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In Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Francesco Colonna describes the...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:18:31 -0500

In Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Francesco Colonna describes the transformation of seven nymphs into trees in the presence of the god Jupiter. A woodcut [1] illustrates the process:

“They then transformed themselves into green trees of transparent emerald, covered with bright blue flowers, which bowed devoutly to the high god. The last one was entirely turned to a tree, her feet becoming roots; the next, all but her feet; the third, all but the part from the waist to the arms; and so on, successively. But the tops of the virginal heads showed that the metamorphosis would happen to each in turn.” (Colonna 1999: 174)[2]

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Vittore Carpaccio’s Two Courtisanes[1] comes via Eduard...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:20:09 -0500

Vittore Carpaccio’s Two Courtisanes[1] comes via Eduard Fuchs’s Illustrierte Sittengeschichte.

I love the expresson of boredom on their faces.

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From Eduard Fuchs Illustrierte Sittengeschichte via...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:59:12 -0500

From Eduard Fuchs Illustrierte Sittengeschichte

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Abb.: Der unzüchtige Mönch / von N. Diaz From Eduard Fuchs...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:56:55 -0500

Abb.: Der unzüchtige Mönch / von N. Diaz

From Eduard Fuchs Illustrierte Sittengeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. — München : Langen. — Bd. 3: Das bürgerliche Zeitalter. — [1912]. — S. 88]

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Jacques Sternberg straddled the line between the fantastique and...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:09:51 -0500

Jacques Sternberg straddled the line between the fantastique and science fiction, which he stated was only a subset of the former in a notorious essay, Une Succursale du Fantastique nommée Science-Fiction [A Branch Of The Fantastic Called Science Fiction], published in 1958.

Movie ID, anyone?

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Eric Losfeld via scissors-and-paste.net

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:05:36 -0500

Eric Losfeld

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Midi Minuit Fantastique Midi Minuit Fantastique (1962 - 1971)...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:03:17 -0500

Midi Minuit Fantastique

Midi Minuit Fantastique (1962 - 1971) was a French film magazine published by Eric Losfeld and edited by Jean-Claude Romer.

Eric Losfeld (1923? - 1979) was a French publisher who had a reputation for publishing controversial material with his publishing imprints Éditions Arcanes (founded 1952) and Éditions Le Terrain Vague (founded 1955). A rival clandestine French editor was Jean-Jacques Pauvert. The difference between them was — in the words of Sarane Alexandrian: “Jean-Jacques Pauvert was an editor of surrealism, Losfeld was a surrealist editor.”

Midi- Minuit Fantastique (1962-1971)

Francesca Woodman via Outrepart via Ofellabuta via...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:57:00 -0500

Francesca Woodman via Outrepart via Ofellabuta via Fantomatik [1]

FANTOMATIK: La disparition - Francesca Woodman

hag The Night-hag Visiting The Lapland Witches[1] (c. 1796) is...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:06:27 -0500

hag

The Night-hag Visiting The Lapland Witches[1] (c. 1796) is a painting by Henry Fuseli currently located at Metropolitan Museum of Art .

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Portrait of Lozana by Francisco Delicado, German edition via...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:24:09 -0500

Portrait of Lozana by Francisco Delicado, German edition

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Pitigrilli, Cocaine (1921), cult fiction par excellence, here in...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:23:04 -0500

Pitigrilli, Cocaine (1921), cult fiction par excellence, here in a German language edition, must-read book.

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Illustration by Paul-Emile Bécat I’ve finished my thematic...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:23:29 -0500

Illustration by Paul-Emile Bécat

I’ve finished my thematic summary of Les Vies des Dames Galantes by Brantome, probable womanizer and veritable connoisseur of feminine psychology, like the fictional Don Juan and the later actual Giacomo Casanova. Les Vies is the best work of its kind since Ovid, no wonder Freud quoted the work with regards to the lapsus.

Read the full text of the seven discourses here in an A. R. Allinson translation:

Themes include the author as unreliable narrator and gossiper, older women, female infidelity and male cuckolds, chastity belts, a response to antifeminism and misogyny, forced seduction, succubi, Aretino’s positions, excitement by visual stimuli by way of paintings, lesbianism, descriptions of the female intimate parts, thirty beauties of a woman, cunnilingus, fetishism, Magdalen’s skull, intertextuality, sodomy, hermaphroditism and godemiches.

Galanterie

Here is a much better color version. wurzeltod: Flagellation of...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:02:39 -0500

Here is a much better color version.

wurzeltod:

Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave via Bibliodyssey

ARRRRGHHH!

My dentist had this etching in his operating room when I was a child!

I had to look at it constantly when I had to have (completely healthy) teeth removed (I had dreadful teeth and my mouth was too small for them - a cast of my teeth is still part of Zurich’s museum for dental history).

He used to say that looking at something very painful and gross while undergoing a painful procedure would make your brain get used to the pain and accept it.

I was 7 then and I thought he must be a man full of wisdom to wear such a supernaturally white coat.

Now I know he was just a dirty twisted old man (why the hell would you become a CHILDREN’s dentist in the first place?! o_O)

“Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave”[1] by...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:01:14 -0500

“Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave”[1] by William Blake (1796).

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Fernando Gallego does Catherine of Alexandria[1], like Martirio...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:42:18 -0500

Fernando Gallego does Catherine of Alexandria [1], like Martirio di S.Caterina[2] by Lelio Orsi

Christian martyrs, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs Tortures and...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:09:18 -0500

Christian martyrs, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs, Fom the “De ss. martyrum cruciatibus”, by Antonio Gallonio. The book was translated by Alfred Richard Allinson and published in 1903[1].

A 17th century edition was illustrated by Antonio Tempesta.

1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hair [image 1186x1651 pixels 75]

Cornelius Agrippa hath writ a brief Treatise on the virtue of...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:42:14 -0500

Cornelius Agrippa hath writ a brief Treatise on the virtue of women, and all in panegyric of this same Marguerite. The book is a right good one, as it could not but be on so fair a subject, and considering its author, who was a very notable personage. —Les Vies

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“Les petits jeux innocents” (English: Little...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:49:13 -0500

“Les petits jeux innocents” (English: Little innocent games) by Achille Devéria

What does the subtitle “Les gages tirés” (Eng: The wages from) refer to?

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“In the highly entertaining Studies of Savages and Sex by...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:07:46 -0500

“In the highly entertaining Studies of Savages and Sex by Alfred Ernest Crawley, I found St. Augustine’s famous epigram “Inter faeces et urinam nascimur”. There is also a funny reference to this in Mr. Phillips by the admirable John Lanchester.” —Ellis Nadler [1]

Ellis Nadler’s Sketchbook: The birth of Augustine

animals in art, satire, art connoisseur Monkeys as Judges of...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:00:07 -0500

animals in art, satire, art connoisseur

Monkeys as Judges of Art[1], 1889, Gabriel von Max is similar to The Monkey Connoisseurs .

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