the Devil`s Vaudeville

Grotesque and Uncanny art from Renaissance until present

Monday, June 15, 2015

The Souls of Acheron - Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1860 - 1933)


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Labels: allegory, painting, romanticism

Rinaldo Carnielo (1853 - 1910) - Tenax Vitae (Clinging Life)



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Labels: allegory, death, memento mori, romanticism, sculpture

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Death on the Barricades, by Alfred Rethel (1818 - 1859)


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Labels: death, engraving, memento mori

Three Versions of the Isle of the Dead, by Arnold Bocklin




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The Devil`s VauDeville is a blog that was created out of my personal love and interest for works of art that depict bizarre, grotesque, magical and sometimes fantastical motives and tropes.


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