the Devil`s Vaudeville

Grotesque and Uncanny art from Renaissance until present

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Francesco de'Rossi (1510 - 1563) Phanes, the first-born

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Labels: cosmology, drawing, mannerism

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Maximilian Pirner (1853 - 1924) - Finis, the end of Everything

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Labels: allegory, memento mori, northern, oil painting, underworld, visions

Briton Riviere (1840 - 1920) - Una and the Lion

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Labels: bestiary, oil painting

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Venus and Anchises, by William blake Richmond

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Labels: garden, mythology, oil painting, preraphaelite

Aeneas in the Underworld

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Labels: Inferno Station, oil painting, underworld

Monday, July 13, 2015

Attila, king of the Huns (detail) by Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

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Labels: historical figures, history painting, romanticism

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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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Jan Brueghel II (1601 - 1678) - God creating the World

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Labels: baroque, bible, creation, northern

The Four Elements - Allegorical paintings by Cristofano Gherardi (1508 - 1556)

Water - The birth of Venus

Earth - The Offering of Fruits to Saturn

Fire - the Furnace of Vulcan

Air - The Mutilation of Uranus

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Labels: allegory, mannerism, mythology

Corneslis Saftleven (1607 - 1681) - The College of animals

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Labels: baroque, bestiary, northern, satire

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Antoine Caron (1521 - 1599) - The Triumph of Winter

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Labels: allegory, fantasia, painting

Andries Jacobsz Stock--Vanitas with Death and a maiden (after Jacob de Gheyn)

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Labels: engraving, memento mori

Apollo and Marsias - Jose de Ribera (1591 - 1652)

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Labels: baroque, mythology, painting, tenebrism

Pieter Soutman (1593–1601 – 16 August 1657) - The Fall of the Damned

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Labels: hell, Inferno Station, northern, visions

Jan Baptist Weenix (1621–1660?) - Boy with Monkey

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Labels: bestiary, surrealism

Battista Dossi - Allegory of Dawn

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Labels: allegory, architecture, painting

Jan Mandijin (1500-1560) - The Temptation of St. Anthony

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Labels: magic places, painting, renaissance, surrealism, visions

Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627) - The Second Dream of Dante

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Labels: drawing, magic places

Battista Dossi (1490 - 1548) - The Night

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Labels: bestiary, dreams, high renaissance, visions

Alessandro Allori (1535 - 1607) - Grotesque

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Labels: allegory, bestiary, grotesques

Friday, February 13, 2015

Salamander - Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)

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Labels: alchemy, bestiary, hybridism, monster, renaissance

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Four Evangelists - author unknown

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Labels: allegory, bestiary, mysticism

Daniel's Vision of the Four Beasts - Hans Holbein, the Younger (1497 - 1543)

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Labels: bestiary, visions

Monday, February 9, 2015

A centaur pursued by dragons, by Jacopo de'Barberi

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Labels: bestiary, dragon, engraving, monster

Inlays of the choir of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, by Lorenzo Lotto

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Lorenzo Lotto (1480 – 1556/57) - Allegory of Virtue and Vice

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Labels: allegory, high renaissance, painting, venetian school

Giandomenico Tiepolo, Metamorfosi di Atteone

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Inferno Station: Orpheus in the Underworld (Jan Bueghel, the Elder - 1594)

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Labels: hell, Inferno Station, northern, visions

Marcantonio Raimondi (1475-1530) - the Dream of Raphael

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Labels: dreams, engraving, visions

Marcantonio Raimondi (1475-1530) - the vision of Helena

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Labels: engraving, visions

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Map of the Republic of Venice by Jacopo de' Barbari

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Labels: architecture, high renaissance, maps, mythology, ornamental, sea-ceatures

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