Items matching spooky (results page 1)

Panik! Detail: Medusa Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

Medusa has snakes for hair and don’t look, Medusa’s gaze will turn you to stone!

This is a detail from Panik! Panik!M painted orange.

Keywords: mythical creatures, medusa, colour, snakes, faces, horror, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-16

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Knight, Death and the Devil (1513) Engravings on metal by Albrecht Duerer

This is one of three engravings in a series called Meisterstiche. The others are Melancholia I and Saint Jerome in His Study. The engraving is dated 1513, two hundred years after the dissolution of t [...]

Keywords: knights, death, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-06-25

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18. Five Skulls Fabrica... (1543)

The top-left skull here is normal, and the others are abnormal.

Keywords: anatomy, skulls, death, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-11-03

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Full Page Border With Alchemical And Zodiacal Symbols and Signs The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer (Book II) (1801)

I made this full-page border using some of the astrological and occult signs and symbols from the table Names of Angels and Days; the table is not square, so niether is this border, for a more antique [...]

Keywords: borders, astrology, symbols, occult, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-16

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detail: swinging corpse: silhouette Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

A version of the swinging corpose cartoon with the details obliterated, leaving just an outline.

Keywords: spooky, death, people, punishments, cartoons, humour, silhouettes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-15

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Page detail: Art Neuveau border The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A detail from the January Week 1 page showing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull.

Keywords: borders, cats, skulls, sketches, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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Romantic and Atmospheric Graveyard World’s Best Music (1900)

Tombstones sit in long grass under a spreading tree. There is also a tomb visible, as well as a number of graves.

Keywords: gravestones, trees, churchyards, spooky, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2007-10-28

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A Woman torn in peices by the Devil. pa. 14. Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The “pa. 14.” refers to page 14, which has the following text: “XVII. At Oster, a Village in Germany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, b [...]

Keywords: religion, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany

Added: 2006-07-28

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detail: swinging corpse Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

This is a version of A Reluctant Tax Payer with the background cut away, to make a more powerful (but less moody) image. A dead man is shown hung by the neck, “you are to be taken from this place and [...]

Keywords: spooky, death, people, punishments, cartoons, humour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-15

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Plate XV.—Anatomy. Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

A naked man is shown, without his skin, so that the muscles can be seen, in order to teach anatomy. The muscles immediately under the common teguments on the anterior part of the body, are represeted [...]

Keywords: anatomy, diagrams, spooky, nudity, bare feet, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-22

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163. Skeleton with Shovel Fabrica... (1543)

The skeleton here leans on a shovel; there is a fresh grave by his foot, presumably that he has dug himself.

Keywords: anatomy, skeletons, death, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-11-03

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Grotesque Head [detail] Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

A good picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween!

A detail from Grotesque Head

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, horror, mythical creatures, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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