Love is the Devil

…

George Dyer in the Reece Mews Studio – photograph by John Deakin, 1964
(Dyer in Francis Bacon’s studio)

…

…

Morning Flavour – Blasphemous Boldness

…

Melun Diptych by Jean Fouquet
(Named after the French city where the diptych used to be kept.)

 

Left Wing: Etienne Chevalier with his patron saint St. Steven
(Chevalier was treasurer to King Charles VII, this diptych was intended to be displayed on his grave)
tempera on panel c. 1450
Germäldegalerie, Berlin

…

Right Wing: Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels
(Model believed to be Agnes Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII)
tempera on panel c. 1450
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

…

…

…

Critters

…

Der Rabe, Carl Spitzweg, c. 1840 (Baxerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich)

…

 

Hoof Heels, Roxanne Jackson, 2010, ceramic, platinum gold luster, flock, glaze, fur

…

 

Skeletor  and Panthor, Masters of the Universe Classics action figures, 2011

 

…

 

 

symbolist shadows from the renaissance

♥

Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo, circa 1431 – Mantua, 1506)
Parnassus

circa 1496-1497
Canvas; H. 1.59 m; W. 1.92 m
Paris, Musée du Louvre, dép. des Peintures, inv. . 370

 

Inspiration of the moment

Look from Katy Eary‘s 2010 Spring-Summer Collection : Naked Lunch