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sideblog for @/saintperegrin, regarding my current paper: religious iconography in the life of the vampire armand

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why can't i post my pdf. i want to post my pdf.

here is an extended look at christian iconoclasm and image worship. for my religious history enjoyers.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1291064.pdf

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Assad's Armand as Botticelli's Mercury because I wanted to make a show-accurate version of the book's cover

[aristotelic]

la donazion(e)

[suskiss]

re-enacting the artifice of emotion

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Sacrificial lamb

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singing himself a song armand the cute armand the never done anything wrong

[supervoiid]

[ arun, armand, amadeo ]

[burntuprelics]

"Does anybody care about the siege of Constantinople?" asked my Master.

"Tell me what became of Giovanni Longo," I asked in a small voice. All eyes were on me.

"It's the siege of...Amadeo, was it? Yes, Amadeo, that I have in mind!" cried the blond-haired dancer.

[...]

"My Father was there!" said the redhead man. "And lived to tell it. He was with the last ship that slipped out of the harbor with the Venetians...They carried the citizenry to safety, Sir...slipped out carrying the helpless refugees after the Turks had won."

allusions to the fall of troy as civilization-founding act in the aeneid, the city as a woman to be raped in the trojan women etc., creusa as sacrifice in the aeneid again. amadeo is figured as a helen-like prize to be bartered for, cassandra-like to be violated, etc. but being there with marius he is invulnerable; if marius is represented as christ at the last supper armand is christ as sacrificial lamb, eucharist to be consumed. and of course the sacred banquet is as identified by girard a site of sacrifice...the men are described as fleshly, meaty, animalistic, and they are the ones to be slaughtered by marius; however amadeo is very clearly being ritually placed into the sacral position, so this scene is what actually begins his transformation by rendering it inevitable

[burntuprelics]

"You smile at our friend rolling around on the ground?" one of them asked, sticking his knee between my legs.

I backed up, barely escaping the rude blow. "Seemed the kindest thing I could do," I answered. "Being that my worship was the cause of his fall. Don't plunge yourself into such devotions, yourself, Sirs. I haven't the slightest inclination to answer your prayers."

rice, the vampire armand

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[bloodhymnal]

have i found you?

an old piece of the vampire armand after the bacchante by jean-leon gerome, lyrics from iron & wine’s flightless bird american mouth

[lesbians4armand]

amadeo, a sort of patron saint to me

[carveredlunds]

What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembrance of a warmer flame than that which gave its silvery glow to my faint smile at those who asked it of me? I remembered no one who had ever lived and breathed within my quietly moving form. — The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice

[adeliegir]

An evening at the museum always involves Amadeo 🎀

[agathah]

A Botticelli Angel

This was so fun to do, I did a quick research on Botticelli's technique on oil painting and tried to recreate that digitally. I feel like I need to try drawing in this style more times so it can be more accurate, but I hope you guys like it!

PRINTS are on my fixed post 🫶

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'' beautiful marius who gave me venice ''

inspired by 'the kiss' by yves pires.