WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

"Hekate Einodia, Trioditis, lovely dame, of earthly, watery, and celestial frame, sepulchral... pleased with dark ghosts that wander through the shade; Perseis, solitary goddess, hail!"

Orphic Hymn to Hecate, goddess of night & magic etc

#FolkloreThursday #31daysofHalloween

“The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a ... a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.” (Heinrich Heine)

#31daysofHalloween

@bjorn_stjerne Emma tried to introduce me the other day to a not-so-charming fellow called Monokuma... like that?

"All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature"

... and my, how he followed. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio #BOTD 1571

“…That’s my reward for all the trouble I gave myself not to submit an average piece of work…”

Arch-academic (with early Romantic slips) & Napoleon III's preferred painter Alexandre Cabanel #BOTD 1823

“There must be no smiling with Cruikshank. A man who does not laugh outright is a dullard, and has no heart" (Thackeray)

Caricaturist & book illustrator George Cruikshank #BOTD 1792 in London.

https://t.co/ZFUbAFKM92

"I begin to sing of Demeter, the holy goddess with the beautiful hair. And her daughter Persephone too. The one with the delicate ankles, whom Hades seized." (Homeric Hymn to Demeter)

#MythologyMonday

"In Ravenna lives today a girl of eighteen years of age... especially in her portraits as she barely glances at a person that she can portray better than anybody else" (Muzio Manfredi)

Italian painter of the Counter-Reformation Barbara Longhi #BOTD 1552 in Ravenna

“Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.” ("The Possessed")

#Dostoevskysaturday

“Now your work, all your work, should be regarded as a work of imagination, as art"

Master of the Golden Age of Illustration Arthur Rackham was born #OTD 1867 in London.

🎨 for Wagner's Rhinegold & Ring of the Nibelungs (1910)