NOUVEAU NOCTURNE

sweet rot to the marrow

[queenofnots]

[ninetrene]

Twin Peaks (1991)

[charnel-grounds]

Georg Erler (1871–1950), “Salomè”

drypoint, etching, n.d. — source

[cultofthedarksun]

Franz von Stuck

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[holymound]

[matchagirl]

[theinvertedwomb]

A Coptic magical spell (late 6th-early 7thc. CE) for obtaining a beautiful singing voice. Written for Severos, son of loanna, it invokes Davithe Eleleth, the seven archangels, and the Holy Father

[didoofcarthage]

Thetis Dipping the Infant Achilles into the Waters of the Styx by Donato Creti

Italian, 1671–1749

pen and brown ink

Metropolitan Museum of Art

[nobrashfestivity]

James Mooney Ceremony, Ghost Dance n.d. (1900?) Black and white gelatin glass negative gelatin glass negative National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution Arapaho, Oklahoma--Cheyenne & Arapaho Reservation

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Edward Steichen

[cultofthedarksun]

Kirsten Flagstad as Elsa in Richard Wagner's 'Lohengrin' (1929)

[threeamserif]

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[bulljumpingfresco]

Dancing Maenads, Roman, 1st century CE

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[ducissatenebrarum]

Anonymous Bolognese Painter, c. 1450–1475

Saints Pierced by Thorns (Polyptych fragment)

Tempera and gold leaf on panel

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy

A highly unique late-Gothic artwork depicting holy figures serene amid physical torment. Their blood flows down into a carpet of red roses, symbolically transforming an execution into a triumph of faith.

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