Archetypes & Aesthetics

[xxstargoddessxx]

Ishtar by hypnothalamus on @DeviantArt

[le-immorte]

Credit ▪ Dead Christ Supported by an Angel, 1646. Detail.

[elithien]

Here they are side-by-side! uwu. check out my blog for other cards!

[milksshrimp]

gold

[otterplusharchive]

statue studies that took way too long!!!!

[fish-tails-siren-scales]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Sea Siren Grief,” by Milo Manara

[dadalux]

Roberto Ferri

[kissedbythevoid]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlIVmZZHm_x/

[didoofcarthage]

Apollo and the Muses (and detail) by John Singer Sargent 

American, 1921

oil on canvas

MFA Boston

[twirld]

Ghismonda with the Heart of Guiscardo (ca.1650, detail) Bernardino Mei 

[artist-rubens]

Descent from the Cross (outside right), Peter Paul Rubens

Medium: oil,panel

https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/descent-from-the-cross-outside-right-1614

[galdrigge-blog]

Arthur Hacker (1858 - 1919) Farewell (Vale) (detail, 1913) 

[clawmarks]

Dancing mice. Illustration by Gerhard Heilmann in Dekorative Vorbilder - v.12 - 1900-1901 - via Hathi Trust

[norris-the-undying-deactivated2]

@rockboci

[loumargi]

Lukas Cranach

[facinaoris]

Malinalxochitl, Aztec goddess of seprents, scorpions and insects.

[achasma]

Nicolás de Tolentino (detail) by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, 1601.

[historical-nonfiction]

The Sea Dragon and The Dolphin

This fresco was found in Pompeii, with its colors amazingly preserved.

It survived a volcanic eruption by almost two thousand years. But it was destroyed by the recent fire at Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro.