Those who know me well will know that I’ll crow on happily about my favorite writer, Jorge Luis Borges. The Paris Review’s Maria Bustillos pens an article on the erstwhile writer, his Argentine, friend and countryman, Surrealist painter Xul Solar, and their interest in the occult.
Painting
[Art] ‘Le Spectre de Banquo’ by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)

Though he is surely better-known for his etchings for the Holy Bible and Dante’s Divine Comedy, Gustave Doré also tried his hand at Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, to these stunning results.
[Painting] The Dream of Human Life by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564), The Dream of Human Life, circa 1533. Black chalk on laid paper. The Courtauld Gallery, London.
Among the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo has so many works of stunning, glorious quality that the quantity of such works is staggering. The file above shows a drawing made with black chalk of a human figure.
