#williamblake

[enchantedbook]

'The Sun in his Wrath' illustration to Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso by William Blake (1816 - 1820).

[vesperalis666]

At a time when the Devil was still feared, cursed, and buried beneath dogma… some dared to write him differently. They didn’t follow fear — they followed fire.

📖 From the shadows of religion and repression, poets and thinkers rose. Milton, Shelley, Blake, Baudelaire, Carducci... Each in their own tongue, they whispered a new truth: Satan is not always the enemy. Sometimes, he is the rebel, the thinker, the wounded light.

In a world that refused to see beyond the horns, these writers saw a mirror.

— Vesperalis

[loveisadove]

I cannot serve two masters simultaneously. To embody the new story I must die to the old one.

YIELD

[pulkitoki]

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

I started working on this piece when Clown Town came out last 9/11 and forgot about it until I started rewatching the series again.

[meta-holott]

1989 Paris, théâtre du Châtelet, opéra de Berlioz "La damnation de Faust", décor d'après William Blake. I did the painting

[bm-european-art]

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun (Rev. 12: 1-4), William Blake, ca. 1803-1805, Brooklyn Museum: European Art

Size: Image: 17 3/16 x 13 11/16 in. (43.7 x 34.8 cm) Sheet (with inlay): 21 11/16 x 17 1/16 in. (55.1 x 43.3 cm) Medium: Black ink and watercolor over traces of graphite and incised lines on wove paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4368

[artist-blake]

Satan Exulting over Eve, 1795, William Blake

Medium: graphite,pen,ink,watercolor

[east-o-the-sun]

William Blake (1757–1827), "Our Time is Fix’d" (watercolour illustration, 1808)