Mortanius the Necromancer

Ask blog for the servant of the Pillar of Death.

[louisbraquet]

The Alchemist, acrylic on canvas, by Louis Braquet

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[charnel-grounds]

Dance of Death — Skeletons Playing Music anonymous, 18th century pastel on parchment

[jessss-ica]

if anyone needs me i’ll be alone in my tower

[charnel-grounds]

Saprophial, “Fugit inreparabile tempus”

pen & ink on paper, 2021

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Shane Pierce

[the-poisongarden]

Skull among flowers in a field by Dutch printmaker Arend Hendriks, circa 1911-1942.

[charnel-grounds]

Julius Möessel (1872–1957), “Symphony in Hell, No. 1”

oil on canvas, c. 1940s — source

[charnel-grounds]

Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880–1945)

illustrations from “Totentanz” series

lithographs on woven paper, 1919 — source

[retroscifiart]

The Gate of Saturn by Johfra Bosschart, 1959. Published in The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol 3 (1984)

[charnel-grounds]

Julius Möessel (1872–1957)

“Symphony in Hell, No. 2, Andante (Middle)”

oil on canvas, c. 1940s — source

[guido-kutro]

[thestrangeforest]

As above, so below. Ink pens on A3 Bristol paper.

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

“Memento mori” burial robes (17th-19th centuries)

[prettyskeletons]

[slobbering]

[charnel-grounds]

• Cimiterium •

Melaten-Friedhof, Cologne, Germany

Rerum.Novis