WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
(Joseph Conrad)

🎨 Thomas Moran

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“They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music" (C.S. Lewis)

🎨 Tiffany Bozic

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"Just indistinct enough to make the eye
Dream of surpassing beauty"

Irish Romantic painter Francis Danby was born #OTD 1793

🎨 "The Tombs of Molière and La Fontaine" (1831)

“There is a mortal amongst us,” they said. “Let us drown him.” (Lady Jane Wilde)

Ireland's fae folk has a downright malevolent streak and it often needs more than one supernatural agent to save a stricken human from their mischief

🎨 Bauer

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“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night" (Milton)

🎨 Henry Fuseli

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"I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love"

Edvard Munch's first solo exhibition opened #OTD 1892 in Berlin, only to be closed after just one week due to public protest

🎨 "Despair" (1892)

"And cried, homesick for his fair native lake:
"Rain, when will you fall? Thunder, when will you roll?"
I see that hapless bird, that strange and fatal myth"
(Baudelaire)

🎨 Jan Asselijn (c 1650)

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"but another crows
beneath the earth,
a soot-red cock,
in the halls of Hel" (Völuspá)

Three cocks crowing foretell the coming of the end of days, as prophesied to Odin by a völva in the Poetic Edda.

🎨 Gris Grimly

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"Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums" (Maurice Maeterlinck)

🎨 Pauhami

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"Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

Shakespeare's "Tempest" premiered #OTD 1611

🎨 Dulac

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