The Cathedral of Erotic Misery

[neshamama]

antoinette lubaki, “untitled,” 1929, watercolor on paper

[toddjurgess]

Storyboards from Kenneth Anger’s unfinished “Puce Women,” meant to be a feature-length extension of “Puce Moment” (1949)

[aqqindex]

The Yggdrasil Tree, from The Secret Teachings of All Ages, by Manly P. Hall, 1928

[fotojournalismus]

Turkey, 1968.

Photographs by Fulvio Roiter

[holographic-dipped]

Georges Liautaud

[unsubconscious]

Pier Paolo Pasolini in front of his Self-Portrait (1973). Photo by Massimo Listri.

[shihlun]

Harue Koga

- Innocent Moonlit Night

1929

[huariqueje]

Still life with card game   -  René Rimbert, 1930

French, 1896-1991

oil on canvas,  60,5 x 73 cm,

[artist-francis-bacon]

Self-Portrait, 1970, Francis Bacon

https://www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/self-portrait-1970

[youcannottakeitwithyou]

Léon Bakst (Russian, 1866-1924). Octopus.

[theegoist]

Albert Nagy (Hungarian, 1902–1970) - Coffee I, oil on canvas, 45 x 48 cm (1968)

[artisaword]

Pietro Longhi (1701–1785) Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice probably 1751

Oil on canvas 60.4 x 47 cm

National Gallery, London

[hedendom]

Galdrakver (‘Little Book Of Magic’) The ‘Little Book Of Magic’ is a seventeenth-century Icelandic manuscript, written on animal skin and containing magical staves, sigils, prayers, charms and related texts.

It is known to have once been owned by Icelandic Bishop Hannes Finnson who was alive from 1739 until 1796 and known for having a vast library containing many volumes of magic related texts and manuscripts. Full manuscript here.

[endlingmusings]

A rarely seen uncropped version of the only known photo of a live bubal hartebeest, a female who lived at the London Zoo from 1883 to 1897. The photo itself was taken by Lewis Medland sometime in 1895. [ x ]

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

After moving to Paris, Vincent van Gogh became almost obsessed with colour combinations, and used coloured balls of wool to test different combinations before trying them out with his expensive paints. The wool & the red box they were kept in are pictured here. +

[met-ancient-art]

Sistrum (rattle), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Copper alloy

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324441

[artist-munch]

Self-Portrait in Bergen, 1916, Edvard Munch

Medium: oil,canvas