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Plaster models of mouths pronouncing vowel sounds from Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris ser.10:t.14 (1925).

Full text here.

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[deathandmysticism]

Titian, Flaying of Marsyas, ca. 1570-76

[nemfrog]

Dissected legs walking in a landscape, Francesco Valesio after Odoardo Fialetti.

Giulio Casseri. Tabulae anatomicae, book 4. By 1616.

Getty Institute via Internet Archive

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[px-collardot]

Ritual paintings

peinture à l'œuf et huile sur papier 15 x 21 cm

2026

[lilacsinthedooryard]

Simone Martini (Italian painter, c 1285-1344) Maestà (detail) 1315

[ymutate]

wall of perfectly aligned skulls in a Tibetan monastery

[wandering-cemeteries]

San Bernardino alle Ossa, a chapel full of bones.

Milan, Italy

April 2024

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Ein Totentanz: Der Wucherer (1650 / etching) - Conrad Meyer

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Death and the Miser (c. 1521/ Oil on wood) - Jan Provoost

[charnel-grounds]

Walter Draesner (1891–1940)

four plates from “Ein Totentanz” series, 1922

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[tyger-land]

𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗲 Antaeus Setting Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell. Watercolor with pen and ink on paper; 1827.

[antiplatonist]

[sunlilys]

Hilma af Klint On the viewing of flowers and trees 1922

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

Gebet und betrachtungen des Lebens des mitlers gottes und des mentschen unsers herrens Jesu christi (1521) Sigmund Grimm

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