Just a place for me to collect things I enjoy.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
(Source: crunchyleaves-autumndreams)
The Silver Ship - James Jebusa Shannon
Death of Abel. 1875. Camille Felix Bellanger. French. 1853-1923. oil on canvas. Musee d’Orsay.
La mort d’Abel by Vincent Emile Feugere Des Forts
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the abduction of ganymede (ca. 1650) by eustache le sueur
L’ange du mal is a religious marble sculpture by Joseph Geefs.
This sculpture was completed it in 1842 and installed it the following year. It generated controversy at once and was criticized for not representing a Christian ideal. The cathedral administration declared that “this devil is too sublime.” The local press intimated that the work was distracting the “pretty penitent girls” who should have been listening to the sermons.
L’ange du mal was not uniformly admired even as a work of art. When it appeared in an 1862 international exhibition, the reviewer criticized Geefs’ work as “gentle and languid” and lacking in “muscle”, “a devil sick… : the sting of Satan is taken out.”
Then it would be replaced by his brother’s sculpture Le génie du mal.
~ A Dragon Charging Two Doves.
Culture: Franco-Flemish
Place of origin: Thérouanne (?), France (formerly Flanders)
Date: ca. 1270
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment.
(Source: getty.edu)
The Romance of Alexander - 1338-1344 Bodleian Library-University of Oxford.
Ms. Bodl. 264, digitized and online here
Book of Hours, Coat of arms, Walters Manuscript W.267, fol. 178r by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts http://flic.kr/p/CLsAVR
