1. Art vs. Scientific Illustration

2. Anatomy Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, 1503-06
The Mona Lisa,
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Alternative Name: Portrait of Lisa Gherardini
Currently housed at the Louvre, Paris, France.
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Quote from the Louvre Website: “This portrait was doubtless painted in Florence between 1503 and It is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo - hence the alternative title, La Gioconda. However, Leonardo seems to have taken the completed portrait to France rather than giving it to the person who commissioned it. It was eventually returned to Italy by Leonardo's student and heir Salai. It is not known how the painting came to be in François I's collection.”
A skull sectioned, 1489
Currently part of The Royal Collection, England
Online exhibition, Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
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Quote from the Website: “In this drawing (on the reverse of a sheet with another drawing of a sectioned skull), Leonardo studies the position of the facial cavities in relation to the surface features, and in the left margin, in his typical mirror-writing, he discusses the form and number of teeth in the human jaw.”
Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Bisected Skull, Leonardo da Vinci,1489

3. Astronomy Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Map of the Moon
The Starry Night, 1889
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Currently housed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Quote from the website: “Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression of van Gogh's response to nature.”
Map of the Moon
Source: NASA
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Caption: This map shows the locations of many spacecraft that have landed on the moon. Green triangles represent Apollo missions. Yellow are NASA Surveyor missions, and red are Russian Luna spacecraft. One of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's missions is to search for potential landing sites for future manned missions to the moon. Credit: National Space Science Data Center, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Map of the Moon

4. Astronomy Bubble Universe, Sally Bensusen, 1993
Artist: Sally Bensusen
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Quote from the website: “Bubble Universe,” colored pencil drawing showing a conceptual depiction of the superstructure of the universe according to one astronomical theory.
Location of the AEGIS galaxy survey Hubble mosaic on the sky.
Source: Lick Observatory, University of California
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Bubble Universe,
Sally Bensusen, 1993
Location of the AEGIS galaxy survey

5. Oceanography The Great Wave at Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1831-32
The Great Wave at Kanagawa From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji";
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Quote from the website: The turbulent wave seems to tower above the viewer, whereas the tiny stable pyramid of Mount Fuji sits in the distance. The eternal mountain is envisioned in a single moment frozen in time
Parts of a Wave
Source: Meted, COMET, UCAR
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The Great Wave at Kanagawa,
Katsushika Hokusai,
Parts of a wave

6. Zoology Sketch of bird, John Digby, 1980
Diary with sketch of bird, 1980
Artist: John Digby
Currently housed at the University of Delaware Library
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Quote from website: “Digby produced a series of fifty bird collages using paper from nineteenth century books and magazines. Some of these were used as illustrations for the Perishable Press edition of Birdsongs: Eleven New Poems by Toby Olson, published in 1980.”
Communities that live on a horseshoe crab, 2002
Artist: Sally Bensusen
Digital art showing the communities of animals that live on a horseshoe crab. Published in the June 2002  "Biomechanics" column of Natural History.
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Quote from the website: “Bensusen’s work is a regular feature of many scientific publications. She has been commissioned by the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Horticulture, Ranger Rick, The Nature Conservancy and more.”
Sketch of bird, John Digby, 1980
Communities that live on a horseshoe crab,
Sally Bensusen, 2002.