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[weirdlookindog]

Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) - “Volaverunt (They have flown)”, 1797-98

Plate 61 from ‘Los Caprichos’

etching, aquatint and drypoint printed in sepia ink

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[frostedmagnolias]

The Devil’s Lamp also known as The Bewitched Man (1798)

by Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828)

[theonlinecollector]

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

San Juan Bautista niño (1810)

Museo Nacional del Prado

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828) Las Santas Justa y Rufina, 1817 Sacristía de los Cálices, Seville Cathedral Santa Cruz, Sevilla, Andalucía Justa and Rufina are the patron saints of Seville, whose cathedral is seen in the background. Their legend states that they were sisters and natives of Seville who made fine earthenware pottery for a living, with which they supported themselves and many of the city's poor. Traditionally, they are said to have lived in the neighborhood of Triana. Justa was born in 268 AD, Rufina in 270 AD, of a poor but pious Christian family. During a pagan festival, they refused to sell their wares for use in these celebrations. In anger, locals broke all of their dishes and pots. Justa and Rufina retaliated by smashing an image of Venus. The city's prefect, Diogenianus, ordered them to be imprisoned. Failing to convince them to renounce their faith, he had them tortured on the rack and with iron hooks. This method also having failed, they were imprisoned, where they suffered from hunger and thirst. They were then asked to walk barefoot to the Sierra Morena; when this did not break their resolve, they were imprisoned without water or food. Justa died first. Her body, thrown into a well, was later recovered by the bishop Sabinus. Diogenianus believed that the death of Justa would break the resolve of Rufina. However, Rufina refused to renounce her faith and was thus thrown to the lions. The lion in the amphitheatre, however, refused to attack Rufina, remaining as docile as a house cat. Infuriated, Diogenianus had Rufina strangled or beheaded and her body burned. Her body was also recovered by Sabinus and buried alongside her sister in 287 AD.

[litnerdwrites]

Okay, but what are the odds that Anir, Alexi, and (now) Val have a club or support group where they meet up and groan about their respective Princes (Wrath, Envy and, Gluttony), being in love? Like they set up charcuterie boards, get glasses of wine (and blood), and just mindlessly bitch about how they make their jobs harder.

Think Val searching high and low for Gluttony, who avoids to get more 'quality time' with Adriana. Or Alexi waiting with a delegation that came to meet Envy, only Camilla had stoked his sin right before they arrived, and now they have to wait while he claims her on his throne. Loudly. Or Wrath pissing off his chefs because he kicks them out of the kitchen to cook with Emilia (amongst other things).

In Throne of the Fallen, Alexi had to convince Envy to go after Camilla, and I'm pretty sure Val finding out that Gluttony fell in love with Adriana is going to send her reeling (even though she's probably going to tell Gluttony not to be a baby about it and just talk to her). Anir probably had the same frustrations with Wrath, during the original trilogy, and before it, when Wrath fell in love with her for the first time.

They would also spilling the most piping hot tea in all of the underworld about what their princes are like behind closed doors, when they think no one is watching. I'm picturing them being shocked over the idea of Wrath cooking with Emilia at all, and giving her doe eyes while she treats his giant hellhounds like puppies (they totally like her more). Or Envy sitting down to paint with Camilla, and go on romantic picnics with Camilla.

Every time one of the princes gets engaged, they'd approach their burnt out second who seems ready to quit, and give them a time and place. If Emilia ever found out about it, she'd probably start her own club though, where the wives + best friends gather to discuss how difficult their princes were in the beginning (and maybe some side stories about how frustrating Emilia found Fauna and Anir until she finally asked him out).

[historypaintings]

The Victorious Hannibal Seeing Italy from the Alps for the First Time

Artist: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)

Date: 1771

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Hannibal (247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.

Hannibal appears in the center of the composition, atop a mountain ridge, escorted by a majestic-winged genie and a mounted soldier with a solemn banner unfurled behind him. He has raised the visor of his helmet and gazes rapturously toward the wide valley of the Po River. This is personified by the figure with its back turned, a bull's head and a red cloth. Located in the lower left corner, it ushers in the scene and admiringly greets the victor. In the background on the left, the army appears reaching the summit, while on the right, other soldiers rest on their horses. In the sky, a divine apparition of Victory, holding a laurel wreath, promises the Carthaginian general new triumphs.

[galleryofart]

Boys Climbing a Tree

Artist: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)

Date: 1791-1792

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Three poorly dressed children help each other to climb a tree, perhaps with the idea of ​​getting nests. In the background, the mountainous landscape on the left is combined with the mass of a medieval castle on the right.

The tapestry resulting from this cartoon was intended as a door hanger for the decoration of "country and humorous matters " in the office of Charles IV in the palatial area of ​​San Lorenzo de El Escorial, commissioned in 1790 and the last project of this genre carried out by Goya. Two sketches for this series are known, for Las mozas de cántaro and El pelele ( Madrid , Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Los Ángeles, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art), and seven cartoons, of which five are preserved in the Museo del Prado.

[allegorypaintings]

Truth, Time and History

Artist: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)

Date: c. 1804–1808

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Description

History sits nude on a rock in the front center of the painting, holding a white quill with an open book in her lap. Wrapped around her waist is a green cloth, and another book lies open at her feet.

Time appears behind History, to the right. He is an elderly, bearded man holding an hourglass. His face looks upward so that most of the details of his features are obscured from view. Time bears large, white wings that extend outward, off the canvas on the right and on the left, behind the body of the third figure, who he grips by the arm.

There are conflicting interpretations of the identity of the woman dressed in white on the left of the painting. Most often labeled Truth, she faces the viewer with her breasts partially exposed, holding a scepter in her left hand and a gray book in her right.

The background of the painting is light on the left behind Truth and dark on the right side surrounding Time.

[royalty-nobility]

Portrait of King Charles IV

Artist: Copy of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828)

Date: 1790

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Charles IV of Spain

Charles IV (Spanish: Carlos Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Januario Serafín Diego de Borbón y Sajonia; 11 November 1748 – 20 January 1819) was King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish Empire from 1788 to 1808.

[geritsel]

Francisco Goya - a selection of the 'Black Paintings’; religion, oppression, disease and madness.

[critter-genfic-events]

Genfic Horror Recs

Spooky season, be upon us! Here are nine horror recs - from haunted houses, possessions, werewolves, and lots of body horror. Check them out under the cut, mind the tags, and of course - comment and kudos if you like them!

SOJOURN (the house that caleb built) by Mikkeneko (63860,Teen) Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, body horror, vomiting, drowning, burning, institutional violence Pairings:

When the Mighty Nein find themselves stranded in the middle of a journey, Caleb tries out a new spell for his friends – Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion. Then Caduceus wakes up in the middle of the night with to find the mansion hideously changed and Caleb… gone.

Reccer says: Written long before Caleb made the tower, this imagines the mansion as a haunted house created by Caleb's trauma and is fascinating

Let me in by Fruitbird15 (2636,Teen) Warnings: child death Pairings:

The Forest is not the only thing the blight stole from the Clay's

Reccer says: The idea of there being a dead Clay sibling that is infected with the savalirwood's rot and the Clays just dealing with it is just.. chef's kiss and terrifying

trapped in the walls of my skin by grayintogreen (3538,Teen) Warnings: None Pairings:

Lucien's return to life rapidly becomes a horror story.

Reccer says: This fic takes a brutal look at the absolute body horror that returning to life and realizing that someone else has been using your body while you were out of it would be.

Dead is the new alive by PryingBlackbird (50511,Explicit) Warnings: Graphic Violence/Torture Pairings: Vax & The Briarwoods, Background Vox Machina Ships (not focused)

When Vax sneaks into the Briarwoods room at the banquet, they kidnap him and take him to Whitestone

Reccer says: All the angst It's unfinished, but I have it on authority that the author is going to continue it soon.

Autotomous, We by InsanitySilver (53978,Teen) Warnings: None Pairings:

Kingsley seeks to disentangle himself from the Chained Oblivion by involving himself in a ritual that will take him through the deepest recesses of his mind alongside all the people he used to be.

Reccer says: This is an absolutely beautiful story that is both character exploration, tragedy, and horror story that still culminates into a bittersweet (but mostly sweet) ending. One of my favorite CR fics to date.

Itch by pigflight (1487,Teen) Warnings: None Pairings:

The first time Deliliah showed up in Laudna's head

Reccer says: I love the way that Pigflight writes Delilah and Laudna's relationship, and this is certainly horrifying!

I won't be your casualty by PryingBlackbird (1686,Teen) Warnings: None Pairings: Laudna & Delilah Briarwood

Laudna wakes up on a tree, and slowly reclaims her life.

Reccer says: There's not enough fics about what happened to Laudna the night she died, and what followed. This is a good one.

It'll Be Over Soon by NKMLN (27898,Mature) Warnings: vomiting, character death, amnesia, body dysphoria, self harm Pairings: Fjord/Jester Lavorre

When a trip to check on Bwualli goes wrong, Kingsley finds himself marooned in the Shattered Teeth, far from the reach of the gods. World history ensues.

Reccer says: Extremely good exploration of the purple tiefling. Amazing

Bitten by sparklegem (7429,Teen) Warnings: body horror, graphic depictions of violence Pairings:

A rough-and-tumble gang capture Percy and Vex and exact their vengeance on Vex for past deeds. Rather than kill her themselves, they infect Percy with lycanthropy and trap her with the ticking timebomb that is a newly turned werewolf.

Reccer says: I liked it

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[theonlinecollector]

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

Autorretrato (1815)

Academia de San Fernando, Madrid

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828) Procesión de disciplinantes (A procession of Flagellants), c.1812-14 Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

[my-outfitisamasterpiece]

Viola Davis in Gucci at the 62nd Annual Golden Globes 25'

[historypaintings]

Godoy as General

Artist: Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)

Date: 1801

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

Manuel Godoy

Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria Ríos (12 May 1767 – 4 October 1851), 1st Prince of the Peace, 1st Duke of Alcudia, 1st Duke of Sueca, 1st Baron of Mascalbó, was the First Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Spain from 1792 to 1797 and then from 1801 to 1808, and as such, one of the central Spanish political figures during the rise of Napoleon and his invasion of Spain. Godoy came to power at a young age as the favourite of King Charles IV and Queen Maria Luisa. He has been partly blamed for the Anglo-Spanish War of 1796–1808 that brought an end to the Spanish Empire. Godoy's unmatched power ended in 1808 with the Tumult of Aranjuez, which forced him into a long exile. He died in Paris in 1851.

[galleryofart]

Los Zancos (The Stilts)

Artist: Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)

Date: 1791-1792

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Two young men on high stilts head toward a window out of which a young woman leans. They are accompanied by two other young men on foot, playing the dulzaina. Groups of men wrapped in their capes and with broad-brimmed hats completely covering their faces, as well as women and children, contemplate the festive scene. As in many other works from this period, a simple, everyday subject contrasts with a deeper theme. Here, the stiltwalkers' effort to avoid falling and their gallantry with the lady in the window are a means of denouncing the struggle to survive that period's difficult social conditions. This cartoon was for one of the tapestries intended for Carlos IV's office at El Escorial .