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medievalengravings: L’âne-pape de Rome et Le veau-moine de...

gbenard — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:32:41 +0100

medievalengravings:

L’âne-pape de Rome et Le veau-moine de Freiberg,
d’après Lucas Cranach l’Ancien, 1557

inhumanoid: Descriptio Anatomica Capitis Foetus Equini...

gbenard — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:15:00 +0100

inhumanoid:

Descriptio Anatomica Capitis Foetus Equini Cyclopici by Immanuel Ruben.

countryhouse: Ready or not ‘GANYMEDE’ James Childs - 2005

gbenard — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:09:13 +0100

countryhouse:

Ready or not

‘GANYMEDE’

James Childs - 2005

Monstrum Humanum Hermaphroditteum Pedib Aquilinis, by Aldrovandi...

gbenard — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:41:06 +0100

Monstrum Humanum Hermaphroditteum Pedib Aquilinis, by Aldrovandi Ulisse

by Martin Copertari “La Letra con Sangre entra” Detalle 2009

gbenard — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:30:41 +0100

by Martin Copertari

“La Letra con Sangre entra”

Detalle

2009

Lepus by Marta Marzal

gbenard — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:11:51 +0000

Lepus by Marta Marzal

thenighttobelieve: Taken from an anthology entitled Prince of...

gbenard — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:24:46 +0000

thenighttobelieve:

Taken from an anthology entitled Prince of Darkness, 1946

The illustrations are details from The Temptation of St Anthony, an etching by Jacques Callot, 1630

via Front Free Endpaper

technochaun: From Images and oracles of Austin Osman Spare.

gbenard — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:03:14 +0000

technochaun:

From Images and oracles of Austin Osman Spare.

kiki smith

gbenard — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:47:14 +0000

kiki smith

PAN AND DAPHNIS Art - by Todd Yeager

gbenard — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:03:19 +0000

PAN AND DAPHNIS

Art - by Todd Yeager

inneroptics: Max Ernst

gbenard — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:23:16 +0000

inneroptics:

Max Ernst

inneroptics: Max Ernst

gbenard — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:22:54 +0000

inneroptics:

Max Ernst

Nicolaes Berchem - Fantastic Creature in a Landscape -...

gbenard — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:43:29 +0000

Nicolaes Berchem - Fantastic Creature in a Landscape - (c1650)

Photo

gbenard — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:45:48 +0000

Photo

gbenard — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:36:04 +0000

funeral-wreaths: After Fuseli’s The Nightmare, late...

gbenard — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:35:43 +0000

funeral-wreaths:

After Fuseli’s The Nightmare, late nineteenth-century

Photo

gbenard — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:49:45 +0000

denisforkas: Jacob de Gheyn III -Triton Blowing on a Conch...

gbenard — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:48:26 +0000

denisforkas:

Jacob de Gheyn III -Triton Blowing on a Conch Shell. 1615

odditiesoflife: Monstrorum Historia (A History of Monsters),...

gbenard — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:54:05 +0000

odditiesoflife:

Monstrorum Historia (A History of Monsters), 1642

Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 — 1605) was an Italian naturalist and physician, also known as Ulysses Aldrovandi, or simply as Aldrovandus. He helped lead the Renaissance movement that placed a renewed emphasis on the study of nature.

One of the many books he wrote was Monstrorum Historia (“A History of Monsters”), a compendium of reported human and animal monstrosities. The book included accounts not only of monstrous natural births but also of entirely imaginary, extremely far-fetched monsters. This sort of juxtaposition was common at the time, since there was not as yet a distinction between the literary and the scientific.

joncarling: ‘cursed king’ Sketchbook Exhibit #62

gbenard — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:27:54 +0000

joncarling:

‘cursed king’ Sketchbook Exhibit #62