royalty reclaimed ♔

Crusading for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. Stop letting Satan evangelize better than you. #TakeUpSpace

[renaissance-art]

Symbols in Renaissance Art

Lilies: Found almost exclusively in annunciation scenes, the lily symbolizes Mary’s purity. In some accounts the golden anthers in the center of the flower represent the “radiance of her soul”. 

[holydominic]

Church of St. Nicholas / Cathedralis S. Nicolao. ♡ 

[3nedolena]

Saint Michael's Monastery

Kyiv, Ukraine

[booknerdstudies]

[your-lawyer-is-a-bunny]

M a r i a

[your-lawyer-is-a-bunny]

r e f l e c t i o n

[tywvin-archive]

@billdelacour made me choose: brooklyn nine-nine or biblical mythology

                            the four horsemen of the apocalypse:                                     death · famine · pestilence                                                     · war

insp.

[kavorunagisa]

mythology aesthetic: angel

“Angels are usually depicted as having the shape of human beings of extraordinary beauty; they are often identified using the symbols of bird wings, halos, and light.”

[drogonqueen-archive]

i.  “Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?”  – THOMAS DAGGETT, THE PROPHECY

ii.  “…for beauty is nothing but the onset of terror we’re still just able to bear, and we admire it because it calmly disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.”  – RAINER MARIA RILKE, THE DUINO ELEGIES 

[silenceformysoul]

Léonard Belliveaux (1821-1894) - Marie-Madeleine en Adoration devant la Couronne d'épines, 1866.

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[abystle]

[bewitching]

“Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia” by Stefano Maderno

[historixn]

They dreaded worse than hell: so much the fear of thunder and the sword of Michael wrought still within them; and no less desire to found this nether empire, which might rise by policy, and long process of time, in emulation opposite to heaven.

THE FALLEN ANGELS | PARADISE LOST by gustave doré.

[vivraidamour]

scenes from the bible:  the garden of eden

[marthajefferson]

the  T H R E E   W I S E   M E N

[fyeahmyths]

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For god knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like god, knowing good and evil.” 

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