WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

@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

@MaeneSigne But you already did...!

@bjorn_stjerne

“There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.”

Occultist author Dion Fortune was born #OTD 1890 in Llandudno

🎨 Rossetti "Damsel of the Sanct Grael" (1879)

#GothicAdvent

"Like a foam-topp’d waterspout
Cast down headlong in the sea,
She fell at last;
Pleasure past and anguish past,
Is it death or is it life?"

Christina Rossetti was born #OTD 1830 in London

🎨 Arthur Rackham "Goblin Market" (1933)

"Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?" (P.B. Shelley "To the Moon")

#BookWormSat