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#FairyTaleTuesday Walt Disney's ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1959) concept art by Eyvind Earle
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#FolkloreThursday Fairy paintings are strongly rooted in the literary and theatrical influences of Romanticism, as well as in the cultural issues facing the Victorian era. Henry Fuseli and William Blake produced works that would be indicative of the later genre even before 1800.
An Alp is a supernatural being in German folklore. It is sometimes likened to a vampire, but its behavior is more akin to that of the incubus. The word Alp is the German form of the word that comes into English as 'elf'.
#art 'The Nightmare', by Henry Fuseli, between 1790-1791
The Very First Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ 'The War of the Worlds' (1897) https://t.co/ZbcIAJjV96 via @openculture
'Mephistopheles in the Air' by Eugène Delacroix. Plate 1 from 'Faust' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published by Charles Motte, Paris, 1828
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#art Some of Santiago Caruso's illustrations for Alejandra Pizarnik's book based on Countess Elizabeth Bathory ''La Condesa Sangrienta''
For #FairyTaleTuesday, some beautiful illustrations with trolls by John Bauer:
'Égalité devant la mort' ('Equality Before Death') by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1848
How Female Lovers Were Cast as Dangerous Femmes Fatales in 19th-Century Art https://t.co/3TbJwCiSsp via @artsy