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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 23, 2008 10:40:25 GMT
there's a vettriano painting called 'angel' which always makes me want to write a pulpy 40's story about it, i haven't yet but you never know!
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Post by weirdmonger on Jun 23, 2008 13:52:01 GMT
Jacques Callot, Temptation of Saint Anthony, Second Version, Etching (1634) ====================== Jacques Callot, The Two Pantaloons (1616)
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 23, 2008 14:06:50 GMT
^THOSE TWO ARE GREAT!!
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Post by allthingshorror on Jun 23, 2008 14:35:13 GMT
William Blake Ghost of a Flea (1890/20) One of my favourites.
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 23, 2008 18:48:14 GMT
William Blake Ghost of a Flea One of my favourites. And mine, Johnny. It used to be my avatar here before my recent spate of mysterious disappearances... Interesting story behind this picture too. Apparently Blake held that he was visited by this bloodthirsty spirit and drew it 'from life', so to speak.
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 23, 2008 19:42:35 GMT
For me, few artists could capture feelings - be it horror or love or anything in between - better than Mervyn Peake. He produced some fine works of horror with his illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christina Hole's Witchcraft in England amongst others, but nothing more truly horrifying than his work as a war artist. Take, for example, his haunting image of a young girl dying of consumption in Belsen.
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coral
New Face In Hell
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Post by coral on Jun 23, 2008 19:50:08 GMT
For a moment there I thought what a horrendously enormous cod piece on the pantaloons chap, then I realised it was his knee!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 23, 2008 20:14:41 GMT
Peake was great.
Only one who came close in the impossible task of saying anything more than Tenniel for Alice in Wonderland
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coral
New Face In Hell
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Post by coral on Jun 23, 2008 22:18:41 GMT
This rather marvellous Rembrandt is titled "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp" Death on his pale horse, from a fourteenth century tapestry. And one of my favourites, a fifteenth century Flemish depiction of hell, from Catherine of Cleves book of hours.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 23, 2008 23:30:13 GMT
terrific paintings Coral.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jun 26, 2008 15:23:13 GMT
Saint Antony Beaten by the Devils by Sassetta about 1430-1432
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 26, 2008 15:43:52 GMT
Go on Tony, you know you like it
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Post by Dr Terror on Jun 26, 2008 22:15:37 GMT
Go on Tony, you know you like it
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Post by weirdmonger on Jun 28, 2008 13:30:07 GMT
Detail: Temptation of St Anthony - Grunewald 1515
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Post by carolinec on Jun 28, 2008 13:55:26 GMT
The latest image you've posted isn't showing, Des. Well, not on my computer anyway.
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