a fine romance

A blog dedicated to posting art and lock screen designs. Please note majority of the content is not my own and feel free to let me know a source if you find them so I can acknowledge them.

[thewinedarksea]

celtic mythology + major goddesses

for @penumbvra, happy birthday sasha! 

[figuresinthevoid]

The Beauty of the End

John Martin (1789-1854), English painter and engraver.

This romantic artist will be particularly inspired by the apocalyptic evocations of the Bible, which he will sublimate by representing the gigantism of fury of the elements.

(Oil paintings details. The pictures show, in order : The Great Day of His Wrath, circa 1851 ; The Pandemonium, circa 1841 ; Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still, circa 1840 ; The Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah, 1852 ; Manfred and the Alpine Witch, 1837 ; The Bard, circa 1817 ; The Last Judgement, 1853 ; Macbeth, 1820 ; The restored version of The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, circa 1821 ; and finally, The Seventh Plague, 1823)

[afineromance]

Isobelle Carmody, The Gathering/ Evelyn De Morgan, The Angel of Death (1880)

[sabinahahn]

“They say Prometheus brought fire from the sun concealed in a hollow fennel stalk. They say tarragon came to be when a flax seed was pushed into the pierced root of a sea onion and planted after dark. The Minotaur simply likes the smell of chopped herbs.”

Steven Sherrill  “The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break”

[kallistoi]

[image description: an illustration against an orange background of a minotaur with black fur. he’s wearing white chef’s coat with the sleeves rolled up and is standing in front of a large pile of assorted herbs and vegetables, rendered in white silhouette. above him in the same white silhouettes hang pots and pans; his eyes are closed peacefully.]

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Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus/ Titian Venus Anadyomene (1520)

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Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies/ John William Waterhouse Ophelia (1894)

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Homer Iliad (21.483)/ Guillame Seignac Diana The Huntress (date unknown)

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Madeline Miller Circe/ John William Waterhouse Circe Invidiosa (1892)

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Virgil Aeneid (6.314)/ John William Waterhouse Psyche Opening the Golden Box (1903)