Ye Booke of Howrs

[fordarkmornings]

The Bower Meadow, 1872. 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828–1882)

Oil on canvas

[deathandmysticism]

Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Black Magic, 1898

[deathandmysticism]

Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Black Magic, 1898

[deathandmysticism]

Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Black Magic, 1898

[met-islamic-art]

“Gustaham Slays Lahhak and Farshidvard”, Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art

Bequest of Monroe C. Gutman, 1974 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452644

[oldpainting]

Firdawsi’s Shahnama, Iran, Shiraz, ca. 1560, The David Collection, Copenhagen

Iran, Shiraz; c. 1560

[vizuart]

Jan Sanders van Hemessen - Vanitas (1540)

[history-of-fashion]

ab.1522-1526 Everhard Rensig, Gerhard Remisch - Maria, wife of Jacob Hase of Kall-Helstert, and her four daughters with Saint Peter (panels from the cloisters at the Cistercian abbey of Mariawald, in Germany)

(Victoria and Albert Museum)

[heaveninawildflower]

Illuminated page with a botanical border taken from ‘Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne’ (1505-1510) by Jean Bourdichon (1457?-1521).

Image and text information courtesy Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Gallica

[met-european-paintings]

Totila before Saint Benedict by Benozzo Gozzoli, European Paintings

Rogers Fund, 1915 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Tempera on wood

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436565

[arjuna-vallabha]

Lokeshvara and Tara, Bodhisattvas of Compassion, nepali paubha

[arjuna-vallabha]

Watercolour painting of the shrine of Shri Ranganathasvami at the core of the Srirangam complex

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

An illustration of a sandworm (aka “king ragworm”) from William Carmichael McIntosh‘s A monograph of the British marine annelids v. 2, pt. 2 (1910). The worm is labeled Nereis virens in the text, which is an older scientific name for the species now known as Alitta virens.

Full text with many other illustrations here.

[hinducosmos]

Radha Krishna - Kandarpa Ratha Odisha Crafts Museum - Kala Bhoomi wrote : This Kandarpa Ratha made with straw, depicts a group of gopis who come together to form a chariot that the beloved Krishna rides with Radha. A time consuming craft, the themes of the craft are drawn from local folklore, mythology & Jagannath culture. (via Twitter: Odisha Crafts Museum - Kala Bhoomi)

[hinducosmos]

Lakshmi Narayan Vishnu (via eBay: Neetametalshandicrafts2011)

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Proclamation of Peace, Thirty Years War, 1648, Antwerp, Belgium.

[met-european-paintings]

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist by Francesco Granacci, European Paintings

Purchase, Gwynne Andrews, Harris Brisbane Dick, Dodge, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds, funds from various donors, Ella Morris de Peyster Gift, Mrs. Donald Oenslager Gift, and Gifts in memory of Robert Lehman, 1970 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Tempera, oil, and gold on wood

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436567