#classical art inspired

[s0alaina]

The Cult of Shar 🪦⚫️🌌 Based on “The Four Strings of the Violin” by Edward Okuń 🎻 I was inspired by the repetition in this piece and the themes of Vanitas, death, and the devil’s violin. So we have the cult of Shar chanting, led by The Mother Superior Viconia. Shadowheart wearily eyes the Spear of Night that lays in the violin’s place. It’s surrounded by Night Orchids and Nocturne acknowledges her friend’s fate. I was beyond happy to get this piece done in time for FanX so that @jenniferjenglish could sign it🖤🖤🖤

[sunfloralchaos]

The creation of Nyria

I forgot to post this here whoops

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VGen

[sciencelings-arts]

Kill your demons, Kill 'em dead in your mirror, in your bed, in your heart, in your head Don't you look good in red Slay your devils, Kill 'em all, Take your throne, Paint the walls, And if you make it out alive, Hold that bloody head up high

Good in Red

-The Midnights

Artists commentary below the cut

First off, here's the song:

Red version, anyway let's speedrun the symbolisms:

The sword of justice is Apollo and Trucy flavored with the eyes and the diamonds, also the guard is supposed to resemble the scales of justice. There's also Apollo's bracelet and Kazuma's hachamaki, I felt like including a bit of him for the vibes. The halo of stars is used as a crown of immortality which goes with Phoenix's whole thing.

different version of the halo, more sharp and stabby and feathery. Anyway, I wanna ramble about what I was going to do with the background. So, with the theme of 'Kill your demons' I was going to try to include the silhouettes of heads on spears of the people that Phoenix dethroned, like Redd White, Manfred von Karma, Damon Gant, Matt Engarde, and Dahlia Hawthorne. As you can tell, that didn't pan out and no matter how I tried to work it, it didn't look good so I just didn't do it lol. Also, I guess the heads on spears would've gone past the point of being a little too gruesome for me, just in general.

This whole piece is based on one of the many paintings of Judith slaying Holofernes, which is why this specifically takes place in my Fem!Phoenix AU, I thought it hit harder, especially after learning about the version by Artemisia Gentileschi that's implied to be inspired by her own sexual assault. While I followed the versions where it's mostly just 'pretty lady holding a head', her version was more brutal and actually depicting the act of beheading Holofernes which was rad as hell. I just liked the Perseus and Medusa-esque pose of triumph more in the end.

My initial inspiration was Perseus and Medusa but then I stumbled upon the absolute tsunami of Baroque and Renaissance art depicting Judith and Holofernes and I just went crazy. Sure there's the whole vibe of 'cutting off the head of the snake' but there's like one statue of Perseus and it's not very interesting but people really went off on Judith. I love you women committing righteous acts of violence, and obviously, so many painters had the same thought bc holy shit.

And I drew the whole sword of justice and was only a little lazy with the blade because I knew it would be completely hidden

[korovaoverlook]

judas betrays jesus

[tabii-draws]

Gore TW

A Hazbin hotel WIP based off of Judith beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio

[aestheteasteria]

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

[toyastales]

Gold, emerald, diamond, and enamel signet ring with clock, crafted by Johannes Butz of Augsburg, Germany, 2nd quarter of the 17th Century AD.

[suntails]

touch the spindle, touch it i say!

[saint-hymn]

a minor inconvenience, really

[obsession-of-aesthetic]

"A Roman Holiday" by Frank Markham Skipworth (1889)

[meirimerens]

day 9, in which Atropos pulls the trigger.

Atropos ("the Inevitable") is the Moira that cuts the thread of man's life at its end in greek mythology. Moirai are also known as Parcae in Latin (and Fates in english), and the Parcae appear on day 9 of the Bachelor's route in the quest titled "The Three Parcae: Lara Resorts to Murder, Yulia Plays With Fate, Anna Participates", in which, well. you know ;)

the Erinyes (or Furies, ancient chthonian goddesses of vengeance and retribution) in the corners of the frame are inspired by those painted by the "python" painter (image 1, at the top of the image), one from an early 20th drawing alledgely depicting an actor dressed in Fury costume, and those from Peter Hall's 1983 staging of The Oresteia (masks by Joycelyn Herbert)

[honeybunnilieu]

boredom results in ethubs, sorry i don’t make the rules.

[whereshadowslive]

Source: Pinterest

[7seasofem]

adoration

[aestheteasteria]

Poetry in motion