WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”

Evelyn Waugh was born #OTD 1903 in London

🖼️ Tom Purvis, c 1930

"Or is it one risen from the dead, a vampire with a violin, who, if not the blood out of our hearts, at any rate sucks the gold out of our pockets? (Heinrich Heine)

“Devil’s violinist” Niccolò Paganini was born #OTD 1782 in Genoa.

🖼️ Hetty Krist

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

Pablo Picasso was born #OTD 1881 in Málaga

🖼️ "La Vie" (1903)

@bjorn_stjerne The goats that are invisible… well… to most have something to say, too

@bjorn_stjerne @Corvuscorax81 @FaustianFriday Still irritated by the yellow beret…

"I leave my brush at Azuma,
I go to the Land of the West on a journey
To view the famous sights there."

Utagawa Hiroshige, arguably the last great master of ukiyo-e, died #OTD 1858 in Edo to become highly influential posthumously in Western art

🖼️ from "Eight Views of Ōmi"

@MaeneSigne @kazerin Wait? What?

"Mabon the son of Modron spurred his steed and snatched his razor from him" (Mabinogion)

The salmon of Llyn Llyw knows where Mabon is held & helps King Arthur & his men to free Modron's son who plays a crucial part in the quest for the hand of fair Olwen

#FolkloreThursday

Captured in 1401, Klaus Störtebeker, leader of pirates known as "Vitalienbrüder", was granted a last wish: Who of his crew he touched after his head was cut off might go free. Beheaded Klaus reached 11 of his men before he was tripped up by the headsman

#mythologymonday

"... like another cursed Jonah..." ("Moby Dick")

A bringer o' bad luck on board a ship be called a Jonah 'n thrown into the sea, like the sailors o' Joppa did wit' the prophet on thar way t' Tarshish

#Superstitionsat #PirateLoreWeek

🖼️ print after Rubens, 1755