WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

"Like fire burns his blood!
...
Almost, it seems,
the woodbirds are speaking to me.
Is it a spell
that lies in the blood?" (Wagner)

Bathing in a slain dragon's blood does not only grant invulnerability but makes you understand the language of birds as well

#mythologymonday

@Moonpiglit @SuperstitionSat Yes. You'd better. This safety advice was brought to you by the Association of the Watchmaking Gnomes of Switzerland (AWGS). Buy a new clock. Stay safe.

“Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah —‘And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.’” (Herman Melville)

#FaustianFriday

“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.“ (Toast of José Rizal to Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo)

Academic artist Juan Luna was born in Badoc in the Philippines #OTD 1857

"If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
... O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Dash'd all to pieces." (Shakespeare, Tempest)

#MythologyMonday

"They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!’" (Keats)

Epitome of Victorian painting Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee died #OTD 1928 aged 74

"...they defiled...they begot giants and monsters...they begot, and, behold, all the earth was corrupted...with its blood and by the hand of...giant's which did not suffice for them and...and they were seeking to devour many" (Book of Giants)

#Faustianfriday

"I don’t see why I am supposed to paint beautiful females. Why, I don’t paint for courtesy’s sake or to make every randy fellow like it.”

Supreme Swiss symbolist Arnold Böcklin was born #OTD 1827 in Basel.

@AmandaBergloff @EnchantedEzine I have a distinct time zone advantage here, eh?

However, I left one for you!

"All my work is based to some extent on Japanese art..." (Vincent van Gogh)

Last great ukiyo-e master and major influencer of Western art Utagawa Hiroshige #DOTD 1858 in Edo