Paul Caponigro (1932–2024) - “Entrance, Reefert Church, Ireland”

With the right combination of elements, it was theorized, any substance on earth might be formed. 

H.P. Blavatsky, from The Secret Doctrine

Text ID: The primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine wisdom and perfection, and had always stood for psychical regeneration and immortality.

Endpapers from Anatole France’s Thaïs by Frank C. Pape (1926)

Stag handle knife, Europe, 19th century.

from Czerny’s International Auction House

The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel (c.1824 / oil on canvas) | Louis Daguerre

Sword, Southern Germany, 1st half of the 16th century

from The Museum of Art and History Geneva

‘Death Dawns Not on Hearts Aflame’ screen print by Adrienne Rozzi // Poison Apple Printshop

3rd printing. Limited edition of 50, hand signed and numbered by the artist.

Available exclusively at PoisonApplePrintshop.com

The solar eclipse on Wednesday, April 17th, 1912, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Alnwick Poison Garden is pretty much what you’d think it is: a garden full of plants that can kill you (among many other things). Some of the plants are so dangerous that they have to be kept behind bars. [x]