Ginnungagap

Quo tendis anime? quid furens saltus amas?

[wonderlartcafe]

Artist: Gyokudo Terukata

Title: Lady on a Bridge - Edo no Nishiki

Date: Ca. 1910.

[karrova]

Sir Roger L'Estrange (detail) by John Michael Wright

[heaveninawildflower]

‘Insects and Flowers’ by Ju Lian (Chinese, 1828–1904).

From an album of eight leaves; ink and colour on paper.

Images and text information courtesy The Met.

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Ophelia (detail) 1864. Thomas Francis Dicksee

[symbolism-art]

Death: It is I who makes you serious; let us embrace each other (plate 20), 1896, Odilon Redon

Size: 23.4x21.4 cm Medium: lithography on paper

[aleyma]

Reliquary Bust of a Female Saint, made in the Netherlands in the early 16th century (source).

[aleyma]

Ito Shinsui, Night Snow, 1923 (source).

[aleyma]

Roman statue of Cupid, possibly modeled on an earlier Greek masterwork, c.190 AD (source).

[artbutcher]

Hieronymus Bosch (The Garden of Earthly Delights)

[artbutcher]

Anton von Werner (In the Troops’ Quarter outside Paris)

[artshreds-blog]

The Unequal Marriage (detail)

Vasili Pukirev

[amare-habeo]

Lovis Corinth (German, 1858-1925) 

Faun with goldfinch, N/D

Oil on anvas

[amare-habeo]

Sigismund Righini (Swiss, 1870–1937) 

Self-portrait (Selbstporträt), 1908

Oil on canvas, 48 × 34 cm

[amare-habeo]

Sasha Schneider (Russian-German, 1870 - 1927) 

Vision (from the album: Twelve drawings of Sascha Schneider), 1896

166 × 227 mm

[amare-habeo]

Louise Bourgeois (French-American, 1911 - 2010) 

The Welcoming Hands, 1996

[amare-habeo]

Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) (French, 1894 – 1954)

Drawing after “ What do you want from me?” ( “Que me veux-tu?”), 1928

Ink on paper

[somanyhumanbeings]

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, Gustave Courtois (1883)