CROPPED IN SILVER

willful entity's moonlit pyre portrayed in a transfiguration unto life

[fromsomeware]

[neonelven]

Follow me, Satan (1895) by Ilya Repin

[rthwrms]

thinking about coptic mummy paintings and weeping

like. i know these people

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Pipe of Freedom Artist: Thomas Stuart Smith (Scottish, 1815-1869) Date: 1869 Genre: portraiture, genre art Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 106.8 cm (42 in) high x 78.7 cm (30.9 in) wide Location: Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Stirling, Scotland, UK

Thomas Stuart Smith painted this striking portrait to celebrate the abolition of slavery in both the UK and the US. The man portrayed is enjoying a pipe at his leisure, symbolizing his freedom from enforced labor. Behind him, a yellow notice announcing a slave auction has been partially covered up by a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

[velvetnightgallery]

Sebastian Pether (1790–1844)

[valentineua]

Ahasuerus at the End of the World (1888) - Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1860–1933)

[simena]

Edward Robert Hughes

[enchantedbook]

"Poet’s Tomb" by Rihards Zariņš, 1913.

[valentineua]

Forest Landscape in the Moonlight (1861) - Georg Eduard Otto Saal (1818–1870)

[7pleiades7]

Three Black Cats (c. 1891–1906) by Carl Kahler (Austrian, 1856 – 1906), signed ‘Carl Kahler’ (lower right), oil on canvas, 60 ¼ x 44 ¼ in (153 x 112.4 cm), Private Collection

[venustapolis]

Aurora Borealis (Frederic Edwin Church, 1865)

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko Untitled, 1969 signed (on the reverse) acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas 78 ½ by 58 ½ in. 198.8 by 148.6 cm. Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

(Happy World Goth Day)

[weepingwidar]

Martin Voigt (German, 1990) - Schwarzer Zwölfender (Black Twelve-pointer)(2020/2021)

[charnel-grounds]

Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985)

“Our prison bars are shadows, No. 1,” 1949

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[spacewonder19]

Cone Nebula © ESO

[jareckiworld]

Irene Chou (Zhou Lüyun, 1924-2011) — Heartbeat [ink and colour on xuan paper, hanging scroll, 1980]

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Unknown Chinese Sculptor, Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion, ca. 580 CE - Northern Zhou or early Sui Dynasty, limestone, from The Old Stone Buddha Monastery (Gu Shi-fo Si) near Xi'an, Shanxi Province, China (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)