The Ninth Serpent

Annalynn Hammond (US)

rebecca l sanchez @lizdelphic

© Nona Limmen

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336614

The Florentine artist – who collaborated with magazines such as “Almanacco italiano Bemporad”, “Il Giornalino della Domenica”, and “Scena illustrata” since the very early 1900s – often worked on portraits of the famous poet, represented scenes from his works, and illustrated postcards to celebrate the 600-year anniversary of Dante’s death, in 1921.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupére 

Pagan Gods: Astarte (ca. 1890-95) by John Singer Sargent.

quick ink of amon 

Detail of demon in Christ in Limbo. Albrecht Dürer, 1512 Hand-colored woodcut from around 1588

Imperator Mundi (Details), 2017- Daniele Valeriani

Star Catcher, Remedios Varo

La fiaccola sotto il moggio : tragedia - Gabriele D'Annunzio - 1916 - via Internet Archive

The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic is a fifteenth century grimoire primarily composed in Latin. It is currently in the collection of the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The text focuses largely on demonic and necromantic magic, but contains sections on conjuration, astrological magic, and divination as well.

Isis with a Serpent Tail (Egypt, 2nd century AD)

From our stacks: Cover detail, frontispiece, spine detail, and excerpt from The King in Yellow By Robert W. Chambers. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895.

Helaena C Moon @ http://hapless-hollow.tumblr.com/