Q. Quigley

A collection of images and other matter loosely related to my writing

[deathandmysticism]

Joseph Goupy’s caricature of Handel, 18th century

[twintailedsiren]

Cup with a gold mermaid, 1550 - 1575. Enamel, Diamond, Agate, Gold, Ruby. Museu del Prado, Madrid.

Cup, possibly a saltcellar, comprising a gold-enamelled sculpture, studded with rubies and diamonds, and two pieces of agate. The figure is a double-tailed mermaid, with a natural-coloured gold torso and a greenish-blue, red and translucent green enamelled tail. She wears a headdress of enamelled feathers and her open arms hold aloft an agate vessel with a mount of fretted and enamelled leaves, adorned with rubies.

She reminds me of these two-tailed siren necklaces, also extemely ornate.

[ducissatenebrarum]

Anthuenis Claeissins

[ducissatenebrarum]

Anthuenis Claeissins

[tridentandtales]

Greek marble shell, used as grave offerings for the dead

400 BCE

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1995.19

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[tridentandtales]

Roman bust of Gaia, originally used as decoration for a vessel

1st century CE

Walters Art Museum 54.874

[ddestroyangels]

Cupid and Psyche by Louis Prang, 1887

American, 1824 – 1909

[charnel-grounds]

“I saw two big eyes staring into the sky...”

Lawrence Sterne Stevens (1884–1960), illustration to “Mimic” by Donald A. Wollheim

Fantastic Novels Vol. 4 #3, September 1950 — source

[rowecommaadam]

Leo and Diane Dillon

[zacrid]

Hermes Trismegistus and the creative fire that unites the polarities.

Dissolution and bonding, or mercury and sulphur in the image of eagle and toad.

D. Stolcius von Stolcenberg, Viridarium chymicum, Frankfurt, 1624.

[illustratus]

Gnome Watching Railway Train by Carl Spitzweg

[enchantedbook]

In Memoriam' by John Anster Fitzgerald, (1823-1906)

[ducissatenebrarum]

A Bosch follower's painting of Hell sold for ten times its estimate at Sotheby's as collectors drove strong results across New York's Old Masters sales!

[katerinaaqu]

Perseus showing Medusa's head to Andromeda! I can't!!! 🥹🥹🥹

in this 1st century roman fresco probably from the House of Dioscuri, Pompeii it seems like Perseus is holding the head of Medusa above Andromeda's head. Andromeda is bending down to see, most likely the reflection in the water

Which is...kinda cute? (Yeah sorry Medusa!) like Andromeda curiously asking Perseus or Perseus be like "Look at this shiny thing I've got!" but also making sure that his curious lover/wife is safe.

The same image can be found at another villa; The House of Ariadne or The House of Colored Capitals

[portalibis]

Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Alexandria, Egypt

[portalibis]

Venus with Libra and Taurus, from "The Seven Planets" by Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531)

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