the book of disquiet

medieval:

Portrait of Luke the Evangelist from the Gospels of Otto III. Late 10th or early 11th C.  

mirrormaskcamera:

(via Little Hokum Rag: The World Underground 1741)

Ludvig Holberg’s The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground

23silence:

Anonyme - Phrosine et Mélidor, 19e siècle

fyeah-history:

Templars being burned at the stake, illustration from 1384
The Knights Templar were among the most famous of the Western Christian military orders. The organization existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle Ages. Officially endorsed by the Catholic Church around 1129, the Order became a favored charity throughout Christendom, and grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights, in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades. Non-combatant members of the Order managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom, innovating financial techniques that were an early form of banking, and building fortifications across Europe and the Holy Land.

oldbookillustrations:

Headpiece vignette to chapter 6: first day.

Bertall, from Le monde tel qu’il sera (The world as it will be), by Émile Souvestre, illustrated by Bertall, O. Penguilly L’Haridon and Prosper Saint Germain, Paris, 1846.

(Source: archive.org)

23silence:

Franz Gerhard von Kugelgen - Allegory of Grief, 1815

funeral-wreaths:

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bocca Baciata (detail), c. 1859

liquidnight:

Theodor and Oscar Hofmeister

The Solitary Horseman, 1904

Photogravure

From Stieglitz: Camera Work (25th Anniversary Special Edition)

fuckinggermans:

Prästgatan, Stockholm

oldbookillustrations:

The emperor felt as if some one was sitting on his chest. He opened his eyes, and then he saw it was Death.

Hans Tegner, from Fairy tales and stories, by Hans Christian Andersen, New York, 1900.

(Source: archive.org)