the protectors/the protected

[thingsfromthedirt]

[japaneseaesthetics]

A large number of youkai who suddenly appeared in Minamoto no Yorimitsu (19th c). Each one has a humorous face, so please enlarge and look at them. From Kuniyoshi Utagawa’s Minamoto no Yoryokan Douzaku Yokaizu. It is on display until August 23 at “The UKIYO-E 2020” exhibition at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art [text by Ota Memorial Museum of Art]

[meltedgarment]

[discontinued116]

Yuji Moriguchi

[diana-andraste]

A Good Little Devil, Roland Topor, 1977

[nemfrog]

A three-headed Satan sits on a throne: bearing antlers, with faces emerging from chest, groin, and knees. From a French manuscript of the 15th century.

Christian iconography. 1851.

Internet Archive

[iconomiccc]

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Joshua Hoffine

[diana-andraste]

Untitled (Garden), Boris Sergeevich Davydov, c. 1970s

[sarah-lyse]

Kiki Smith,

Untitled. 1992, beeswax, microcrystalline wax, cheesecloth, wood, and pigment, 28 x 36 x 24 in. (71.1 x 91.4 x 61 cm)

[adamthegirl]

by timothy angstadt

[weepingwidar]

Matija Bobičić (Slovenian, 1987) - The Weerwolf Queen (2025)

[morggo]

fuckin around. might draw some doggees chasing a guy.

[ducissatenebrarum]

Hieronymus Bosch

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things

(Detail: Hell / Luxuria)c. 1500

Oil on table (poplar wood)

Museo del Prado, Madrid

[hotelisolation]

[the-other-art-attack]

Aleksandra Waliszewska

[redlipstickresurrected]

Xilmo1 aka XilmO aka XilmO@夕末 (Chinese, based China) - Untitled, 2025, Digital Art