Cabinet of Curios

"Innamorato della Luna" (In Love with the Moon) Antonio Rubino, 1907

The Pilgrimage of Truth, 1900 by Howard Pyle (American, 1853–1911)

Summer (1896) by Alphonse Mucha

She's just fully convinced that I personally invented the concept of body horror all on my own specifically to make her life a living hell. She thinks I'm the only person like this alive. It's so funny. I love her.

Internet Archive

🧜‍♀️ Sea fables explained /. London: W. Clowes and sons, ltd., 1883.. Original source Image description: Illustration titled “Mermaid and Fishes of Amboyna” from an 1883 book, featuring a classic mermaid figure with a female upper body and a long, scaled fish tail with fin-like appendages. Surrounding the mermaid are various fish species, including a sawfish with a long, toothed snout, a spotted shark-like fish, an eel, and other smaller fish. The scene is presented as a woodcut print, emphasizing the contrast between the mythical mermaid and known marine creatures, reflecting historical attempts to explain sea fables visually. The imagery sits beneath text recounting mermaid sightings from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Birds of a Feather

"Hermia and Lysander" (1870) by John Simmons, from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream

Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)

so yeah, happy birthday to this dragon-slaying event and to it only

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST FUCKING RESPONSE IVE EVER GOTTEN ON ANY OF MY POSTS EVER

in our copy of hana-bi the subtitles never leave the screen until something else is said

A special viewfinder combined these stereograms to give the illusion of three dimensions. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/neanderthals-in-3d-lhomme-de-la-chapelle

Vorbothe, der am philosophischen Himmel hervor brechenden Morgen-Röthe, c. 1767, by Rösser, Jacob 

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