2013-05-13

demonagerie:

British Library, Add MS 62925, detail of f. 58v. Psalter, Use of Sarum (‘The Rutland Psalter’). c. 1260

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2013-05-01

gunsandposes:

“MR. BLAND AS THE OCEAN KING” — Theatrical illustration from the collection of the New York Public Library.

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2013-04-24

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2013-04-23

cabbagingcove:

Sainte Valérie, by Jaques Laudin II

St. Valerie of Limoges was one of many Catholic saints who was a cephalophore - a martyr who carried their head in their hands. Many of these cephalophores supposedly spoke, prayed, or walked somewhere, after being beheaded.

Painting circa 1700, via Wikimedia Commons.

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copticlight:

The alchemist who has achieved illumination.

from Andrea de Pascalis, Alchemy: The Golden Art.

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2013-04-01

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2013-03-30

demonagerie:

Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) Devil and woman on horseback.

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