#alchemical art

[nyxshadowhawk]

A selection of images from a sequence depicting the alchemical process, from an early modern manuscript.

[cuties-in-codices]

rebis figure

in an alchemical-medical manuscript ("hausbuch des pfarrers valentinus aus ottrau"), germany, ca. 1529

source: Kassel, UB, 4° Ms. chem. 82, fol. 15r

[f0restpunk]

[arcane-offerings]

Johannes Lambspring, Alchemistiches Lehrgedicht, German, 1556, MS P 2177, Zürich Central Library, Switzerland.

[liminal-crypted]

Never got along with automatic drawing

It’s difficult to just let go of pressure to create “something”.

It doesn’t have to be anything yet there’s a strange need to make it so.

Further attempts are necessary.

[buggz4brainzzz]

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

Anoushka Shankar - What Will We Remember? (Official Audio)

[gabbycallan]

cycles continue until all degrades into the nothingness of chaos.

[learnorneverrealize1888000888]

[etherealcry]

[nyxshadowhawk]

The Ripley Scroll! A sixteenth-century manuscript with astounding alchemical art and a Middle English poem by George Ripley.

(Mellon MS 41 at the Beinecke.)

[alchemister]

Symbolism very common to many alchemical texts. The green lion eats the sun, aqua regia dissolves gold. Very poetic. - Alchemister

Illustration from Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium, c. 1760

[jareckiworld]

Julia Curyło — Lion Devouring the Sun (oil on canvas, 2022)

[cy-lindric]

An angel. Alchemy treaty Aurora Consurgens, 1420-1450

[gregorygris]

Forest Fire

[luridmoonlight]

Yeah so,

Have current work on my catte.