Mexican god from Codex Rios juxtaposed with Egyptian gods and hieroglyphs
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Francisco Agüera Bustamante...La Portentosa vida de la muerte...1792
The earliest documented example of skeletal imagery in Mexico’s literary culture is thought to be the etchings accompanying the tragicomic protonovel, La Portentosa vida de la muerte, published in 1792 by Fray Joaquín Bolaños and illustrated by Francisco Agüera
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Georges Malkine (1898-1970)...illustration... Follow New Songs...1933
illustration for Chansons Nouvelles Suivi by Marc Fernand 1933
Léonor Fini...1966
'' To my friend Jean-Bernard, Gilbert Lely The physical difference between man and woman, this fabulous luxury dazzles me.''
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Léon Ferrari...'Hell'...digital print 1995/6
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Memento Mori... print & poem.. Christina Georgina Rossetti
Memento Mori
Poor the pleasure
Doled out by measure,
Sweet though it be, while brief
As falling of the leaf;
Poor is pleasure
By weight and measure.
Sweet the sorrow
Which ends to-morrow;
Sharp though it be and sore,
It ends for evermore:
Zest of sorrow,
What ends to-morrow.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Marcus Behmer (1879-1955) ... Ver Sacrum... illustrations
Faust and Wagner 1903
Angel of Death
Death on a tree
illustrations for Ver Sacrum ("Sacred Spring" in Latin) the official magazine of the Vienna Secession. Published from 1898 to 1903
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