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According to Lady Wilde, if a short cut was taken while carrying a corpse to the grave, the dead would be insulted and disturbed in the coffin...
#FaustianFriday 🎨Wiertz
Pintura & Cine
- Antoine Wiertz - 1854 - 'El entierro prematuro'
- "Drácula" (Tod Browning, 1931)
#PinturayCine #MoviesInspiredByPaintings #ParaPinturayCine #AntoineWiertz #ArtInfluencesFilm #MoviesAndArt #PaintingAndCinema #TodBrowning #Cinedelos30 #CinedeTerror #KarlFreund
A vampire can be prevented from leaving its grave in the first place by stuffing the entrance with woven linen. It has to remain behind to disentangle and straighten the threads...
#FaustianFriday 🎨Wiertz
Here are some works by Belgian Romantic painter and sculptor Antoine Joseph Wiertz (22 February 1806 – 18 June 1865).
Kind of grooving on this portrayal of Quasimodo as a bearded, pensive zaddy type, by always quirky 19th-century Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz @FineArtsBelgium https://t.co/LBWleznoYJ
A Flemish tale says that a lawyer who had died walked out of his coffin. The gravediggers filled his coffin with stones because they didn't want to scare the people. The lawyer haunted until someone bricked up the ghost and banished him to a cellar.
🎨Wiertz
#OfDarkAndMacabre
The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (Belgian, 1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. The common means to determine death were usually rough and ready or absurd by today's standards. No wonder many feared a premature burial. #macabre
For #WIPWednesday I'm posting some of the nineteenth century art that's inspiring me as I work on Inferno, the game of swashbuckling steampunk adventure.
Wiertz's 1854 'Premature burial' has a lovely, pulpy horror feel
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The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (Belgian, 1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story (1844) of the same name. #Coffin
"The Angel of Evil," Antoine Wiertz, 1839.
Pretty much never getting that sheet back.
#satanism #romanticism
アントワーヌ・ヴィールツ / Antoine Wiertz(1806年 - 1865年)ベルギーの画家
《自殺》《早すぎた埋葬》、《麗しのロジーヌ》《飢餓、狂気、犯罪》
'Then will he dreadfully return,
And from my veins life's juices drain;
Whilst, slumb'ring, I with anguish mourn,
And toss with agonizing pain!'
-John Stagg, the vampyre.
🎨Antoine Wiertz
#FairyTaleTuesday
The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (Belgian, 1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. Wiertz enjoyed a macabre title - other paintings include The Suicide (1854) and Visions of a Decapitated Head (1853). #Taphophobia #Buried
#WyrdWednesday Antoine Joseph Wiertz was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor. He died in his studio. His remains were embalmed in accordance with Ancient Egyptian burial rites and buried in a vault in the municipal cemetery of Ixelles
Source: https://t.co/v0907HAq3L