Pieter van der Heyden: The Descent of Christ into Limbo (1551)
In the Christian tradition, between his death on the cross and the resurrection Christ descended into Hell to rescue the souls of the righteous who lived before him and thus, without that knowledge, could not have been saved; this includes Adam, Eve, Moses, King David, and other figures from the Old Testament. Click for detail.
One of Frederick Cayley Robinson’s set designs for The Blue Bird, Maurice Maeterlinck’s “Fairy Play” about Tyltyl and Mytyl, the children of a poor woodcutter, who are sent out by the Fairy Bérylune to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. They have many adventures, but ultimately find the bird in their own backyard.
Northern door of St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, Tolkien’s inspiration for the West Gate of Moria.
Elihu Vedder: The Gloomy Path (1865)
Ernest Bieler: Les Moutons à Montorge (1913)
Vincent van Gogh: A Pair of Leather Clogs (1889)
Hand-cranked mimeograph machine used by the Belgian resistance to produce underground newspapers and pamphlets during the Nazi occupation. (source)
Marsden Hartley: Earth Cooling, Mexico (1932)
Sergei Isupov: Firey (2009) (source)
City of Light diorama, 1939 New York City World’s Fair
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