Mustard Gas and Roses

Sailing unnavigable waters

[thevisualvamp]

Well clutch my pearls

[intothedreamverse]

White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[houndmother]

i’m burning the candle at ends you’ve never heard of

[cptcasey]

hey, bestie, quick question...how do I get like...my passion for literally anything...back?

[hellgirl666xx]

[academic-vampire]

𝔰𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔲𝔫𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔟𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔦𝔱

[eiralivered]

she has that sadness in her eyes that you only see in alcoholic captains of doomed arctic expeditions

[spookyasmr]

[ghostofkathrine]

Bat vase by Richard Freiwald

[jstor]

While differing greatly from traditional Tarocchi or tarot cards, this set earned its misleading name because of a few, unimportant similarities. Never a game, scholars generally agree that this set was an educational tool, used to visually describe a fifteenth-century philosophical model of the universe. It was believed that the universe was a ladder-like structure that began with the beggar and rose through the ranks of man, the muses, the liberal arts, the virtues, and the planets, until it finally reached the pinnacle, the dwelling place of God. Reflecting this order, these fifty engravings were divided into five groups of ten: the Conditions of Man; Apollo and the Muses; the Liberal Arts (with three added disciplines–Poetry, Philosophy, and Theology); the Virtues (with three personifications of cosmic principles called "genii"); and the Firmaments of the Universe.

View the full collection of E-series Tarocchi cards on JSTOR.

[jstor]

This Friday the 13th, we share a haunting etching from 1900: Soren Lünd's "The Old Horse." A spectral figure of Death rides in stark detail, reminding us of art’s ability to capture the mysteries of life and beyond.

Explore the supernatural on JSTOR.

[ducissatenebrarum]

[publicdomainreview]

1895 colour lithograph of Isolde drinking the love potion which, according to the tales of King Arthur, would bind her to the knight Tristan.

From a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley who was born #onthisday in 1872.

Buy a print here: https://t.co/yljEqgL5x3 #otd

[soolmaz2001]

[ekaterinastancheva]

[derangedrhythms]

What will become of you in the rage of this passion without an end?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’, tr. David Constantine

[fordarkmornings]

James Sant (British, 1820-1916)

Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle, 1850