[topcat77]

Robert Mangold

Curved Plane/Figure

[ohevoyev]

country boys wear the tightest pair of blue jeans you’ve ever seen and unbutton their flannel to the nipple like.. who at this rodeo needs to know you’re a slut. the clown?

[c3rvida3]

Artist's Statement #1: The sacred and the natural are often revolting and horrifying.

Artist's Statement #2: The things that horrify and revolt us are often natural and sacred.

Artist's Statement #3: Get silly with it.

[charlottearthistory]

‘prussian love and happiness’ - emil doerstling (1880)

[lush-retina-is-dead]

losing my mind

get you someone to do séances & stuff together

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio of cupid riding a dolphin, Roman, 100-200 AD

from Apollo Galleries

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Sapphire intaglio, Safavid Iran, 16th-17th century

from Bertolami Fine Arts

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

Les Deux Têtes (1898) by Auguste Leroux

[desimonewayland]

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Stage set designs for Mozart’s Magic Flute

Drouot Auctions, Berlin

[deafreyja]

Gustave Courtois, Hercules at the Feet of Omphale, 1912

[richo1915]

"The treacheries of these souls were denials of love (which is God) and of all human warmth. Only the remorseless dead center of the ice will serve to express their natures. As they denied God's love, so are they furthest removed from the light and warmth of His Sun. As they denied all human ties, so are they bound only by the unyielding ice."

This final, deepest level of hell is reserved for traitors, betrayers and oath-breakers.

Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell Gustave Courtois 1879

[kafkasdiariies]

Dante and Virgil in Hell (detail), c. 1879, Gustave Courtois

[the-lost-lamb]

Adam et Eve, Gustave Courtois

[the-evil-clergyman]

Persée délivrant Andromède by Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois (1913)

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Water Nymph by Herbert James Draper (1909)

[topcat77]

Lourdes Sanchez

Inky Blue, 2019

[topcat77]

Rosanna Bruno