Weird Festival

Curated reference and inspiration

[silent-poetry-deactivated202211]

Sarah Bernhardt sculpting in her studio

Marie-Désiré Bourgoin

1879

[heaveninawildflower]

Plates from ‘Culpepper’s Complete Herbal’ by Nicholas Culpepper.

Edition published 1814 by R. Evans.

Missouri Botanical Garden. Biodiversity Heritage Library. 

https://archive.org/stream/mobot31753000789674#page/n409/mode/2up

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Antique Embroidery Book written in Cyrillic.

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Wilhelm Eigener

[talonabraxas]

“Dionysious Theatre Masks” A collection of Roman, Greek and Carthaginian masks. https://blackseedacts.bandcamp.com/album/bayar?fbclid=IwAR20TkhbsHADFt5PI33RHNgGZSAewBn58K_lA1-c5XgDB28wbFyTSfNGdxg

[2001hz]

Blame!: 'Megastructure' Architectural Illustrations By: Tsutomu Nihei (1998-2003)

[musidoras]

I'd like to have what the women in all these Marcel Rieder paintings are having.

[vysjewelry]

Bavarian enameled charivari  with heart, hand, grapes, cat, and star motifs, c. 1890s (at 1stdibs)

[antoniettabrandeisova]

A View of an Ancient City (detail), Hermann Burghart (Austrian, 1834 - 1901)

[thekimonogallery]

Moyō hinagata miyako no nishiki / [henshū Yamanaka Kichirobē] : [volume 1]

Title from label on cover; Title on verso of cover: Hinagata miyako no nishiki; On double leaves, traditional oriental format; An uncommonly good collection of kimonos and obi belts for both women and men, all printed in rich yet delicate colors. The illustrator, to give more “texture” to many of the images, has had the plates lightly embossed. The patterns are unusually sophisticated.

Ōsaka : Yamanaka Kichirobē

1886

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Watson Library copy: William Alexander Smith Fund

[dozydawn]

The Beautiful Wassilissa by Mary Schaeppi, 1971. Illustrations by Gisela Werner.

[nobrashfestivity]

Utagawa HIROSHIGE

Birds and Flowers

early 1830s.

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Amazigh, Jewish and Andalusian Moroccan Diadems and Headdresses | Taj Maghrebi 

Tafraout, early 20th century

19th century

18th century

18th century

Fes, early 20th century

Anti Atlas, 19th century

Early 20th century

Fes, early 20th century

Fes, early 20th century

Rabat, 19th century

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Agnus, oil on canvas by Konstantin Korobov

[artinparsi]

Aerial photographs of Persia by award-winning Swiss photographer Georg Gerster, From the book, Paradise Lost: Persia From Above.

1. The City of Hamadan, Iran 1976

2. Qanat Watering Garden in Fars, Iran 1976

3. Hormoz Island, Iran 1976

4. Persepolis, Iran 1976

5. Aerated Cistern in Yazd, Iran 1977

6. The Tomb of Cyrus the Great, Iran 1976

[dictionnaire-infernal]

Relic of Saint Victorious from the Roman catacombs

[utwo]

Greece Monasteries, breathtaking views from high above….

© K. Katopis