Diesiraea

Visual artist from MKE.

[ducissatenebrarum]

"Tree of Life" by Agnieszka Skatuła Egzesja

[ducissatenebrarum]

Gustave Moreau (French,1826–1898)

Allegory of Fable, 1879

(detail)

private collection

[flowerytale]

“The Midnight Sun Ceremony” from Andrea Zanatelli’s embroidery series

[deathandmysticism]

J. Augustus Knapp, The Jewel of the Rose-Croix, Secret Teachings of All Ages, An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, 1928

[incubi]

Gold-silver Sea Unicorn sculpture Elias Geyer — 17th Century

[aquiraxuno]

deer

[tlatollotl]

Cylinder vase

Maya

Late Classic Period, A.D. 680–750

Place of Manufacture: northern Petén lowlands, Guatemala, Pacaya area, El Mirador Basin

Codex-style cylinder vase depicting two underworld supernaturals, a leaf-nosed bat and a skeletal-headed, flint-winged bird. Each holds large plates containing human body parts, including a hand, foot, femur and eyeball. The bird perches on an anthropomorphic stone altar. The hieroglyphic text comprises four glyphs of the Primary Standard Sequence, including the introductory glyph, dedication verb, and the beginning of the “vessel decoration” section.

MFA

[neshamama]

ben shahn, "the blind botanist," 1961

[desimonewayland]

[amare-habeo]

Ben Shahn (Lithuanian/American, 1898-1969) 

Nights of Travel that Flew with the Stars (Rilke Portfolio), 1968

Lithograph printed in black, blue and gray with gold

via  desimonewayland

[k-eke]

Careful ...

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Comically distorted figures: a gallery of the grotesque in art and architecture.

[halolaneco]

https://honeymoonartist.etsy.com

[franciscodeborja]

[steedswhocarrymefar]

antonio frasconi

[zed-and-two-noughts]

Diana with Syrius - Harry Clarke

[ducissatenebrarum]

The Fall of the Rebel Angels (detail) - Frans Floris de Vriedt, 1554.

[defjux]

Set Invoking Apep by Karmazid

[mowing-blade]

Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave on the set for 'Where the Wild Roses Grows'. July 24, 1995. Photographed by Dave Tonge.