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Saturday, June 16, 2012
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
William Blake... A Devil or Satyr... c1810
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from the Robert H. Taylor art collection at the
Princeton University Library
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil...India... 10th–11th century
This is a fragment of a full-length sculpture portraying the ferocious
Hindu goddess Kali in the form of Chamunda, an epithet derived from her
act of decapitating the demons Chanda and Munda. Chamunda embodies
bareness and decay. Her hair is piled up into a chignon decorated with a
tiara of skulls and a crescent moon. She scowls, baring her teeth, and
enormous eyeballs protrude menacingly from sunken sockets in her
skeletal face. As a necklace, she wears a snake whose coils echo the
rings of decaying flesh that sag beneath her collarbone. Just above her
navel on her emaciated torso is a scorpion, a symbol of sickness and
death. She presumably once held lethal objects in the hands of her
twelve missing arms.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Alchemy: The Golden Art...
The alchemist who has achieved illumination.
From Andrea de Pascalis,
Alchemy: The Golden Art. The Secrets of the Oldest Enigma
Alchemy: The Golden Art. The Secrets of the Oldest Enigma
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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