hadrian6:

Rest on the flight into Egypt. 1879. Luc Oliver Merson. French. 1846-1920.

oil on canvas.        http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

ellenflagg:

Wolfgang und der Teufel (Santo Agostinho e o Diabo/Saint Wolfgang and the Devil)

peira:

Jacob Grimmer (c.1525-1592):  Winter Landscape with people skating on a frozen river and hunters in the foreground (not dated) via Wikimedia

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Caroline Bardua (1781-1865)

Flora, or the wreath maker

arthistorita:

Jan van Kessel I,Vanitas Still Life,1665-1670,

National Gallery of Art (US)

Some artists chose to remove figural and narrative elements entirely when employing momento mori. Seemingly innocuous still-lifes of flowers, bubbles, and butterflies are darkened with the addition of the skull as a sinister kind of vase and an hour glass endlessly counting out the passage of mortal time. For all their beauty, even the lighter elements have a fleeting quality about them- flowers quickly turn, bubbles burst, and insects feed on the decay.

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siryl:

sisterwolf:

Jan Rombouts - St.Mary with the Dragon detail

via

Now that is a dragon!

Fun fact: The art attributed to Jan Rombouts is the subject of much debate.  Some scholars believe Jan Rombouts and Jan van Rillaer were actually the same artist.

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Mammoth by Charles R. Knight

cavetocanvas:

Elihu Vedder, The Questioner of the Sphinx (Listening to the Sphinx), 1863

sisterwolf:

Pavel Svedomsky - Medusa, 1882

Detail from Hobo Clown #2 by Allison Schulnik.

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
The Haunted House

welovepaintings:

Fisherman and the Siren, by Knut Ekwall

mudwerks:

mirrormaskcamera:

foxesinbreeches:

billyjane:

Monday Dali ~Untitled - for the campaign against venereal disease 1942

via History of Art

atelierentomologica:

Otto Marseus van Schrieck, 1670, oil on canvas, Forest Landscape with Butterflies and Snake

<3 Dutch masters.

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