WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream
within a dream."

Edgar Allan #Poe was born #OTD 1809 in Boston

🎨 Gustave Doré (1884)

#WyrdWednesday

"Hard is the task, and rare," the queen rejoin'd,
Impending destinies in dreams to find" (Odyssey)

According to Homer, false prophetic dreams come to the sleeper through an ivory portal while true ones appear from one made of horn

🎨 J.A. Fitzgerald (1857)

#mythologymonday

"Fafner! Fafner! Thou dragon, wake!" (Wagner)

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1911)

#AppreciateADragonDay

“. . . no Art, nor any Leach's Might . . .
Can remedy such hurts; such hurts are hellish Pain.” (The Faerie Queene)

Edmund Spenser died #OTD 1599 in London

🎨 Frank C. Papé (1913)

@BrodenLouise Maxfield Parrish “Atlas” (1910)

@OGOMProject “June suns, you cannot store them
To warm the winter's cold,
The lad that hopes for heaven
Shall fill his mouth with mould.”
― A.E. Housman

🎨 Caspar David Friedrich "Cairn in the Snow" (1807)

#GothicChill

"Modernists excuse Zanin Boldini for a virtue denied most Academicians, an exuberance, vivacity and frank sensuousness" ("New York Times", 1933)

"Master of Swish" Giovanni Boldini was born #OTD 1842 in Ferrara

🎨 (probable) "Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt" (1904)

“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
(Kenneth Grahame "The Wind in the Willows")

🎨 Dave Unwin (1995)

#GothicAdvent #WyrdWednesday

"On Yule Eve the sonar-boar was led into the hall before the king; then people laid their hands on its bristles and made vows" (Heimskringla)

and maybe this old #Midwinter sacrifice is remembered by eating pig cookies or pig's heads on Christmas

#MythologyMonday #YuleFolklore

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”

Edvard Munch was born #OTD 1863 in Ådalsbruk

🎨 "Madonna" (1894)

#GothicAdvent