automastigwma
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Jungjin Lee
Picta Poesis (1552) Barthélemy Aneau
Salvador Dali, Women Flowers, 1970
William Tarr - Sculpture, 1964
elk have such beautiful bone webs
Blued and gilded armor, Northern Italy, circa 1580-1600
from Peter Finer
The Legend of Rabenstein: Deserted (1877) - Samuel Read
The Dance of Death Anonymous - German 16th Century
The Adversary!; ‘Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched’ (Joseph Noel Paton, 1876)
Low stock on Tarot - there are only a handful of my tarot decks, the Flux Arcana, available! Whether you read tarot or just enjoy my art stuff, You can check it out in my web shop while supplies last! ❤️
Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends (1868) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Vampir Horror Roman - Karel Thole.
Lili Ország (1926-1978) — Labyrinth: House of Secrets (oil on fibreboard, 1977)
One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.
The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:
Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.
Oberhofen Castle, Switzerland by Venus_Doom
Basket hilted sword. Hilt is English, blade is from Solingen, Germany. Circa 1610
from The Burrell Collection, Glasgow
La visión del Coloseo. El último mártir
© Nona Limmen {Instagram / Webshop}
The Death of Orpheus (Henri-Léopold Lévy, c. 1870)
Giuseppe Lucini (Italian, 1770-1845) Atri d'un temple neoclassic, n.d. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
1967 Ferrari 330 P4
Parrying dagger, Germany, circa 1600
from The Louvre