Infinite regress

Here= only aesthetic, absolutely not ideological./Mon intérêt pour les images présentées ici est seulement esthétique et absolument pas idéologique.

[achasma]

Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1510.

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crimson seraph

prose version of Pèlerinage de vie humaine of Guillaume de Deguileville, Hainaut ca. 1490

Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève Ms. fr. 182, fol. 4v

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Jacob Isaacsz van Swanenburg

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A selection from Gustave Dore’s illustrations to Milton’s “Paradise Lost” 1890 edition.

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Willem van Haecht (1593–1637) Apelles Painting Campaspe c. 1630

Oil on panel 104.9 x 148.7 cm

Mauritshuis, The Hague

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Anonymous. 17th Century Abstract Tantric Painting. Rajasthan, India.

[achasma]

The Last Judgment (detail) by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1524.

[speciesbarocus]

Kometenbuch (1587).

> Via.

[magictransistor]

La Dame à la licorne (The Lady with the Unicorn), c. 1511.

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Jacques Callot - Temptation of St. Anthony (first version). 1616-1617 

[othmeralia]

Engaved title page from Chymisches laboratorium…(1680)

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faceeagle

Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia (Paradiso, canto XVIII), Siena ca. 1444-1450

British Library, Yates Thompson 36, fol. 162r

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fearful symmetry

Bamberg Apocalypse, Reichenau ca. 1010

Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Msc.Bibl.140, fol. 30v

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Angel from Aurora Consurgens, c.1420.

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Hieronymus Wierix. Jerónimo Nadal S. J. Evangelicae Historiae Imagines. 1593. 

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The Visit to the Tomb Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) Tate

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Hieronymus Wierix (ou Jérôme Wierix), né en 1553 à Anvers où il est mort en 1619