oldbookillustrations:

Beneath a sky
So beautiful, came four and twenty elders,
By two and two, with flower-de-luces crown’d

Gustave Doré, from Purgatory and Paradise, by Dante Alighieri, Chicago, 1883.

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pixography:

Jack Vance 

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pixography:

Giorgio De Chirico

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blackpaint20:

Devious detail of the Dammed, from a Hell Illustration by Hans Thoma (1839-1924)

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blackpaint20:

Detail from The Triumph of Death by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526/1530–1569) 

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deathandmysticism:

Apollyon battling Christian in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

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stunningpicture:

Yeah, am bear. But some days, why am bear? Is there more than bear?

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