The Life That I Could Still Live, I Should Live

A student attempts to understand his environment and the nature of that which inhabits it. This blog is for all who love history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, mythology, religion, and truth. 

[venustapolis]

Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome (François de Nomé, 1593 - 1620)

[shisasan]

Simon Jacobsz de Vlieger - Dark Landscape (1640) 

[venustapolis]

King David (Gustave Moreau, 1878)

[charnel-grounds]

Wilhelm Kray (1828–1889), “Wintermärchen” (Winter’s Tale)

oil on canvas, n.d.

[classicalcanvas]

Circe Invidiosa (1892) by John William Waterhouse

[classicalcanvas]

The Magic Circle (1886) by John William Waterhouse

[funeral]

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

[the-evil-clergyman]

Knight Vanquishing Time, Death, and Monstrous Demons by Philips Wouwerman (1662)

[redlipstickresurrected]

Bill Mayer (American, based Decatur, GA, USA) - The Offering, 2017, Paintings: Gouache on Watercolor Paper

[thecollectibles]

Sowing Stars by Valera Lutfullina

[talonabraxas]

YHWH: I Am That I Am / YHWH I am that I am

[ducissatenebrarum]

Eternal Pain - The Severed Head of Medusa. 1913. Paul Darde. 1888-1963. gypsum

[3y3]

The Hermit, ikosidio

[the-evil-clergyman]

Ajax and Cassandra by Solomon Joseph Solomon (1886)

[shisasan]

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

—

Friedrich Nietzsche

[talonabraxas]

Etching by Norman Lindsay

[enchantedbook]

‘Frenzy’ by Wladyslaw Podkowinski, 1894