WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

“[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honours upon creatures of a day-to you, thief of fire, I speak” (Aeschylus)

#MythologyMonday - Hermes, Messenger of the Gods & Psychopomp

"He, who recognises in a piece of bread only the stomach cork, will feel sorry for not being able to paint the cow dung smell in his head of cattle as well."

Romantic history painter and Totentanz illustrator Alfred Rethel was born #OTD 1816 in Aachen.

“If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter", said ukiyo-e artist in Zen-like modesty Katsushika Hokusai, aged 88, on his deathbed, #OTD 1849 in Edo.

"The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself."

Arch-Romantic Caspar David Friedrich died #OTD 1840 in Dresden.

@OGOMProject Is #GothicSpring continued in May?

(🖼️ Maxmilián Pirner, "Fairy Funeral", 1888)

@CatrionaMacL Astral projection or keeping one tail's length distance this year...

@StaceyCalavera Tally ho!

@a_hideous Wouldn't file it under "good, clean fun", but yes. It is. For most.

(s.b. Gretchen on the Blocksberg in "Mama told you not to come")

"Spirit of contradiction! Lead! I'll follow straight!
'Twas wisely done, however, to repair
On May-night to the Brocken, and when there
By our own choice ourselves to isolate!" (Goethe)

Celebrating #Walpurgisnight with Harry Clarke's exquisite illustrations for "Faust" (1925)

“… he would have chosen some dream city of the Orient for his birthplace, a Persian princess for his mother, and an artist of the Ming Dynasty for his father”

#1001Nights imagery from the "Arabian Nights Man" Edmund Dulac for #fairytaletuesday

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