
1890 Albert Edelfelt Le Christ et Marie Madeleine, Légende finlandaise Huile sur Toile 221x154 cm Helsinki, Ateneum Taidemuseo

Agostino Arrivabene

Hesiod and The Muse. Gustave Moreau

Evening by the Lake - Edward Cucuel

Artur Grottger

Burgfräulein von Strechau, by an unknown artist from the 17th century. The painting hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The legend (as far as I can determine from the German websites I’ve deciphered with the help of Google Translate) tells that in the late Middle Ages a damsel waited for her lover who left to the Holy Land to fight the infidels. The lady promised that if he did not return she would enter a monastery. Despite her promise, she married another man and when the bride came to the festival her face changed to a skull and devilish figures appeared and pulled her down to hell in front of all the guests.
The legend is derived from a poem

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 606, f. 8v (Minerva distributing arms). Christine de Pizan, Épître d’Othéa. Paris, c.1406

Snakes Georges Barbier

Pablo Picasso

LEONORA CARRINGTON - La Reina de los Mandriles

Louenges à Nostre Dame. 15th century

“The Mouth of Truth” (detail), 1525-27, Lucas Cranach the Elder

Odilon Redon, Saint John, 1892

Woman with a Necklace - Amedeo Modigliani 1917

Gustave Doré

Martyrdom of St.Barbara,c1515 Schwaigern Altar

the Three Dead (with a peacock and a cat) Psalter and Hours of Bonne de Luxembourg, Jean Le Noir(?), Paris before 1349. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters 69.86, fol. 322r

Alphonse Mucha model reference photos and final artworks










Man with a pipe, Paul Cezanne, 1895

Pablo Picasso

Look, Alex Andreyev

Vierge à l’enfant entourée de saintes (Virgo inter Virgines) Gérard David Feuillet d’un Livre d’Heures, Bruges, vers 1500. (Pierpont Morgan Library)

Saint Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins Les Grandes Heures d’Anne de Bretagne, Jean Bourdichon, Tours or Paris 1503-1508. BnF, Latin 9474, fol. 199v

Anonymous Spanish artist - The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun. Illumination for Commentaria In Apocalypsin by St. Beatus of Liébana. 1086

Saint Thomas Aquinas (Carlo Crivelli) Love the way Thomas is carrying a church

William Blake Lucifer and the Pope in Hell (The King of Babylon) about 1805 Art, Paintings & Prints

King Presiding Over A Massacre Of Infants; Soldiers Pour The Blood Of The Infants Into A Boiling Vat After Nicholas Flamel; XVII Century (Wellcome Images)

1351-1400 William of Deguileville The Pilgrimage of human, Pilgrimage of the human heart

Luis Royo ~ “The Labyrinth: Tarot - La Muerte”, 2004

Franz von Stuck

Cats, by E

Pablo Picasso

1151-1200 L'échelle de saint Jean Climaque, The scale of saint Jean Climaque Icône Couvent sainte-Catherine Sinaï.

1913 Léon Spilliaert The Crossing

British Library, Harley 3469, f. 20v (‘A man with a sword’). Salomon Trismosin, Splendor Solis. Germany, 1582

Man With Hat Made Out of Stars, Sonja Barbaric

musical dog ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century. British Library, Stowe 17, fol. 172r

Jane Avril, Toulouse Lautrec

Edward Robert Hughes

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