quo vadis? by Annibale Carracci)
- Literature.Rainbow Bridge (Rainbow Bridge by Ginger Jamerson)
- Lonely Funeral (The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer)
- Looks Like Jesus (Portrait of King Charles I, National Portrait Gallery, unknown artist)
- Love Goddess (Eros by Jacques Clément Wagrez)
- Love Imbues Life (Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Léon Gérôme)
- Lover and Beloved (David och Saul by Julius Kronberg)
- Loyal Animal Companion (Una and the Lion by Briton Rivière)
- Macho Masochism (Mucius Scaevola Before Porsenna by Peter Paul Rubens and van Dyck)
- Madonna Archetype (Charity by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
- Made a Slave (Captive Andromache by Frederick Leighton)
- Magical Barefooter (The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse)
- Magic Carpet (Riding a Flying Carpet by Viktor Vasnetsov)
- The Man Is Sticking It to the Man (Destroy Capitalism by Banksy)
- Mars Media (Life on Mars by Ivan Onnellinen)
- Matron Chaperone (A Stolen Interview by Edmund Blair Leighton)
- Masquerade Ball (The masked ball by Georges Jules Victor Clairin)
- Meaningful Funeral (Funeral March by Charles Carol Coleman)
- Medicine Show (The Snake Oil Salesman by Morgan Weistling)
- Messianic Archetype (The Transfiguration by Carl Heinrich Bloch)
- Midnight Snack (Midnight Snack by C.F. Payne)
- Mind Screw (Time Transfixed or La Durée poignardée by René Magritte)
- Moral Dilemma (Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder)
- The Muse (Artist and Muse by Jacek Malczewski)
- Music Soothes the Savage Beast (Orpheus by Tadeusz Styka)
- Music Tropes (The Music of a Bygone Age by John Melhuish Strudwick)
- Mystery Cult (A fresco of the rite of the goddess Isis found in Herculaneum)
- Myth.King Arthur (King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler)
- Myth.Celtic Mythology (The Children of Lir by Jim Fitzpatrick)
- Myth.Classical Mythology (The Twelve Olympians by Nicolas-André Monsiau)
- Myth.Lilith (Lilith by John Collier)
- Myth.Norse Mythology (Thor's Fight with the Giants by Mårten Eskil Winge)
- Myth.Paul Bunyan (Dug the Grand Canyon When He Dragged His Axe Behind Him by Ron Borresen)
- Myth.Saint George (St. George Killing the Dragon by Bernat Martorell)
- Myth.The Lady of the Lake (Lady of the Lake by Diana Van Damme)
- Narcissist (Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse)
- Nice Job Breaking It, Herod (Massacre of the Innocents by Giotto)
- "Nighthawks" Shot (top half: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper)
- NightmareFuel.Art (Poltergeist II by H. R. Giger)
- NightmareFuel.Classical Mythology (Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco de Goya)
- Noble Savage (Painting of Native American by N.C. Wyeth)
- Offered the Crown (Battle of Guadalete by Salvador Martinez Cubells)
- Older Than Dirt (Magdalenian painting in Lascaux Cave, c. 17,000 BCE)
- Older Than Feudalism (Ancient Roman Floor mosaic at the Baths of Musiciolus
in Ostia)
- Older Than Steam (Der Gaukler by Hieronymus Bosch)
- Open Shirt Taunt (The Execution of Marshal Ney by Édouard Armand Dumaresq)
- The Ophelia (Ophelia by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret)
- Orientalism (A Royal Palace in Morocco by Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant)
- OurAngelsAreDifferent.The Bible (Archangel Michael by Darko Topalski)
- Our Sirens Are Different (The Sirens and Ulysses by William Etty)
- Outliving One's Offspring (Death of the Pharaoh's First Born Son by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema)
- Out-of-Character Moment (Expulsion of the Money-Changers from the Temple by Giotto di Bondone)
- Painters (Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood by John Singer Sargent)
- Paintings (Vincent van Gogh palette)
- Paint the Index Red (Untitled (Red) by Mark Rothko)
- Paper-Thin Disguise (Little Red Riding Hood by Scott Gustafson)
- Parasol of Prettiness (Oriental Girl with Parasol by Marty Noble)
- Pardo Push (Pardo's Push by S.W. Ferguson)
- The Parent Trope (Queen Blanka by Albert Edelfelt)
- Past Experience Nightmare (Ivan the Terrible and the Souls of His Victims by Mikhail Clodt)
- Patron Saint (Wilton Diptych [left panel], unknown artist, original in the National Gallery, London)
- Pimped-Out Dress (Empress Elisabeth of Austria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
- Pimped-Out Dress.Real Life (Portrait of Elizabeth of Austria, Queen consort of Charles IX of France by Joris van der Straeten [Georges van der Straeten, Jorge de la Rúa or Gregorio de Gant])
- The Pioneer (I Shall Never Forget the Sight... by N. C. Wyeth)
- Pirate (Captain Sam Bellamy and the Whydah by Don Maitz)
- Pocket Dimension (art by Dan LuVisi
)
- Pooled Funds (Sport of Tycoons by Carl Barks)
- Postmodernism (La Trahison des images by René Magritte)
- Pre-Climax Climax (When the World Ends by Amanda Rene Bussell)
- Proper Lady (A Lady with a Parasol Showing How to Make a Strawberry Barrel by Percy Tarrant)
- Prospector (The Old Prospector by Alfredo Rodríguez)
- Public Domain Artifact (bottom-right: The Golden Fleece Dream by William Prosser)
- Putto (top: The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel; middle: Charity by William-Adolphe Bouguereau; bottom: Putti Making Music by François Boucher)
- Pygmalion Plot (Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Léon Gérôme)
- Racing the Train (Porsche/Mille Miglia by James Dugdale)
- Rain Dance (Rain Dance by Tom Phillips)
- "Reading Is Cool" Aesop (Boy Reading Adventure Story by Norman Rockwell)
- Reclining Venus (top third: Sleeping Venus by Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; middle third: The Nude Maja by Francisco Goya; bottom third: Odalisque by Jules Joseph Lefebvre)
- Religious Robot (by Sunflowerman
)
- Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain (Warning: Zombie Infestation by Doug P'Gosh)
- Rescued from the Underworld (Orpheus Tries to Rescue His Wife Eurydice from the Underworld But He Mustn't Look Back as They Go by Briout)
- Resurrection Tropes (The Resurrection by Carl Heinrich Bloch)
- Revenge (The Day the Chicken Fought Back by Kelly Hutchison)
- The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified (Liberty Leading the People by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix)
- Revolving Door Revolution (by Pawel Kuczynski)
- Riddle of the Sphinx (Oedipus and the Sphinx of Thebes, c. 470 BCE, by the "Oedipus Painter")
- Rogue Juror (The Jury Room by Norman Rockwell)
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment (1st image: Paganini by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix)
- Rouge Angles of Satin (top half)
- Royal Blood (Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna by Laurits Tuxen)
- Royally Screwed Up (König Karl II. von Spanien (1661-1700) by Juan Carreño de Miranda)
- Royalty and Nobility Tropes (Portrait of Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811-1890), Queen consort of Prussia by Franz Xaver Winterhalter)
- Rule of Symbolism (Vanitas by Pieter Claesz)
- Ruling Couple (Catholic Monarchs Administering Justice, Victor Manzano y Mejorada)
- Sad Clown (Old Sadface, Craft Master paint-by-number painting)
- Sadness Tropes (All Souls' Day by William Bouguereau)
- Samba (Roda de Samba by Carybé)
- The Savage Indian (The Death of Jane McCrea by John Vanderlyn)
- Scullery Maid (A Scully Maid Preparing a Chicken by Williem Joseph Laquy)
- Second Coming (The Second Coming by Harry Anderson)
- Seppuku (Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Kunikazu Utagawa)
- Serenade Your Lover (The Serenade by Federico Andreotti)
- Seven Heavenly Virtues (fresco at the Palazzo Pubblico
, Siena, Tuscany, Italy)
- Sexbot (art by Hajime Sorayama)
- Shoe Shine, Mister? (Shoeshine Boy by Karl Witkowski)
- Shot at Dawn (The Third of May 1808 by Francisco de Goya)
- Sibling Rivalry (She's My Girl by J.C. Leyendecker)
- Sirens Are Mermaids (Siren's Lament by Anne Stokes)
- Sistine Steal (The Immaculate Jim by Dave Hulteen)
- Slain in Their Sleep (Jael and Sisera by James Northcote)
- Sleep Paralysis Creature (Incubus by Carolyn Arcabascio)
- Smile Tropes (Brita and I by Carl Larssen)
- Snake Oil Salesman (Rural America: Traveling Salesman of "Cure-All" Tonic, unknown artist, 1940s advert; original in the Peter Newark American Pictures)
- Social Ornithopod (Iguanodon Herd by Douglas Henderson)
- Socialist Realism (The First Tractor by Vladimir Krikhatsky)
- Soiled City on a Hill (The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin)
- Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying (Elephant by Jacob van Maerlant)
- Son of Trope, Daughter of Index (Penelope Unravelling Her Web by Lamp Light, Joseph Wright of Derby)
- Species-Specific Afterlife (All Dogs Go To Heaven 4 by Jim Warren)
- Spooky Painting (The Hands Resist Him by Bill Stoneham)
- Standing Between the Enemies (The Intervention of the Sabine Women by Jacques-Louis David)
- Star-Crossed Lovers (tanabata4 by Yuko Hamasaki)
- Starving Artist (The Poor Poet by Carl Spitzweg)
- A Storm Is Coming (The Storm or L'Orage by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
- Street Urchin (Tokai by Rafiqun Nabi)
- The Strongman (Louis Cyr, Strongest Man on Earth, 1898 vintage poster)
- Summoning Ritual (Tiresias Appears to Ulysses During the Sacrificin by Henry Fuseli)
- Surrealism (Indefinite Divisibility by Yves Tanguy)
- Survivor Guilt (Reflections by Lee Teeter
)
- Swallowed Whole (Jonah and the Whale by Pieter Lastman)
- Sweetness Aversion (by Lisa Frank)
- Swing Low, Sweet Harriet (The Swing by Fragonard)
- Sword of Damocles (The Sword of Damocles by Richard Westall)
- Symbolic Wings (Husaria's Attack by Aleksander Orłowski)
- Tank Goodness (Landkreuzer P-1000 Ratte by Ivan Troitsky
)
- Tearful Smile (Crying Girl by Roy Lichtenstein)
- Things That Go "Bump" in the Night (Bogeyman by Michael Whelan)
- Thousand-Yard Stare (The 2000 Yard Stare by Thomas Lea)
- The Three Faces of Adam (The Allegory of Time Governed by Prudence by Titian)
- Time Crash (Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion by Salvador Dalí)
- Time Tropes (Three Curious Cats by Arthur Heyer)
- Top God (The Olympus by Luigi Sabatelli)
- Town with a Dark Secret (by Neko Pilarcik)
- Tragic Bromance (Orvar-Odd and Hjalmar Bid Each Other Farewell by Mårten Eskil Winge)
- Trojan Horse (Le Cheval de Troie by Henri-Paul Motte)
- Troll (Cybertroll by LemonArt)
- Tropes of Innocence (Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent)
- Underwater Base (from The Venus Project
)
- Underwater City (Underwater Cities by Kenneth Fagg)
- Unicorns Prefer Virgins (A Virgin with a Unicorn, by Domenico Zampieri)
- Unrequited Tragic Maiden (The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse)
- UsefulNotes.Alchemy (Der Alchemist by Joseph Leopold Ratinckx)
- UsefulNotes.Alexander the Great (Alexander and Porus by Charles Le Brun)
- UsefulNotes.Barbary Coast Wars (Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the Harbor of Tripoli by Edward Moran, 1897)
- UsefulNotes.Battle Of Lepanto (The Battle of Lepanto (7th October 1571), Italian School)
- UsefulNotes.Christmas in America (Merry Christmas, Granny by Norman Rockwell)
- UsefulNotes.Cossacks (Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire by Ilya Repin)
- UsefulNotes.French Wars Of Religion (Henri IV à la bataille d'Arques, 21 septembre 1589, artist unknown)
- UsefulNotes.Germanic Wars (Battle of the Teutoburg Forest - Furor Teutonicus by Paja Jovanović, 1889)
- Indian Rebellion (Lieutenant William Alexander Kerr, 24th Bombay Native Infantry, winning the Victoria Cross near Kolapore, July 1857 by Chevalier Louis-William Desanges, circa 1859)
- UsefulNotes.Ireland (2nd image: [Brian Cowen nude] by Conor Casby)
- UsefulNotes.Jesus
- UsefulNotes.Joan of Arc (Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
- UsefulNotes.Napoleon Bonaparte (The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David)
- UsefulNotes.Orthodox Christianity (Jesus Christ Pantocrator [detail from deesis mosaic] from Hagia Sophia)
- UsefulNotes.Sapphism (Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene by Simeon Solomon)
- UsefulNotes.Siege Of Vienna (The Turkish Siege of Vienna, unknown artist, original in the Vienna Museum)
- The Chincha Islands War (An artist's depiction of the battle of Callao, artist unknown, 1867)
- UsefulNotes.The Crusades (Procession of Crusaders Around Jerusalem by Jean-Victor Schnetz)
- UsefulNotes.The Delaware (Penn's Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West)
- UsefulNotes.The French Revolution (Storming of the Bastille and Arrest of the Governor M. de Launay, July 14, 1789., Museum of the History of France, unknown artist)
- UsefulNotes.The Knights Hospitallers (Portrait of Knight of Malta by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)
- UsefulNotes.The Pope (St. Lawrence Receiving the Treasures of the Church from St. Sixtus [detail] by Fra Angelico)
- UsefulNotes.The Protestant Reformation (Luther Hammers His 95 Theses To The Door by Ferdinand Pauwels)
- UsefulNotes.The River War (Death of General Gordon at Khartoum by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris)
- The Second Boer War (The Relief of Ladysmith, 1900 by John Henry Frederick Bacon, 1900)
- UsefulNotes.The Seventh Cavalry (Charge Of The Seventh Cavalry by Frank Feller)
- UsefulNotes.The Spanish Inquisition (The Inquisition Tribunal or Auto de fe de la Inquisición by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes)
- UsefulNotes.Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs (untitled paleoart by James Havens)
- UsefulNotes.The Teutonic Knights (The Teutonic's Charge at the Lake Peipus by Guiseppe Rava)
- UsefulNotes.Thanksgiving Day (Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell)
- UsefulNotes.The Thirteen American Colonies (Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton)
- UsefulNotes.Thirty Years War (Wallenstein: A Scene of the Thirty Years' War by Ernest Crofts)
- UsefulNotes.Timur the Lame (Sultan Bayezid imprisoned by Timur by Stanisław Chlebowski)
- UsefulNotes.Tsarist Russia (Tzar Mikhail Fedorovich Holding Council with the Boyars in His Royal Chamber by Andrei Ryabushkin)
- War of the Spanish Succession (The Battle of Ramillies, 23 May 1706. The 16th Foot charging French infantry by Richard Simkin, 1900)
- Utopia (The Prologue and the Promise by Robert McCall)
- Valkyries (The Ride of the Valkyries by William T. Maud)
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs (The Storm Worsens and Wotan Arrives by Arthur Rackham)
- Viking Funeral (The Funeral of a Viking by Frank B. Dicksee)
- Walk, Don't Swim (Underwater March by Francesco Francavilla)
- Walk on Water (painting of Peter and Jesus on the Sea of Galilee, Greek Catholic Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Hungary, unknown artist)
- Walk the Plank (Walking the Plank by Howard Pyle)
- Wallet Moths (by Franz Scholz
)
- Wandering Minstrel (Young Man Playing the Lute by Frans Hals)
- War Is Glorious (Le Trophée by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille)
- Warrior Prince (Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales (1330-76), "The Black Prince" by Benjamin Burnell)
- We Help the Helpless (The Rescue by Arthur Hughes)
- What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs? (Departure of Winged Ship by Vladimir Kush)
- White Stallion (Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David)
- The Wild Hunt (Åsgårdsreien by Peter Nicolai Arbo)
- The Wild West (Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world, poster circa 1898)
- William Telling (Anonymous artist, lithograph from picturebook circa 1850)
- Wine Is Classy (Self portrait with a glass of wine by Arnold Böcklin)
- Wooden Ships and Iron Men (Battle of Trafalgar by Justin Sweet)
- World War II.War in Asia and the Pacific (3rd image: The Battle of Midway by Howard David Johnson)
- Working-Class Werewolves
- Would Hurt a Child (Medea by Artemisia Gentileschi)