WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

“The adventures of Fra Diavolo have left a legendary reputation" (Victor Hugo)

Fra Diavolo, the devil's brother, legendary Italian robber chief turned guerrilla leader against Napoleon was brought to bay by Victor Hugo's father, of all the people.

#WyrdWednesday

@Kerria Difficult to find a favourite from Caravaggio, but here is one of mine.

@bjorn_stjerne

"And I told how I came from Ireland, which is of Europe, whereat the captain and all the sailors laughed, for they said, “There are no such places in all the land of dreams." (Lord Dunsany "Idle Days on the Yann")

🎨 Sidney Sime (1910)

#WyrdWednesday

"I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs" (Thoreau)

Two villages were drowned in the Red and the Black Bog of the Rhön Mountains for their sins. At night, one can see the village girls dance as will-o'-the-wisp on the moor

#SwampSunday #31DaysOfHalloween

"I saw pale kings, and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
Who cry'd—'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!'" (Keats)

🖼️ Frank Dicksee "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (1901)

#FaustianFriday #31DaysOfHalloween

“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