Anacorensis

"Fotografiamos para ahuyentar los espíritus" - Kafka -

[nobrashfestivity]

Gordon Parks, Helen Frankenthaler, 1956

[arte-artem-artibus]

M.C. Escher - Study of Majolica Tiles, at the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 1936, colored pencil, watercolor, ink and graphite on graph paper

[downyourspine7]

- Auguste Rodin, Paolo et Francesca (scène de l'enfer de Dante)

[izvletchenie]

by Henri Matisse

[izvletchenie]

Edvard Munch, "Art". Metabolism Motif, 1896

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a poem titled "Loving The Killer," featured in The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton

[jareckiworld]

Tuula Lehtinen — Van Huysum VI (oil on canvas, 2023)

[verdepaola]

Georgia O'Keeffe,' Wave,Night', 1928.

[ducissatenebrarum]

This rare manuscript is a Coptic magical text known as the Spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, dating to the 6th–7th century CE in Egypt.

Written in ink on papyrus, it reflects a period when words were believed to hold real supernatural power. Texts like this blended religious language, ritual instructions, and symbolic formulas intended to influence the physical world.

In late antique society, spirituality was not separate from daily life — it shaped health, speech, protection, and fortune. Writing was not only a tool for recording knowledge, but a medium believed capable of transforming reality itself.

Today preserved at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the manuscript survives as a striking reminder that in the ancient world, ink could carry both meaning and magic.

[mundo-magico]

[arinewman7]

Eve Tempted by the Serpent

William Blake

tempera and gold on copper, 1799/1800

[arte-artem-artibus]

Louise Bourgeois - from 'Ode à l'oubli', 2004, fabric, lithographic ink and archival dyes printed on cloth, 27 x 34 cm

[arte-artem-artibus]

Louise Bourgeois - La Fleur Bleue, 2007, watercolor, pencil and etching on paper, 20.6 x 28.9 cm

[the-wolf-and-moon]

NGC 6302, Butterfly Wings

[nobrashfestivity]

Suad al Attar, Garden of Eden, 1993

[thunderstruck9]

Suad Al-Attar (Iraqi, 1942), Garden of Eden, 1993. Oil on canvas,183 x 153 cm.

[enchantedbook]

'Green Man' by Brian Froud

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969

Acrylic on wove paper

50 ¼ x 42 ¼ in. (127.5 x 107.2 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number2106.69

Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

NGA