1. necspenecmetu:

    Nicolas Poussin, The Massacre of the Innocents, 1628-9

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  2. (Source: groupsuicide, via saturniine)

     

  3. astrojhon:

    is madness country the desert of the

    (Source: thehollowsquare, via rajputa)

     

  4. xo-skeleton:

    Johann Heinrich Füssli, Satan and Death with Sin Intervening, c. 1800

     

  5. bofransson:

    Tamarisk Trees, Southern France Guy Orlando Rose

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  6. jaded-mandarin:

    Nicolas Poussin. Detail from The Triumph of David, 1630.

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  8. artknowledge:

    Richard Dadd - The work depicts Puck, a central character from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

     

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  10. tamburina:

    Johan Christian Dahl, Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius (detail), 1821

    (Source: sophistae, via nuclearharvest)

     

  11. abystle:

    Canto XII

    “Abreast, like oxen going in a yoke, / I with that heavy-laden soul went on,”

    (via rhaegartargaryen)

     

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  13. imagediver:

    Click on the image to see the detail in a zoomable context, which includes explanation of other details.

    Detail from The Annunciation, Jan van Eyck

    The Holy Spirit, represented by a dove, impregnates Mary

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  15. abystle:

    The Eruption of Vesuvius

    by Pierre-Jacques Volaire

    (Source: artandopinion, via cutiezombie)