A Mermaid
Painting by John William Waterhouse, completed in 1900,now in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Consulting the Oracle
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, showing a priestess using a mummified head, a tephra, as an oracle.
Witches at their Incantations
Painting by the Italian Baroque artist Salvator Rosa, completed in about 1646.
Gouache
Opaque watercolour in which the pigments are bound together by glue.
How They Met Themselves
Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which a couple in medieval costume are confronted by their doubles.
Tempera
Term applied to any paint in which the pigment is dissolved in water and mixed with an organic gum or glue.
Manchester Madonna
Unfinished tempera on panel painting by Michelangelo.
Fairy painting
Genre of art and illustration featuring small imaginary human-like creatures with magical powers, often with wings.
The Love Potion
Oil painting by the English artist Evelyn de Morgan, created in 1903.
Girls Running, Walberswick Pier
Oil on canvas painting by the English impressionist artist Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942).