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mkarmstr: Karin Mamma Andersson
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artifoundandliked: Karin Mamma Andersson
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sugarmeows: Illustration of Demons with woman pouring poison into ear of her sleeping father, mother dead in her bed, from Monografia; las Obras de Jose Guadalupe Posada (1930)
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androphilia: 19th Century Tibetan Tiger Rug @ The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York
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lunar-danse: cocoroachchanel: “Xiang-liu” (相柳, a legendary serpent in China) from the Kaiki-chōjū-zukan (怪奇鳥獣図巻, Japanese picture) (via File:Kaiki-choju Xiang-liu.jpg - Wikimedia Commons )
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lunar-danse: 18th century manuscript illustrated by Zoroaster & Clavis Artis
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lunar-danse: Paul Haustein (1880-1944)Hyacinths, Illustration for Jugend Magazine
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lunar-danse: ‘Centifrons Idolum Iani Hoc est: Metoposcopia Seu Prosopomantia’ by Johannes Praetorius, 1661Metoposcopy is a pseudo-science that was developed in the 16th century by the Italian Renaissance mathematician, Gerolamo Cardano.  An individual’s specific pattern of forehead wrinkles was used to analyse their character and, when combined with astrological interpretations, helped a clairvoyant make predictions about the person’s destiny. There are apparently a number of works devoted to the subject from the 17th century and this sort of foolish personality and divination technique is related, to an extent, to the 18th and 19th century obsessions of physiognomy and phrenology.
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lunar-danse: Otto Eckmann Schwertlilien (Irises) ---1895, Color Woodcut.
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Sara Crisp, untitled (three rings) (2007)
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transylvanianmisanthropy: ©Girolamo Porro
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