A number of David Bowie’s albums from the late 1970s feature photography that shows the influence of Egon Schiele’s gaunt, androgynous self-portraits. Included in the V&A’s blockbuster show, David Bowie Is, this charcoal drawing repeats the mime-like pose from “Heroes”, and shares Schiele’s use of heavy black lines. Photograph: PR
You’d be forgiven for thinking this “Green Man”, a fertility god made from leaves whose face grins from hundreds of pub signs and medieval church carvings, was the cover art for a British folk compilation. It’s actually the New York rockers’ new album. Photograph: PR
OTGAP has more in common with The Garden Of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch’s vision of a fallen Paradise drunk on excess, than Dorothy’s Technicolor daydream. Photograph: Allstar
This poster for Tom Cruise’s sci-fi epic is surely a direct lift from Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Wanderer. Rather than stare at the mists of oblivion like Friedrich’s rambler at the end of life’s journey, Cruise looks up at a challenge to be overcome. Photograph: Allstar
The arty fashion photographer duo’s self-portrait, from a Lanvin campaign (included in Taschen’s new luxury tome on their work), is very Death And The Maiden. It works a gender reversal on the theme popular since the Renaissance, where women embrace skeletal paramours. Photograph: PR
