1. Notes: 226 / 9 months ago  from ubu507
   

   Elle aimait trop le bal, c’est ce qui l ‘a tuée..  [Victor Hugo, Fantômes]

   Waltz of Death by Gustave Adolf Mossa, 1906

   Watercolor and black chalk

   from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

   thanks to ubu507

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2. Notes: 123 / 1 year ago  from bookmarklet
   

   František Kupka,The Song of Songs, c.1904

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3. Notes: 254 / 2 years ago 
   

   Szał uniesień also known as Ecstasy  or Frenzy of Exultations, 1893 

   by Władysław Podkowiński

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4. Notes: 18 / 2 years ago 
   

   The Sphinx -Frontispiece for Les Diaboliques * by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly by Felicien Rops

   from The Pictorial Arts

   [it’s a repost but i’m loving it that much;]

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5. Notes: 95 / 2 years ago  from bookmarklet
   

   ¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!  

   Gods of the Modern World, 1932 

   by  José Clemente Orozco

   [part of a mural located at Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire]

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