WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

@bjorn_stjerne @WlfInChpClthng And his steampunk imagery is just... ace!

"Then was the body of Baldr borne out on shipboard; and when his wife, Nanna the daughter of Nep, saw that, straightway her heart burst with grief, and she died; she was borne to the pyre, and fire was kindled" Prose Edda

🎨 Louis Moe "Balders Bålfærd" (1898)

#MythologyMonday

@P_J_Richards Absolutely... here's a personal favourite of mine - The Abbey in the Oakwood (1808–1810).

@offshoreodd Probably the first time since 1621 that members of the genus Meleagris have a Happy Thanksgiving as well...

@SuperstitionSat @AdamChronicles Can't beat a hearty goats' blood sacrifice to quieten the hungry, restless Greek dead on a Saturday afternoon, eh? Fun for the whole family and all.

Image is allegedly by Theodor Kittelsen, can't verify that with absolute certainty, though.

And one for @RGeirsson!

“One employs colours, but one paints with feeling."

And the modernists loved him for it 200 years later. French master of still life Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was born #OTD 1699 in Paris.

"And what does ridiculous mean? Isn't everyone constantly being or seeming ridiculous? Besides, nearly all clever people now are fearfully afraid of being ridiculous, and that makes them unhappy" (Brothers Karamazov)

#DostoevskySaturday

"‘O great Orgoglio, greatest under skye,
O hold thy mortall hand for ladies sake!
Hold for my sake, and doe him not to dye,
But vanquisht thine eternall bondslave make,
And me, thy worthy meed, unto thy leman take.’"(Spenser)

#31daysofHalloween

🎨 Frank C. Papé