Image: Images used on Découvertes Gallimard book covers

Description: Images used for the book covers of the French collection “Découvertes Gallimard” (UK edition: ‘New Horizons’; U.S. edition: “Abrams Discoveries”). Collage of 64 images for 64 books.
Title: Images used on Découvertes Gallimard book covers
Credit: Self-made from cropped versions of: Other images “Desert of Gizeh” by David Roberts The Third of May 1808 by Francisco de Goya Giuseppe Verdi “Astronomical Observations: the Moon” by Donato Creti Main temple at Tulum Map of the Pacific Appearance of the famous comet of 1811 Alexander the Great The capture of Cuauhtémoc Gold Digger On the Way Ballet – l’étoile by Edgar Degas Portrait of Huáscar The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David “Temple of the Earth” by Jean-Jacques Lequeu A miniature from “The Travels of Marco Polo” (Il Milione) The Flavian Amphitheatre (Coliseum) Temptation of St. Anthony by Joachim Patinir Portrait of Frédéric Chopin Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez Detail of Benoît-Édouard Loviot’s “Parthenon” Arthur Rimbaud Constantine IX Monomachos Ludwig van Beethoven The delimitation of new borders in Africa Fayum mummy portrait A miniature in Roman de Godefroy de Bouillon et de Saladin Empress Elisabeth of Austria Twin-tailed Siren or mermaid, illustration in Hortus Sanitatis Thomas Edward Lawrence Detail from the Gundestrup cauldron (Denmark) St. Mark in the surroundings of Sts. Kosma, Damiana, Rocha and Sebastian by Titian Ecce Homo by Antonio Ciseri Floor decoration, Saint John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta Housing Pilgrims, fresco located in the Oratory of the Buonomini The Umbrellas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Construction of the Tower of Babel, from the World Chronicle. Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels by David Teniers the Younger Victor Place and Gabriel Tranchand standing next to an Assyrian lamassu Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Historical Monument of the American Republic by Erastus Salisbury Field Detail (Berthe Morisot) of The Balcony by Édouard Manet Lazarus and the Rich Man’s Table by Gaspar van den Hoecke Portrait of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, after Jean-Marc Nattier The Ecstasy of Saint Catherine of Siena by Agostino Carracci Young Arthur pulling the Excalibur The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus by Joseph Wright of Derby Hecate, detail of Jupiter and Semele by Gustave Moreau Jeremiah or Ezra Holding a Scroll Fresco of a diver from the tomb of the diver in Paestum Legend of St. Francis, Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo by Giotto di Bondone Battle of Jena–Auerstedt by Horace Vernet The Sportsmen by Kazimir Malevich Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Main altar of the cathedral of Ascoli, polyptych, right outer panel: St. Paul by Carlo Crivelli Head of a dancer, Coptic textile Madonna of the Magnificat by Sandro Botticelli Portrait of Marie Antoinette painted in 1785 by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Kairos or The Angel of Justice by Francesco Salviati Emancipation of the serfs in 1861 Detail of a 16th-century miniature showing Arab astronomers from the Galata Observatory, founded by Sultan Suleiman Black apsaras, Ajanta Caves Golden-Locked Angel, 12th-century icon of Archangel Gabriel from Novgorod Portrait of Giacomo Casanova, attributed to Anton Raphael Mengs
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