Cabinet of Curios

Odds and ends from around the net

[flamingartofheart]

Allegory of the Four Elements - oil on canvas

— Jan van Dalen (Flemish, 1632 – 1670)

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

why are greek mythology adaptations always so gritty when there’s so many weird ridiculous antics to pull from. helen of troy not knowing how to cheer up telemachus so she drugs him to not feel any emotions and calls it a night. athena divinely intervening to curl odysseus’ hair so he looks sexy enough to successfully beg for help. aphrodite trying to help her kid on the battlefield and having to run away immediately because she gets beat up by a random mortal. achilles’ horse prophesying death to him and then never speaking again

[artssie]

The Death of Icarus (b.1823-1889) by Alexandre Cabanel

[7pleiades7]

Apollo and Daphne (1895) by Henrietta Rae (British, 1856 – 1928), oil on canvas, 168.2 × 199.0 cm (approximately 66.2 × 78.3 in), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

[metamorphesque]

The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

[dreamstars]

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

What a lovely little post you have here! *Drinks up its wordjuice to add it to my lexicon like some form of Vernacula*

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

*Sinks my teeth into your vocabillaries*

[crossofwishes]

The Vision of Hermes Trismegistus - Johfra Bosschart (1972)

[portalibis]

Astronomisch-astrologische Handschrift für König Wenzel IV. von Böhmen - BSB Clm 826, c. 1400

[velvetnightgallery]

Venice, A Moonlit Night over the Santa Maria della Salute by August Seidel

[velvetnightgallery]

Uttewalder Grund (c. 1825) by Caspar David Friedrich

Uttewalder Grund, a side valley of the Elbe valley, south of Lohmen in the Saxon Switzerland

[wanderlustfuldays]

Jerónimos Monastery Lisbon, Portugal

[ofcloudsandstars]

Sickle via Pinterest

[ofcloudsandstars]

Sickle via Pinterest

[7pleiades7]

The Muse (also known as The Poet and His Muse) (1895) by Gabriel de Cool (French, 1854 – 1936), oil on canvas, 158 x 96 cm (62.2 x 37.8 in), Private Collection

[randumbkatt]

terrifying jmage

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

consumed alive by beasts

[janusfnc14]

Unironically, there is a Legend about St Thecla* where she gets sentenced to be thrown into a pool of Man-eating Seals.

* early Female Sex-averse Christian Saint that ran from a forced Arranged Marriage, was almost burnt alive by her family before she was saved by a miraculous Storm, was almost Sexually Assaulted by a Nobleman but she knocked him the fuck out and knocked his Crown, and dressed in men’s clothing to avoid More Of That, AND travelled and preached alongside St Paul, of all people.

Fortunately, she throws herself in and Baptises herself with it. …Which causes all the Seals to be Immediately Struck By Lightning and Die. Thanks, God.

(Also, this is notable because Women Are Not Supposed To Be Able To Do This in more Traditional branches of Christianity)

Thecla - Wikipedia

Thecla - Wikipedia

Also- an addition that St Paul’s Famed Mysoginy is potentially rather over exaggerated, considering a few of his more discriminatory works.. are likely not even his. (Shakes fist at Pseudographica)

and that he did reference several Female Christian contemporaries of his with praise.

[recolored-classics]

Hylas and the Nymphs (1896) by John William Waterhouse