[xphaiea]

Nikolai Vorobyov • Tugarin Zmeyevich (detail)

[questcequecestqueca]

This powerful image transcends time, and continues to go viral over 70 years later.

Helen Konek is 91 years old now. But she was 17 when photographer Richard Harrington asked to take images of her family near Arviat, Nunavut. This one is in the massive igloo her father Pipqanaaq built.

Nudes & Noises

[illustratus]

Gorgons, Hydras, and Chimeras (Milton's Paradise Lost) by Gustave Doré

[xphaiea]

Kitsune netsuke, Wakyosai, 19th C

[deathandmysticism]

Saint Lucy’s eyes painted by Francisco de Zurbarán, ca. 1635-40

[istandonsnowpiles]

What’s up late night folks? Here’s an eerie shot I took down a pitch black road in the middle of the night

[the-evil-clergyman]

Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse (1892)

[nobrashfestivity]

Masao Yamamoto

[nobrashfestivity]

hundreds of pictures by Yamamoto under the link

[nobrashfestivity]

Masao Yamamoto

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[science-is-everything]

Circulation within the Skull

[nenan]

María Khan photographed by Olivia Ezechukwu, hair by Louis Souvestre

[mysterium-solis]

Tombstone by Arnold Böcklin (1880)

[deathandmysticism]

A Student’s Dream, ca. 1900

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

[ancienthistoryart]

The ancient theatre of Epidavros, Peloponnese, Greece. 4th c.BC.

[anodetoforever]

[xphaiea]

The Masque of the Red Death, dir. Roger Corman, 1964