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Mephistopheles Over Wittenberg (From Goethe’s Faust), 1839, Eugène Delacroix

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Santiago Caruso 

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Santiago Caruso - The Blind Eye

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Detail: Allegory of Death, Johann Gottfried Haid, 1745

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Santiago Caruso - The Abyss

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Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) , une femme, une artiste, une écrivaine d’exception! Elle appartient au symbolisme suédois. Elle a illustré de nombreux poèmes de Baudelaire et d’Edgar Poe. 

Tyra Kleen, Sunflowergirl, 1898.

- San Felice Circeo, 1904.

-  L’horreur de vivre, 1907.

- Tyra Kleen vers 1910.

- L’amour et le crâne (Les Fleurs du Mal), 1902.

-  Nevermore.

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Steffi Grant

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Vernon Hill (1887-1953), ‘Sweet William’s Ghost’, “Ballads Weird and Wonderful” by Richard Pearse Chope, 1912 Source “Sweet William’s Ghost  is an English Ballad and folk song which exists in many lyrical variations and musical arrangements. A lover, usually named William or a variant, appears as a ghost to his love, usually Margaret or a variant. He asks her to release him from his promise to marry her. She may insist that he actually marry her, but he says that he is dead; she may insist that he kiss her, but he says that one kiss would kill her; she may insist on some information about the afterlife, and he tells her some of it; he may tell her that his promise to marry her is a hellhound that will destroy him if she does not free him. In the end she always releases him from his promise, although in some versions she then dies upon his grave.” Source

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The Journey of the Soul (pasted into copy of vellum edition of Anathema of Zos) Austin Osman Spare 1921

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Austin Osman Spare, The Journey of the Soul, 1921

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The frontispiece and pages 42 and 43 from Behind the Veil written by Ethel Wheeler and illustrated by Austin O. Spare, published at the Sign of the Phoenix Longacre, London, by David and Nutt 1906.

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above; The witches’ sabbath; a hooded witch rides a monster which is held by a winged demon, figures to the right, an owl in the upper left corner, after a print by Picart after a composition by Parmigianino (?). c. 1732

below; The witches’ sabbath; a hooded witch rides a collosal phallus which is held by a winged demon, figures to the left, an owl in the upper right corner, a caricature of man’s face in profile on the bottom margin of the print, after Parmigianino (?). c.1732

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Histoire de la Magie, 1870 

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Armando Crispino Macchie solari 1975

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Julia Soboleva

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From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.

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