Category Archives: Picture Collection
Religion – Christianity – Nativity +++
Our Religion categories are subdivided:
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Judaism
Christianity is further subdivided:
- Clergy, Monks & Nuns
- Congregations
- Crucifixion & Resurrection
- General
- Madonna & Child
- Nativity
Below is a small sample from Religion – Christianity – Nativity.
The Nativity by Nardon Penicaud. Enamel. Early 1500s.
Three Kings of Orient. Unknown Artist. 1400s. Photo by Nelson Morris.
The Nativity by Juan de Flandes. Early 1500’s.
The Journey of the Magi. Sassetta (Stefano di Giavanni).
Sienese, 1392?-1450/51
Holidays – Halloween
Happy Halloween!!
Creature from the Black Lagoon Mask
October 1960
October 1973
Illustration by Adam McCauley
1984 Advertisement for CapriSun
Sun Maid Raisins Advertisement, October 1965.
Advertisement by the California Raisin Advisory Board, October 1975.
Advertisement for Nickel Stainless Steel
Life, September 18, 1964.
Ricky’s Poster Advertisement, 2003.
Ricky’s Poster Advertisement, 2003.
October 24, 197[?]
Animals – Spiders +++
Among approximately 80 pictures in Animals – Spiders are these charmers:
The web of a bowl and doily spider. Our First Spider Picture is Spiderless.
Check out the frantic and dark Coffin Joe from our DVD Collection:
At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul
This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse
Good Old Coffin Joe and his Trilogy of fine Films. This still is from “This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse” 1967.
Peruvian Pinktoe
Garter Snake Stuck in a Spider’s Web
Wind Scorpian, Audubon Society Book of Insects, 1983
Mythology & Fairy Tale – Monsters & Devils
We continue our pictorial lead up to Halloween with a bit of the beastly. In the Mythology & Fairy Tale – Monsters & Devils folder you will find 93 images. Below we offer, like so many virgins on a satanic alter table, a sampling. Please enjoy the smooth electro stylings of the Electric Hellfire Club while you peruse them.
Old Rosicurian Order Illustration of Kabbalistic symbolism
Ritual America, 2012, by Adam Parfrey and Craig Heimbichner.
“The Last Judgement” by Fra Angelico
(detail)
Illustration CA. 1910-1919, reprinted in Smithsonian Magazine, 2003
The Life Book of Christmas, Vol 2: The Pageantry of Christmas, 1963.
“Horror and Drollery are combined in this 15th century illustration of a miracle play. It depicts angels battling a band of devils for possession of the Castle of Faith.”
“Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons” by Martin Schongauer
From the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacob S. Rogers Fund, 1920.
Previews, July 1991.
Dürer, the harrowing of hell, 1512
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Previews, July 1991 [?]
Scenes from the unreleased ending of The Phantom of the Opera, Dir. Rupert Julian, 1925.
Pictured: stars Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin
“The Phantom is redeemed by Christne’s compassionate kiss.”
Film Still
Eyes Without a Face, 1960, Dir. Georges Franju.
Starring Edith Scob (Pictured)
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Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street
Cemeteries
From the longer poem Outside the Ossuary by David Pemberton
In the Cemeteries folder there are 80 pictures. Here are a few:
Ancient Sarcophagi
Wethersfield, Connecticut
Chester Street Burying-Ground
The Century Magazine, Vol XXVIII, No 5. September 1884.
The Cappucine Cemetery
Travel, January 1927.
Little Falls Cemetery
Grave of Three Soldiers, Germany, 1949.
Photo by David Seymour “Chim”
City of the Dead
Cairo, Egypt
From the longer poem Outside the Ossuary by David Pemberton
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