kirgiakos:

workman: mythologyofblue:

louise bourgeois
he disappeared into complete silence
1947
denisforkas:

melchior lorck
tortoise above the venetian lagoon
1555
eurydiceunderground:

joseph cornell, sequestered bower, c. 1950
…the many trips made by bicycle gathering dried grasses of different kinds, the fantastic aspect of arriving home almost hidden on the vehicle by the loads piled high.  the transcendent experiences of threshing in the cellar, stripping the stalks onto newspapers, the sifting of the dried seeds, then the pulverizing by hand and storing in boxes.  these final siftings were used for habitat (imaginative) boxes of birds, principally owls. the boxes were given a coating of glue on the insides then the grass dust thrown in and shaken around until all the sides had an even coating…
joseph cornell, diary, mid-1940’s
frenchtwist:

via kirgiakos:

ghérasim luca
untitled, from his ”cubomanie” series
collage
1960′s
more
collageoftheweek:
joseph cornell
orpheus and eurydice
1965
kunstwissenschaftlerin:

israhel van meckenem
blue-of-noon:

detail of st. john the evangelist in the donne triptych, hans memling, 1480
goosemilk:

fletchingarrows:

an interesting starting point for the strength card in the major arcana
diagnosednostalgia:

lucas cranach the elder
portrait of joachim II
1520 
peira:

max beckmann
apollo
1942
frankieteardrop:

‘depiction of the antichrist’ from hildegard von bingen’s ‘scivias’
discardingimages:

mouth of acheronles visions du chevalier tondal, ghent and valenciennes 
ca. 1470
los angeles, the j. paul getty museum, ms. 30, fol. 17r