Some familiar looking Bloodborne concept art side-by-side with one of Gustave Doré's London riverside streets + Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons. All feels very narrow and oppressive - the streets leaning in on you - as well lofty, various things dangling down & the sky blocked out.

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The Adepta Sororitas wake an ancient Penitent Engine to stave off the destruction of their abbey's reliquaries.

"The has not made the technical specifications for the Penitent Engine publicly available."

https://t.co/PY1Ozn2qJj

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He wore wrapped around his body a luxurious panther skin
And on his head he wore a panther cap that came down to his chin.
Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther's Skin

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Know that a rose without thorns has never been plucked
Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther's Skin

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Zenobia's last look on Palmyra - Herbert Gustave Schmalz, 1888. (Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide).

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Weapons, oh yes! Love to design weapons. I'm torn between swords and staves, so I'll include some from both :).

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Gustave Doré's Hauntingly Beautiful 1883 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" https://t.co/tPOTEHCjjT via

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アマビエ 様 です!
My take on Amabie! 😁

The Amabie is a yokai who apparently said that drawing and distributing its picture would help to stave off epidemics. It clearly predicted the rise of social media as well as COVID-19. 😜

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Satan’s Fall by from John Milton’s Paradise Lost illustrated by Gustave Doré in 1866.

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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547.

Books by Cervantes at PG:
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Gustave Doré's and Salvador Dali's illustrations of Don Quixote:

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Because things really suck at the moment I’m giving you gorgeous Impressionist paintings to improve your day. Gustave Caillebotte’s’Floor Scrapers’ (1875 and 76) are so beautiful and pose all sorts of questions of class, power, style and structure. Enjoy....

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It is not from the love of God that the cat catches mice.
Art: After a work by Gustave Doré

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Gustave Courbet, pintor francés -
(Nude Reclining Woman)

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