Dark Fantasy/Gothic concept art.
By Mike Franchina.
All credit goes to the artist.
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Paladin of the 3rd Circle; A member of the Procession of the Sacred Affliction; Paladin of the 4th Circle; Yeoman of the Principality of New Antioch
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Here is dragon-slayer Margaret of Antioch with a punk dragon
[BnF, Latin 1171, 16th c.]

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Lost dog, Antioch near John Muir Elementary.

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Margaret of Antioch: emerging from the back of a Dragon. The hem of her mantle hangs from the dragon's mouth.

I can hear that dragon happily munching!
Book of Hours, Morgan Library
MS M.117 fol. 52v.

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"[The Eucharist] is the medicine of immortality, and the antidote to prevent us from dying ... that we should live for ever in Jesus Christ." ~St. Ignatius of Antioch

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➡️La Maladie d'Antiochus, ou Antiochus et Stratonice, par  Ingres, 1840
Lady Eglé Charlemont sert de modèle pr Stratonice, Mme Ingres pr le médecin et Ingres pr Séleucos.
Antiochos I (325-261 av.JC.), fils de Séleucos I, aime Stratonice, l'épouse de son père, et en tombe malade.

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Few have succeeded in gaming the giant pink giraffe of Antioch

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St. Ignatius of Antioch (A.D. 107), preparing for martyrdom: "I look forward with joy to the wild animals held in readiness for me; I will coax them to devour me… I am God's wheat, and I am ground by the wild beasts that I may be found the pure bread of Christ."

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The theme this week is On the Street Where You Live, so I decided I would draw a memorial statue located in Downtown Antioch. It Is a 7ft bronze sculpture of a Native American Tree Marker that was placed on a Native American trail that passes through Antioch.

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Alexandre-Charles Guillemot.1786-1831. Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease.1808.

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Mosaics depicting the drinking contest between Dionysos and Herakles in Sepphoris, Israel and Antioch, Turkey

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Although events had led him to create a great Asian empire, Seleucus had always harboured ambitions for control in the West. Having his capital at Antioch, on the farthest west point of his great domain, was no coincidence.

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"The seven brothers, called Machabees, are holy Jewish martyrs who suffered death in the persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes, the impious king of Syria."

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Rather pleasing to read that Ingres was so influenced by the fresco of Odysseus & Penelope found in the Macellum in that he made use of her pose in his represention of Stratonice in the painting ‘The Sickness of Antiochus’.
Image 1: Sergey Sosnovskiy CC BY-SA 4.0

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This one is Antiochus, a Half-Satyr. As he grew up with his human side family he wasn't much in touch with Satyr culture. But his dad went to solve it sending him a clothing suitable to a viril satyr of his age.

That is a personal piece for a change! I Loved working on it!

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Your daily dose of culture courtesy of Day of the Animals (1977) - “Let me be food for wild beasts, for they are my way to God.” - St. Ignatius of Antioch https://t.co/zE3TUVsuXH

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Here is dragon-slayer Margaret of Antioch with a punk dragon
[BnF, Latin 1171, 16th c.]

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“No matter how bad things get, something good is out there, just over the horizon." -Green Lantern

Calling all 16-21-year-olds! Find your superpower in Antioch!

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Poster by Joey Santos and Ricci Recto

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