Hastings’ Cave

A sample of haunting and troubling gifs of famous paintings. (Via giphy.com) From the artwork Beauty, by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro.

The old gods (1/?)

The Death of Cato, Gioacchino Assereto, ca. 1640

A beginner’s star-book, an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope, 1912

Penitent Mary Magdalen (1665) by Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705)

Carpenter on set of They Live

Bullitt by Steven Chorne

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Peter Jackson | 2001

Lone Wolf in a Winter Landscape by Stepan Kolesnikoff (Russian, 1879–1955)

They Live, John Carpenter (1988)

Odilon Redon, L’Aile, 1893

Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | 1981

They live

— Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems (1999); “February Third,”