art-and-fury:

The Docks - Sam Wolfe Connelly

demon cat of the piers
~   Ingmar Bergman, from an interview published in “The Guardian”, dated 10 April 2004 (via forgottencityiram)

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vaxhuvuden:

The Harrowing of Hell

so many great details! the intricate halos, the demons in the background, the stance of the jesus figure…
denisforkas:

Albrecht Dürer - The Harrowing Of Hell. 1512
inspirationowls:

alan lee
LAMIA
apostate666:

Virgil Finlay

totes night on bald mountain
barefootmarley:

john buckland wright
utnereader:

Exorcism is experiencing a renaissance in American Catholicism. And as interest in exorcism rises, the church faces a host of tricky questions. The devil is in the details. Keep reading …
(Image by Tom Keating)

terrifying
John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 — 10 February 1917)LamiaOil on canvas, 190557 x 36 inPrivate collectionIn  classical mythology, Lamia was a female daemon who devoured children.  According to late myths she was a queen of Libya who was beloved by  Zeus. When Hera robbed her of her children  this union, Lamia killed  every child she could get into her power. She was also known as a fiend  who, in the form of a beautiful woman, seduced young men in order to  devour them. It was this latter incarnation of Lamia as a  beautiful woman that inspired John Keats to write his poem Lamia,  published in 1820. Waterhouse bases his portrayal of Lamia upon Keats’  poem: She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue;Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard,Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr’d; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,Dissolv’d, or brighter shone, or interwreathedTheir lustres with the gloomier tapestries—So rainbow-sided, touch’d with miseries,She seem’d, at once, some penanced lady elf,Some demon’s mistress, or the demon’s self.
Opaque  by  andbamnan