The Dance of Asterion, 2014
Acrylics on paper mounted on hardboard, 26 x 25 cm
Jan van Eyck - John the Evangelist (detail) (1432)
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Time’s Arrow
A 13th century Buddhist reliquary with photograph of Caribbean seascape inside.
Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden, Germany
Cocullo Snake Festival
12th century Quran manuscript in the distinct Eastern Kufic style
Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy & Thomas de Keyser
Monument of Francesco Foscari, after 1466, Antonio Bregno
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
Gold strip fragments with coloured stone inlays, early Iron Age, 8th-7th century BC, perhaps from Ziwiyeh, north-west Iran
Symmetry becomes it: “A Vision of the Last Judgement” by William Blake (1808)
Aristotle, Physics, 1497. Aldus Mantius, Rome. Incunabula with calf binding
Ring with interlaced locks of hair that came from Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, originally owned by the duchesse de Tourzel
Domenico Fetti, Vanitas, 17th century
Hans Makart, The Death of Cleopatra (detail) 1875
Nicola Samori, from the exhibition Fegefeuer (Purgatory)
In the esoteric tradition the Orphic Egg represents the soul of the philosopher, the serpent symbolizing the Mysteries. The egg signifies the Cosmos as encircled by the fiery Creative Spirit.
Scene from Hell ~ by Antoine Joseph Wiertz
Ring, surmounted by an umbrella, stool and sword, from the Akan people | 19th century
Mater Misericordiae, ora pro nobis
The miraculous statue of Our Lady of the Recollects in Verviers, Belgium
Les Catacombes de Paris
The Office of Count Lanckoronski, Vienna, 1881 by Rudolf von Alt (Austrian, 1812–1905)
Unknown German Woodcutter
The Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus
first half of the 16th century
A fierce male deity, possibly Virabhadra
19th century. Patna, Bihar, India.
Kostel Všech svatých (Sedlec), Chezh Republic
Unknown Flemish Master - Head of Medusa (detail) (1600)
Sandro Botticelli c. 1481-1482
The Three Temptations of Christ (detail)
La Méduse.
Estampe.
Gypsographie.
Art by Pierre Roche.(1855-1922).
Graveur.
Státní opera (State Opera), Prague
Algeria, 1890s
Benjamin Christensen, Haxan (1922)
Gold pendant with inset enamel decoration, Fatimid dynasty, 11th century AD, from Egypt
Royal catafalque, elaborate, pillared structure, decorated with allegorical figures and tapers.
Etching and engraving
1650
A comprehensive overview of Medicinal Herbs:
Herbarum vivae eicones, Otto Brunfels. Strasbourg : Johannes Schott, 1530.
Lucifuge as a King of Lower Egypt, 2014
Beautiful golden details at the Yeni Cami / New Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
Albrecht Dürer
The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
Gustave Moreau, Detail from Orpheus (1865)
Hebrew astrolabe, probably Spain, about AD 1345 - 1355
Ossuary, Rome.
Postcard, Italia
Gustave Moreau ‘Salome’ (1876)
Saint Sebastian, Japan (c. 1590)
Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi, Italy
Nicolas Poussin, The Massacre of the Innocents (Detail), 1628-29
Schwarzenberg Coat of Arms, Sedlec Ossuary, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
The famous cloister of Gloucester Cathedral, England
Sumerian Silver Lyre, from Ur, southern Iraq, c. 2600-2400 BC
Interior of Roman Catholic Church of Saint Joseph, Ukraine
Gustave Moreau, Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1875-76
Tiziano Vecellio - Perseus and Andromeda
Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, Detail of Anatomy Lesson of Willem van der Meer, 1617