ساحرة

[speciesbarocus]

Simon Marmion - Man of Sorrows (c. 1460). Detail.

[lifestill]

Along the Coast (1958) dir. Agnès Varda

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

Staffordshire pottery, circs 1810-1820 by the firm of Obadiah Sherratt.

[pacificdiva]

Scribbles found in a 16th century church

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[wintercorrybriea2]

"Girl Pictures" by Justine Kurland

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[gyratorium]

I know what I’m doing this weekend

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[dillyfirestarter]

So yesterday I went to see an exhibition of the paintings of Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664), a Spanish painter who created striking compositions and possessed a magnificent skill for painting fabrics

His paintings were inspiring but I can't get over the fact that he visualised the concept of the Virgin and Christ being risen by the heavenly host as the pair of them sitting/standing on a pile of baby cherub heads, surrounded by more ghostly detached baby heads staring at them from the clouds/ acting as halos.

Maybe this was the traditional concept and I just haven't seen enough 17th century Catholic art to know, but for my ignorant eyes these are so delightfully weird that I'm sorely tempted to spend another £20 to go stare at them again.

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[ducissatenebrarum]

“Ritual candlestick given by Robert Cochrane to a magical associate in the 1960s.”

Source: The Children of Cain: A Study of Modern Traditional Witches by Michael Howard

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Daisuke Yokota - "Back Yard"

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