Beautiful, Terrible & Strange

Art. Musings. Madness. Decadence. Aesthetics. Symbolism.

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by Belgian photographer Alfonse Van Besten, 1913

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polychrome glazed terra cotta block from the 1908 Henry Babson House, designed by Louis H. Sullivan {via}

[planet-motherfucker]

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Published 1888 {read}

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1895) by Henry Towneley Green

[coldmourningrosary]

X-ray image of a rose, below, that was created by Dain Tasker in 1936. Tasker was the chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles, California, in the early days of radiology. He used fine-focus X-ray tubes to create ghostly black-and-white prints of flowers on X-ray film. The images were a hit in photography circles in the late 1930s and were published in high-profile art magazines, although his work fell into obscurity and was only rediscovered relatively recently.

[rosieandthemoon]

Lavirotte Building on Avenue Rapp in Paris

[7pleiades7]

A Nymph (1901) by Édouard Bisson (French, 1856 – 1939), oil on canvas, 55.5 x 38 cm (21.9 x 15 in), Private Collection

[franz-bauch-foto]

In the forest

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Manor House at Clifton Hampden

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St Dunstan in the East Church Garden

[mundo-magico]

[pmamtraveller]

By Fumi Yanagimoto

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The Witch, 1900's, by William Mortensen

[thinkingimages]

André Kertész, Melancholic Tulip, NYC, 1939

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by Lizz Lopez

[feet-of-clay]

The larges carpet of bluebells I've ever seen!

(sometimes you just have to overshare)