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Pietro Tenerani: Psyche in a Feint (1869)

Pan and Bacchante, 1834, by James Pradier.

Marianne Stokes

Death and The Maiden (c. 1908)

(detail)

Unknown Artist

Hekataion (Hecate, goddess of the Moon and the underworld, was depicted with three bodies), 3rd. cent AD, Roman sculpture of triple Hecate, after a Hellenistic original, marble

Vatican Museums (Chiaramonti Museum),  Inv. 1922

Valère Bernard

Prophetess [...] Of blood seared by the venomous spells and prestigia of desire exciting in the bend of your nocturnal throat the voracity of vampires, vast dance of nuptial gravitations.

— ROGER GILBERT-LECOMTE ⚜️ BLACK MIRROR: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, transl. by David Rattray, (2010)

Armored breastplate crafted by Filippo Negroli (fl.1532-51), made of metal. Currently part of the collection at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy.

Galileo Galilei, February 15, 1564 / 2019

(image: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, facsimile of the 1610 edition)

Stag handle knife, Europe, 19th century.

from Czerny’s International Auction House