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The Temptation of Saint Anthony is an often-repeated subject in the history of art and literature, concerning the temptation faced by Saint Anthony the Great during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert.
#art by Martin Schongauer, Michelangelo, Joos van Craesbeeck and Salvador Dalí
#ShakespeareSunday 'Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves, when he did sing:
To his music, plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.'
Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1
#FolkloreThursday Ēostre or Ostara is a Germanic goddess who is the namesake of the festival of Easter in some languages. The first scholar to make a connection between the goddess Eostre and hares was Adolf Holtzmann: 'probably the hare was the sacred animal of Ostara'.
#GothicSpring Aconitum (Wolf's-bane/Devil's Helmet) is a genus of 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae. In his poem 'Metamorphoses', Ovid tells how the herb comes from the mouth of Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hades.
#MythologyMonday Guinevere is the wife of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend. In medieval romances,one of the most prominent story arcs is Queen Guinevere's love affair with her husband's friend, Lancelot. This story became a major motif in the Lancelot-Grail of the 13th century
The Cottingley #Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in 1917. In the early 1980s, Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked, using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time
Many artists have created works based on Wagner's 'The Ring Cycle', but the best known are the 64 plates and 2 frontpiece sketches Arthur Rackham created for the two volume gift editions of 'The Ring of the Nibelung' in 1910 & 1911. https://t.co/A7y6WjsNx0 via @Wagnersringnet
Delacroix's Rare Illustrations for Goethe's 'Faust' https://t.co/MLnz2ZHpx4 via @brainpicker
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law is a painter and illustrator whose art depicts scenes of fantasy,the Other World,and the surreal. She is influenced by the art of the Impressionists,Pre-Raphaelites,and Surrealists,as well as other contemporary popular fantasy artists https://t.co/nqBlxPxrkR