#cyclopean

[rosecorcoranwrites]

Broke: Having a character learn important information by searching the internet

Woke: Having a character learn important information by looking at antediluvian bas-reliefs

[witchcatcreations]

The Last Temple of Giants

I completed my first big environment (and first big 3 point perspective piece) for my course! Really happy with how this came out ^-^

[thesubtlepenguin]

© richard b potter 2023

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[illustratus]

Pandemonium by John Martin

In the 1820s Martin produced a series of paintings depicting scenes of disaster, set in infinite, visionary spaces and full of theatrical, nightmarish lighting effects. Their basic mood largely derived from the artist's familiarity with John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost and with the biblical Apocalypse.

The Pandemonium of 1841 goes back to a passage in the first book of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which "Pandemonium, the palace of Satan, rises suddenly built out of the deep." In a diagonal perspective characteristic of Martin, a gigantic building complex extends along the waterfront. This recalls fantastic reconstructions of cities of antiquity. Martin's Satan, whose invocatory figure stands on a rocky outcrop in the right foreground, has the look of an ancient Greek hero. Like Achilles outside Troy, he appears with shield and feathered helmet, but commanding an army not of besiegers but of demons and damned souls in their Cyclopean city.

[1five1two]

[briefbestiary]

Giant one-eyed beings of Greek legend, there are three general types of cyclopes. The one depicted here is meant represent one of the three divine blacksmiths.

[megalithicmarvels]

Cyclops: Maker of Megaliths?

Greek writers like Pausanias mention that the megalithic walls of Europe were erected by a one-eyed giant race who worked in the god’s forges under Mount Etna near Sicily. This legend is still preserved today with a term archaeologists use to describe this architecture: cyclopean, from the word cyclops. Cyclopean construction consists of massive polygonal blocks that interlock together without…

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[ava-is-up-to-something]

Some catharsis for me after reading everything HP Lovecraft ever wrote independently:

Burn, you stupid word, burn.

[Image Description: The word cyclopean, but there’s a fire overlay on it so it looks like I set it on fire.]