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Esoteric beauty

[phantastische-illustrationen]

Analog March 1965 - Prophet of Dune (John Schoenherr)

[jacindaelena]

Apartments in New York ‘At Home with Books’, October 1995

[random-brushstrokes]

Bolesław Biegas - The Vampire In The Form Of Polyp (1916)

[stefanie-bean]

Los Angeles CA (built 1923)

[zombilenium]

Courtesy: Abandoned Places

[bonappetittarzan]

William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)

from The Occult Review Dec. 1912.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Mr. P. Explores (American, based Cleveland, OH, USA) - An abandoned early-20th Century apartment building in Detroit, Michigan; Moorish Revival/Exotic Revival with Gothic Revival influences, architecturally. A masterpiece.

[publicdomainreview]

In these bewildering landscapes (ca. 1689) by Ferdinand van Kessel, 64 cities across 4 continents are depicted as mere backdrops to the antics of animals — the built environment of the human world almost superfluous. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kessel-four-parts-of-the-world

[vintagehomecollection]

The Fireplace, 1994

[enchantedbook]

Harry Clarke illustration for Goethe's 'Faust ', 1925.

[jareckiworld]

Omar Mendoza — Obsidian Night (mayan blue, mayan green, indigo blue, brazilian wood, mexican honeysuckle, jonote, zacatlaxcalli, kina, charcoal, turmeric, beet, and beeswax on handmade cotton surface, 2025)

[detailedart]

Details: Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6. 1847–49. By Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

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[stefanie-bean]

Chateau Laurens, Agde, France

[redscharlach]

Sotheby's auction house in London is holding a major sale of surrealist art later this month, and to advertise it, they've turned the front of the building into this enormous pair of eyes.

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

“The end?” Vintage “Finis” imagery.

[woundgallery]

Kiki Smith, Pool of Tears 2, 2000, aquatint and etching, 50 4/5 × 74 2/5 in | 129 × 189 cm