denisforkas: Unknown French Master - Judgment of the Dead (the folio is from the so-called “Grandes Heures de Rohan” executed by the Master of the Rohan Prayer-book. 1418 
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fetishofsilence: Melancholy Artist: Odilon Redon Completion Date: 1876 Style: Symbolism Genre: symbolic painting Technique: charcoal Material: paper Gallery: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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cauldronandcross: Memento Mori Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio ca. 1500
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das-grablied: obnatus: Alexander the Great Before the Tomb of Achilles by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld
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nataliakoptseva: Albrecht Durer detail
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aritakesphotos: concordeparis, spring 2013
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tierradentro: “The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist” (detail), c.1300-1330, Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist  (Italian, Rimini).
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themagicfarawayttree: Souls ascending to Janus and Terminus holding the world, souls descending to hell. From Augustine, ‘The City of God’, in the translation of Raoul de Presles, 1478-80
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ponderful: George Henry Boughton (1833-1905), The vision at the martyr’s well
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nataliakoptseva: Peter Paul Rubens
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nataliakoptseva: 1658 Nicolas Poussin Paysage avec Diane et Orion Détail
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pisseralhammer: James Hamilton, The Last Days of Pompeii (1864)
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