sanguine decay

Stop in to smell the roses.

[ducissatenebrarum]

"Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; at first these sounds resounding made me weep." - Canto 3 Inferno

Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1619-20

Filippo Napoletano (1587-89 – November 1629)

Oil on canvas

[requiem-on-water]

Survival (1983–85) by Jenny Holzer

[derangedrhythms]

TEXT ID: For you are I, and I am you; your name is mine, and mine is yours. For I am your image. PGM VIII, 36-38

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Karel Thole

[lilyan-art]

“Had I been born a hound…and you a kestrel…”

Very metaphorical Hans and Erik from “Barred with Light” by @troskygrave ‘s newest chapter.

I have been wanting to draw something more symbolic for a while, and this was the perfect occasion.

[ducissatenebrarum]

[beatainfernaluz]

Harvey Dinnerstien/ Georges Antoine Rochegrosse ,Parade (detail) {1972}

[mysterium-solis]

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

[weepingwidar]

Laura Benson (American, 1997) - Haunt (n.d.)

[deathandmysticism]

Vanitas, Germany, late 16th century

[worldsandemanations]

Joanne Boyer (French, 1995) - Rebaptisé (Rebaptised) (2021)

[charnel-grounds]

Jody Fallon, “Suffering”

illustration to “Imajica” by Clive Barker

[ducissatenebrarum]

Oskar Parviainen (1880-1938), Paradise

[bohemiansthings]

The Black Shuck

[lamignonette]

[enchantedbook]

'Two Menacing Wolves under the Moon', illustration created by Boris Dolgov for Weird Tales, 1942.

[a-h-mad-hish]

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace