The Awakening Of The Poet, Gabriel Ferrier (1899)

La Dame a la Licorne by Armand Point (1898)

The snow Queen by Artuš Scheiner (1863 – 1938)

Philip Alexius de László 

Hungarian, 1869-1937

The Lady & The Unicorn, oil on linen, Hannah Flowers

Illustrations from Stories from Hans Christian Andersen by Edmund Dulac (1911)

Forest Lake with Water Lilies in Bloom and Numerous Insects, c.  1869.

Anthonore Christensen, (Danish, 1849 - 1926) 

"O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,"

White Mourning

“I always find it strange, how rarely evil comes dressed for the part. One might expect a wicked being to look like this creature—horned and fetid, unmistakable. And yet, the truest threats arrive masked as angels of light.”

Summary: In the dead of winter night, the betrothed arrives. A dragon rots in a filthy cage, brought as proof of a holy slaughter. In a castle thick with secrets and snow, the bride, haunted by the dreams of fire, begins to stray. And when the wedding bells ring, the veils will be drawn for mourning.

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i remember learning the word melancholy at age 7 or something and thinking oh this word's gonna be huge for me

Narcissus and Echo by Solomon Joseph Solomon (1895)