Futhorc Off

[quayrund]

Wild horses crossing a river in Iran - Eydi Heydari

[spirit-of-art]

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844–1905), Gang der Mönche zum Bergkloster Athos

[rozieramati]

[japaneseaesthetics]

Tsuba (sword guard) with design of snake, Japan, Edo period, mid-19th century, Seki Yoshinori. MFA

[steellegacy]

Model in armor, Zbiroh Castle (Bohemia), early 1920s

Photo by Alphonse Mucha

(Czech artist and decorator, widely celebrated as the founding father of Art Nouveau; jeweler, and photographer)

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Модель в доспехах, замок Збирог (Богемия), начало 1920-х

Фото: Альфонс Муха (чешский художник и декоратор, один из ярчайших представителей стиля ар-нуво, плакатист, декоратор, ювелир и фотограф)

[theodorafrompluto]

Detail of The Two Crowns (1900)

by Sir Frank Dicksee

[7pleiades7]

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (also known as The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve), (Detail), (c. 1615), by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 – 1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Dutch, 1568 –1625), oil on panel, 74.3 cm (29.2 in) x 114.7 cm (45.1 in), Mauritshuis, The Hague

[tridentandtales]

Greek dinos (mixing vessel for wine and water) with ships on the inside of the rim, creating the illusion that the ships are sailing on the “wine-dark sea” (Homer, Odyssey). Additionally, other heroic scenes include Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion or Theseus battling the Minotaur.

520 - 515 BCE

Cleveland Museum of Art 1971.46

[nemfrog]

Venoms : venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics. 1908.

Internet Archive

[surfingkaliyuga]

Art Deco statues sculpted by Luis Perlotti as part of the gate at the Municipal Cemetery in Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The gate itself was designed by Viktor Sulčič and erected in 1928.

[worldsandemanations]

The eye of Istar. 1897. Cover art.

[toyastales]

René Lalique Serpent Pectoral Pendant designed around 1899.

[historicalbookimages]

🐉 Ulyssis Aldrovandi …. Bononiæ, apud C. Ferronium, 1640.. Original source Image description: Illustration from a 1640s book by Ulyssis Aldrovandi, showing two intertwined serpents or dragon-like creatures. Both have elongated, scaled bodies with detailed textured patterns. The heads are rounded and distinct, one slightly larger than the other. Latin text above and beside the drawings identifies the species, referencing “Aspidis” and “vipera,” suggesting these may be mythological or symbolic representations related to dragons or serpents. The style is typical of early natural history engravings, with fine line work on aged paper.

[toyastales]

Bat lantern from 1930.

[ducissatenebrarum]

A Memento Mori Skeleton, France, 1566

Limestone

55 ½ in. (141 cm) high

[yeoldenews]

A selection of animals from various 17th and 18th century calligraphy copybooks which were drawn with single lines to practice (and show off) penmanship strokes.

[expressions-of-nature]

Zhangye Danxia National Park, China by Tatiana Runova