lamb & serpent

Inspiration from the natural world and the occult.

Bibliophile. Ombrophile. Cinephile. Lost girl trying to get by.

" Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been. I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell."
-Dante Gabriel Rossetti

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Alice Duke. Cerberus. Pencil and photoshop.

necspenecmetu:

Alessandro Varotari (Il Padovanino), Saint Sebastian, 17th century

Weep for the pigeons by Devon Smith

details @ Maison Martin Margiela Spring 2007 couture.

cavetocanvas:

Thomas Couture, The Fugitive (study), c. 1857

snowce:

Serge Marshennikov

deadpaint:

Herbert James Draper, The Lament for Icarus (Detail)

from El Rey David (King David) by Ignacio de Ríes
after 1650

artemisdreaming:

The Soul Breaking the Ties That Bind It to Earth
Pierre-Paul Prud’hon
The Soul Breaking the Ties That Bind It to Earth. Possibly Prud’hon’s last work, the huge painting — more than nine feet tall — personifies the soul as a voluptuous young woman with wings, leaping upward toward the light. “She is nude,” wrote Eugene Delacroix, “having loosed the heavy mantle of this mortal life, which lies in a heap at ther feet.” via: artnet
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Detail

Artemis: See archive for additional Prud’hon

by Jillian Tamaki
TANUKI 狸・貍
The fox-like Tanuki appear often in Japanese folklore as shape-shifters with supernatural powers and mischievous tendencies. In their earliest malevolent manifestations (transmitted via Chinese fox lore to Japan by at least the 7th century CE), Tanuki assumed human form, haunted and possessed people, and were considered omens of misfortune. Many centuries later in Japan, they evolved into irrepressible tricksters, aiming their illusory magic and mystifying belly-drum music at unwary travelers, hunters, woodsmen, and monks.

serpentskirt:

‘Heart’s Ease’ William P. W. Dana (1833–1927) Date: 1863. Medium: Oil on canvas

necspenecmetu:

Grigory Karpovich Mikhailov, Prometheus, 1839

saintehorreur:

sebastiane, 1976