"Un de ces longs bras glissa par l’ouverture"
Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Long Arm Glided
Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870
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Ace, Aro, OR BOTH?
I have made some ace/aro pride sea monsters,,, as a treat
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Delft tiles with depictions of sea monsters, sea gods, ships and fish, Netherlands, 17th century
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Big request for this one of Sleep and Vessel
Tip the artist // More Art
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Tentacles (2 of 7) - TJ Foo
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~ Two Heads of Sea Monsters.
Date: perhaps late A.D. 1st–2nd century
Place of origin: Roman Empire
Culture: Roman
Medium: Africano marble
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Andromeda by Gustave Doré
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do you have any favorite illustrations of map sea creatures? like the guys they would draw on old maps cause (imo) plain old water was just too boring? I’d love to see them if you do!!
What a great question! Weirdly, the one map everyone thinks of when thinking of sea creatures on maps?
These were very much NOT space-filling. This map illustrated Olaus Magnus' history and geography of Scandinavia, and every single thing on it (including the sea monsters) is directly taken from his book. So it's kind of like making a map of Middle Earth and putting in the locations of all the trolls and dragons and stuff! Everything here is intentional!
But in terms of monsters placed purely as decorative elements because the mapmakers felt like it, I think it's hard not to love this screaming head from Cosmographia Universalis et Exactissima by Giovanni Francesco Camocio (1569).
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"Le poulpe brandissait la victime comme une plume"
Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Brandishing it's Victim
Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870
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Happy Friday! I know it was a few days ago, but happy two year anniversary to my absolutely favorite Pixar film Luca! 💜💚🐟 Absolutely adore everything about the film from its characters, story, and art to pieces. Also counts as my favorite pride film.xD
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Midjourney AI trying to create a map with sea monsters.
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I’ve decided to draw sea monsters for inktober
Unlike than the great serpents of the depths, the sea wymes bear no scales, and may have many hundreds of legs. Here are two well documented examples.
Fig I. The writhing bowel-wyrms; when swallowed by a whale, it grows and multiplies within the body to replace its bowels entirely. An unwelcome surprise for beach combers and whalers, though they quickly flee to sea when exposed, or perish when prevented from doing so.
Fig II. The Resplendent Ship-wyrm, so named for the glittering armor which clads its body. It is the bane of untold scores of sailors, by measure of its ability to gnaw through the hull of a ship in a matter of minutes, where it may crawls about on a quest for stores of fish and whale meat, fat, and oil. The carcasses of great armored leviathans are sometimes found with holes of striking resemblance in their hides; it can be assumed these wyrms prey on the flesh of these mightiest of sea monsters as they do the stores of unwary whalers.
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