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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