'16th-century English Devil, Applying Cosmetics' In Masks - Jamie Shalleck (1973)

© Nona Limmen {via Instagram}

Pietro Tenerani: Psyche in a Feint (1869)

𝔗𝔥𝔢 ℭ𝔲𝔯𝔢 – 𝔄 𝔉𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔱

Woodblock carving of sea wormwood (left) used to print a page (right) of a botany book, European, c. 1560’s. [6666x4992]

Source: https://reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/9iwem0/woodblock_carving_of_sea_wormwood_left_used_to/

Silver mirror, Roman, 4th century AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It was as if something was perpetually tugging her downward, toward the underworld, the mess, the dirt, and the filth, as if she was unable to feel disgust when others did and was overwhelmed by fascination instead.

Ia Genburg, The Details, tr. Kira Josefsson

NOSFERATU (2024), dir. Robert Eggers

Axel Torvenius