Saint George's Dragon

[throatoftheworld]

The Torment of Unbelievers and Heretics by Simon Marmion, 1475

[mizenscen-blog]

The Birth of a Pearl, 1903.  Dir. F.S. Armitage.

[danoriddler]

babe please let me hold your hand again im sorry i stuck my finger into your stigmata

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book Hands; 2003; Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone

[ducissatenebrarum]

Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, first canticle Inferno. Bartolomeo di Fruosino enlumineur. Florence

14th century

[goldendaughterof-ingvi]

[moradadabeleza]

From the series “Fractal State of Being” © Sara S. Teigen

[stigmatam4rtyr]

Saint Sebastian (c.1470, tempera on wood) | Andrea Mantegna

[godkissedme]

[worldscoolest]

Summer Sleep, New York, Irving Penn 1949.

[ainavisa]

[nobrashfestivity]

Zdzislaw Beksinski 

Studies for a Sadist’s Corset, 1957

[aqua-regia009]

Who Art Thou, White Face? (1959) - Leonora Carrington

[inlovewiththemooon]

vessels of desperation

acrylic and ink on wood

[speciesbarocus]

Mutilated religious artefacts during the Spanish Civil War.

From Le martyre des oeuvres d'art. Guerre civile en Espagne (1938).

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: July 19, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. END ID]

[theinvertedwomb]

A Coptic magical spell (late 6th-early 7thc. CE) for obtaining a beautiful singing voice. Written for Severos, son of loanna, it invokes Davithe Eleleth, the seven archangels, and the Holy Father