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[michaelmoonsbookshop]

beautiful book cover c1905 with gilt spider and bird design

[sex-death-rebirth]

At Pompeii by Gustave Boulanger, 19th c.

[mysterium-solis]

Wilde Jagd (Wild Hunt) by Franz von Stuck (1899)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Wilhelm Kotarbiński (1848-1921) "Evening Silence" (c. 1900)

[funeral]

A widow in heavy mourning. c. 1860-1870.

[davidhudson]

John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925.

In his studio in Paris with Portrait of Madame X (1884).

[candleintower-deactivated202302]

Etienne Adolph Piot (detail)

[fine-arts-gallery]

Au Theatre (c. 1920) by Albert Guillaume.

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from La Esfera by Manuel Bujados (August 1930)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from La Esfera by Manuel Bujados (June 1929)

[random-brushstrokes]

William Holyoake - In the Front Row at the Opera (ca. 1880)

[permament-witzelsucht]

Tiburius of the Milan Cathedral - Angelo Morbelli 1897; Milan, Italy

[paintingispoetry]

Francesco Hayez, The Kiss, 1859

[internationalemeteorologie]

William J. Webbe

The White Owl (Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits). 1856

[henk-heijmans]

Oklahoma cyclone, ca. 1900 - by Uriah Smith (1832 - 1903), American

[nataliakoptseva]

Bosch, Hieronymus - The Garden of Earthly Delights, detail

[fine-arts-gallery]

Magdalene Grieving (1605) by Caravaggio.