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Antiquity, Literature, Arts

[the-loon]

[magictransistor]

Gennady Spirin

[adelphe]

The Valiant Little Tailor

Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Kay Nielsen, 1925

[winter-capricorn]

[heaveninawildflower]

Earthenware fairy tale tiles (circa 1880) with transfer-printed decoration.

Made by the Wedgwood factory, Stoke-on-Trent, England (1759 - present ).

Images and text courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.

[weirdlandtv]

The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches (1796), by Swiss artist, Henry Fuseli.

[galina-ulanova]

Misty Copeland as the Ballerina Princess in the trailer for The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (ABT, 2018)

[leaderirene]

stunning

[boudhabar]

Gennady Spirin

[books0977]

Illustration for ‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier’ by Kay Nielsen (Danish, 1886-1957). Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Hodder and Stoughton, [1924].

“The draught of air caught the dancer, and she flew like a sylph just into the stove to the tin soldier”

[valerieandherweekofwonderz]

Petr Svojtka in Malá mořská víla (1976) dir. by Karel Kachyňa.

[allesandersen]

František Kobliha, Květy šera / Flowers of Dusk. 

[not-grey-enough]

snowy days, sleepy days ❄️

[miskatiuskasrojas]

by Kay Nielsen. East of the sun and West of the moon. Old tales from the north. #illustration #kaynielsen #잡화 #イラスト

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Winter Frolic - art by Arthur Rackham (1924)

[christmastreedreams]

merry christmas, happy holidays 🎄

[sovietpostcards]

Illustration by T. Kolyusheva (1967)