Old engraving and etching style art with mystical symbolismSome new pieces that are heavily drawn from antiquity ๐ Main blog: rosieandthemoon
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Illustration from the article, โThe grotesque.โ Form, a quarterly of the arts. April 1916. Austin O. Spare (1886-1956), artist.
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Pleiades, Orion, Ursa Minor. Physique sacrรฉe, ou, Histoire-naturelle de la Bible. 1732.
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From a book uploaded by lolliffe
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Suzanne Ballivet (1904โ1985) - illustration from Rimbaud oeuvres complรจtes, 1959
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My archeology class has really given me a renewed and visceral hatred of ancient aliens shitheads literally the laziest and most incurious and thoroughly racist pseudoscience in existence
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Ernst Fuchs (1930-2015) - Nachthimmel (Night Sky)
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'Sphinx', by Petra Frankova (frankfolium), 2021. 'Born in 1995. Traditional printmaker and illustrator from the Czech Republic.'
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Alchemy owl vignette from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae. Translation: "What use are torches, light or eyeglasses, if people will not see?"
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Alchemy and magic, miscellaneous texts
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Vipera Pythia, c. 1651, by Marco Aurelio Severino
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1600โs celestial engraving by Athanasius Kircher
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