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Tiriel and his Children; verso: Female Figure with the Head of a Horse, William Blake, c. 1789 https://t.co/gu2g2hIjL6

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2020-05-03

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing
-1786, William Blake

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2020-04-05

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing
-1786, William Blake

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2020-03-29

Celui qui n'ose pas regarder le en face ne sera jamais une

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2020-03-17

Love this color print by “Elohim Creating Adam.” Rather than the majestic God of Michelangelo’s version of Adam’s creation, Blake’s Creator is care-worn and looks like creating man has utterly exhausted Him. (Text from Leo Damrosch)

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2020-03-11

and Dante’s Pope Nicholas III dunked in a well of fire. Blake rarely was flattering of popes.

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2020-03-08

Celui qui n'ose pas regarder le en face ne sera jamais une

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2020-02-27

Here's a tiger teaser for an upcoming art update -- my favorite poem -- the Tyger by William Blake. 🐅

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2020-02-26

More Shakespeare

Brutus and the ghost of Julius Caesar | Oberon, Titania, Puck and the other fairies from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Hamlet encountering his father’s Ghost | Macbeth: “And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast…”

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2020-02-23

William Blake Vs. VESA

Comparison series continued.

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2020-02-10

“The Stygian Lake, with the Ireful Sinners Fighting”

Canto VII, 110-127 of Dante’s Inferno. Illustration by

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2020-02-09

The Virgin Daniel
-doesn’t eat meat or wine
-made to interpret dreams
-lions reject him
-best friends have weird names

The Nebuℭ𝔥𝔞𝔡nezzar
-lives off grass
-wild animals live with him
-“destroyer of nations”
-has others interpret his epic dreams about empires

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2020-02-07

In 1809, stung by criticisms of his work and angered by being double-crossed out of a potentially lucrative commission of Chaucer illustrations, decided to put on his own art exhibition.

It was a colossal failure. 1/x

https://t.co/xNM6yPSorv

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2020-02-06

Hecate was the Greek goddess of crossroads, doorways, boundaries, thresholds & city walls. This eclectic deity was also linked to the home, magic, necromancy, dogs, polecats, yews, light, ghosts, herbs, medicines & poisons.

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2020-01-31