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In this early nineteenth-century watercolor painting depicting a woman's body being dissected, Thomas Rowlandson explores early nineteenth-century attitudes about "resurrection men," that is, people who stole cadavers for anatomical research. The…

The painting Prometheus Bound by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens acts as a visual interpretation from the Greek Poet Aeschylus’s play of the same name; it depicts the titan Prometheus bound to a rock and being consumed by an eagle as punishment by…

Lynd Ward, the illustrator of this particular image, was an American wood carver and writer. He focused on wordless novels and used wood engravings to illustrate them. His black and white wood carvings were an excellent addition to the first ever…

Frankenstein's Monster first appeared as part of an Atlas Comics publication in September of 1953, and made his official debut in Marvel Comics after the purchase of Atlas Comics in August of 1969. Within the comics, the Monster’s background is the…