archaic states

Anastaxia, Russia • Dark corridors through imagination • Posting from 2013 • Historical costume blog @marchofanemones

[dailyclassicart]

Howard Pyle - "The Garden Behind the Moon" (1895)

[majestativa]

Your heart; the twin of mine.

VICENTE ALEIXANDRE — Destruction or Love: A Selection from La Destrucción O El Amor of Vicente Aleixandre, transl. by Stephen Kessler, (1976)

[starrywisdomsect]

Jan Švankmajer’s Castle of Otranto (1977) is an animated adaptation of Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel of the same name. This novel is credited with the start of the genre of gothic fiction, and was heavily influential on the horror genre as a whole.

[ofallingstar]

Blood Tea and Red String (2006)

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[reachartwork]

uncommon locations for Project Card Souls

[victusinveritas]

‘Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy’

--Austin Osman Spare

The Book of Pleasure, 1913

Austin Osman Spare

[milksockets]

irina ionesco in zoom magazine 108: special été

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[liivn]

The Bath of Venus (1898-1904, oil on canvas) | Charles Shannon

[assyrianjalebi]

Isabelle Huppert in The Lady of the Camellias (1981)

[skullofjoy]

Denis Forkas - Lucifuge as a king of lower Egypt - 2014 

[ducissatenebrarum]

Inferno - Unknown English Artist, c.1800.

[milksockets]

newlook magazine november 1985

[undinesea]

The ether gripped in vertigo spins; From so much azure a glistening diamond is drawn.

Anna de Noailles, from Les Journées romaines

[musicmakesyousmart]

Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction

Columbia

1972

[the-art-archive]

Christ with Red Thorns (1897) by Odilon Redon