Olivia Claire Louise Newmanさんのイラストまとめ

Idun in Norse #Mythology is the goddess of fruit and immortality. She's said to hand out apples which grant immortal life.

#FairyTaleTuesday

English portraitist William Dobson died #OTD in 1646.

🎨Self portrait
🎨The Executioner with the Head of John the Baptist

#Art

In Celtic Mythology, the Otherworld is the afterlife of eternal peace and joy. It was said to reside underground, accessed by caves, mounds or the sea.

Delightful is the land beyond all dreams,
Fairer than aught thine eyes have ever seen.
(T. W. Rolleston)

#FolkloreThursday

They chain’d us each to a column stone,
And we were three—yet, each alone;
We could not move a single pace,
We could not see each other’s face

#LordByron #GothicAesthetics

Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers
Henry Fuseli (1812)

#Romanticism #WyrdWednesday #GothicAesthetics

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz is a series of children’s horror books that I often perused when I was a child. Some of its more macabre, horrifying stories and images still haunt the recesses of my mind even today…

#Scarystories #Horror #GothicAesthetics

Runner https://t.co/eTXnbLLo45 via @artstationhq

Poet and artist William Blake died #OTD in 1827. His 1795 work The Night of Enitharmon's Joy, or Hecate, was said to represent “the domineering Female Will"

#Romanticism #GothicAesthetics #WyrdWednesday