ancient-serpent:

Vlad III. of Wallachia. Known as Vlad Tepes - The Impaler or Dracula. Portrait.

henk-heijmans:

Two sisters, ca. 1908 - by Paul Haviland (1880 - 1950),  French/American

the-evil-clergyman:

Crow in Rain on Plum Branch by Kawanabe Kyosai (1880-89)

lamignonette:

faye wei wei

theegoist:

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944) - Linie (Line), watercolour and pen and ink on paper, 35.50 x 43.50 cm (1929)

noise-vs-signal:

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses.

All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences.” - Arthur Rimbaud (1871).

hildegardavon:

Terpsichore / Thalia

Sarcophagus of the Muses, detail: Terpsichore and Thalia, Rome, 180/200 AD, white marble

Vienna, Museum of Art History