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The Triumph of the Innocents
1883–4

William Holman Hunt

#MythologyMonday The Flight into Egypt

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence …

Franz Kafka / The Silence of the Sirens

Howard Pyle #BookChatWeekly #ofdarkandmacabre

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Boreas / Waterhouse #FairyTaleTuesday

Horses in a Thunderstorm
1798

Sawrey Gilpin RA
1733 - 1807

Red-orange vermillion has a deadly past. It was extracted
from the highly toxic mineral cinnabar, which contains
both mercury and sulphur.
However, the Romans used it in cosmetics.
Cinnabar was also known as ‘dragon’s blood’.

#FolkloreSunday Villa of the Mysteries

Little Jack Frost tripped round and round.
Spreading white snow on the frozen ground ;
Nipping the breezes, icing the streams,
And chilling the warmth of the sun's bright beams.

Little Jack Frost
Charles Sangster 1875

Helen Jacobs 1930 #FairyTaleTuesday

Lena dances with the knight

W.E. Björk / Among gnomes and trolls

Illustration by John Bauer, 1915
#FairyTaleTuesday

Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen

Dancing to the Piper / Beatrix Potter

#FairyTaleTuesday

Narcissus is a beautiful young man who rejects all admirers,
until one day, he sees his own reflection in a pool and instantly
falls in love. Narcissus dies gazing at his own reflection,
heartbroken that his love cannot be returned.

#MythologyMonday
Waterhouse

… and his eyes sparkled with more fire than that of the cat
whilst dallying with the half dead mouse.

The Vampyre
John Polidori

#BookWormSat