tumblrancholia, adj. :
A moment of awkward realization that you actually do have a blog, and that it could be potentially nice to use it again, but the many days or weeks of inactivity persuades you that it would be too strange to start at this point, reinforcing the tumblrancholia.
Yu Xuanji, tr. by Geoffrey Waters, from Poems; “For Hidden Mist Pavillion,”
Les Voix du Tocsin / Voices of Warning Bell (1888)
by Albert Maignan
1. Ugolino and His Sons, 1865–67, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. | 2. Ercole e il centauro nesso • Maxcuo1975 on Flickr
Wang Ch’ing Hui, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from “The Lotuses in the Imperial Lake,”
I don’t but here’s a website with old illustrations of many types: oldbookillustrations. It’s well-documented, has author-ess names, dates, even descriptions of the pictures, and more. If anyone knows such an artist, comment on this post or reblog an answer.
I really like yours too! I find your posts very full of soul. And thanks for the nice words!
Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying your time around here! ^-^ xx
Thank you, that’s really sweet. :^) xx
A sample of haunting and troubling gifs of famous paintings. (Via giphy.com) From the artwork Beauty, by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro.
Visual memory #2 of the very sad and disturbing story of Jupiter and Io, c. 1530, by Antonio da Correggio.
Details, part II: Devises Héroïques, by Claude Paradin. “Claude Paradin (c. 1510 – 1573), was a French writer, collector of emblems or “devises”, historian, and genealogist”.
“On Friday, July 27, the full moon passed through the shadow of the Earth for 103 minutes. It was the longest “blood moon” lunar eclipse of the century, as the moon turned red in the shadow of the Earth for nearly two hours.” x - x - x - x
Red/Night Association of:
1. The Lantern Parade, 1918, by Thomas Cooper Gotch
2. Parthenon, Athens, from the Northwest (1869), by Frederic Edwin Church
During these nights, stone angels open their wings to summon the super wolf blood moon. One often hears a sobbing the night before.
Visual memory of the very sad and disturbing story of Jupiter and Io, c. 1530, by Antonio da Correggio.
Detail: Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1850, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
NASA upping the level of jack-o’-lanterns. “Even our star celebrates the spooky season — in 2014, active regions on the Sun created this jack-o’-lantern face, as seen in ultraviolet light by our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite.”
Saint Maximinus and Saint Valantinus, photographed by Toby de Silva | Website.
achasma :
Christ’s Descent into Hell (detail) from a follower of Hieronymus Bosch, second quarter of the 16th century.
Hellish visions by our special Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516).
mudwerks :
From Le Diable Amoureux, Roman Fantastique by Jacques Cazotte, 1845
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