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"Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?" (Shakespeare)

Since dragons and treasure go together so well - here are some uncommon dragon hoards by Iguanamouth. More on:

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#MythologyMonday

Your weekly Wunderkammer #SuperstitionSat safety advice

To prevent your selkie spouse from pining for the sea and wander the coastline, singing heart-wrenching laments, don't steal his or her seal skins!

Thank you. Spit thrice, touch cold iron and be safe.

@LifeIsAmazingUK They appear rather austere, his women, don't they?

"Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you, there are no words in it, just pictures"

Expressionist artist, poet, & playwright Oskar Kokoschka was born #OTD 1886 in Pöchlarn, Austria

🖼️ "Bride of the Wind" (Die Windsbraut, 1913)

"Spring-time and Venus come, and Venus' boy, The winged harbinger, steps on before, And hard on Zephyr's foot-prints Mother Flora, Sprinkling the ways before them, filleth all With colours and with odours excellent" (Lucretius)

🖼️ Botticelli "Primavera" c 1480

#WyrdWednesday

"There is in him a stunning, almost mad, absence of two major presences in modern art: theory and cities" (John Updike)

New England poet of the sea Winslow Homer was born #OTD 1836 in Boston

"As I was walkin' all alane
I heard twa corbies makin' mane
The 'tain unto the tither say, o
"Where shall we gang and dine the day, o
Where shall we gang and dine the day?"

"Twa Corbies" (two ravens) tells a grim tale of said birds feasting on a slain knight
#FairyTaleTuesday

‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,’
The shade replied,—
‘If you seek for Eldorado!’ (Edgar Allan Poe)

Dulac's take on Poe's moribund knight questing for fabled places

#MythologyMonday

“(He) was destined to introduce into the Russian landscape what it had always lacked—poetry as well as naturalness of execution“ (Ivan Kramskoi)

Russian lyrical landscape painter Fyodor Alexandrovich Vasilyev was born in Gatchina near St Petersburg #OTD 1850

🖼️ "Thaw" (1871)

"To feel what one sees, to give what one feels, is what defines the artist's life"

Symbolist painter, sculptor and graphic artist Max Klinger was born #OTD 1857 in Leipzig