WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

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

🎨 Henry Fuseli

#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

"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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@SamanthaSLK1 You are very welcome!

🎨 Sam Heimer

"Out of silent mountains and storms of affliction, rusheth my soul into the valleys" (Nietzsche)

Richard Strauss's "An Alpine Symphony" premiered #OTD 1915 in Berlin

🎨 Loutherbourg "An Avalanche in the Alps" (1803)

#FaustianFriday

“... go stand by the gate of heaven till the Judgment Day..." (Lady Wilde)

Cursed the girl her dead lover, haunting her thrice, regretted it immediately, prayed she might be reunited with him, died within the year and found him waiting there

#superstitionsat #ofdarkandmacabre

@bjorn_stjerne All the way.