Ioanna Papadopoulouさんのイラストまとめ

Boadicea #illustration by A. S. Forrest

Boudicca was the queen of the British Iceni tribe. She led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. 
#WyrdWednesday #Celtic #Roman

Lucy Kemp-Welch and Her Pet Cock by Esther Borough Johnson. 1945

Esther was a student at the Herkomer's #art School where she met Lucy Kemp-Welch and her future husband, Ernest Borough Johnson.

#WomensArt #art #painting

Moses and the Brazen Serpent by Ford Madox Brown

This is a #sketch for a stained glass design, which I believe was never made, of an Old Testament story in which the Israelites are punished with a plague of poisonous snakes.

#ofdarkandmacabre #art

La Sirène by Armand Point, 1897

Point, referred as the only French Pre Raphaelite, was fascinated by the imagination and the symbolism of past times.
In this #painting he focuses his attention on only one siren riding a seahorse before encountering Odysseus.

#art

You've got a rare perch this time, said he' by Alice Bolingbroke Woodward, 1932
Alice Bolingbroke Woodward was one of the most prolific illustrators in early 20th century, known mainly for her children's literature #art and her scientific illustrations.
#WomensArt #illustration

Eating Flowers by Liz Grounds
According to the 1903 book "Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, And The Occult Sciences Of The World" good luck will ensue on your birthday if you eat primroses. Please note that the book is highly unreliable.
#SuperstitionSat #WomensArt

'Oh! Death will find me' by Christopher Le Brun, 1995-6

Inspired by Rupert Brooke's 1909 sonnet with the same name.

You can read it at https://t.co/i947NXlrIL

#ofdarkandmacabre #poetry #art #painting

Untitled (?) Samhain drawing by Leonora Carrington
#WyrdWednesday

Illustration of The Land of Counterpane (poem by Robert Louis Stevenson) by Jessie Willcox Smith

"I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane."
#BookWormSat #illustration #WomensArt

Ivan, the Terrible, visited by the ghosts of those he murdered by Baron Mikhail Petrovich Klodf van Jurgensburgh

Ivan was the grand Prince of Moscow and its first ruler who declared himself tsar of all Russia.

#WyrdWednesday