Archives Curated By a Weirdo
Hell adventures depicted by the artist Priamo della Quercia, from the 15th century. Most are references to the 1320 book “The Divine Comedy” or more commonly known as “Dante’s Inferno”.
Images are from the British Library and Wikimedia Commons, under Public Domain License.
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The word Pandemonium was coined by John Milton in “Paradise Lost”. It was a place of chaos and filled with demons – basically hell. This image captions it perfectly!
Image is from the Yale Center for British Art and Wikimedia Commons, under Public Domain Dedication.
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The 17th century seemed to be obsessed with skeleton illustrations, and these animals are surely a product of that. They bones seem to be so alive, ironically.
Images are from the Rijksmuseum and Wikimedia Commons, under Public Domain License.
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This horse skull Chromolithograph is from an unknown artist. A Chromolithograph is a multi-color print made by stamping paper with stone plates covered in ink. Actually, I oversimplified the process a lot – feel free to read more about them at Wikipedia.
Image is from the Wellcome Collection and is under Public Domain License. Information is from Wikipedia(CC BY-SA 3.0).
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The source labels this as Sydney Oddities, which I think refers to a collection of odd images by the photographer Ray Olsen. Mannequins are creepy and uncanny, so very fitting.
Image is from the State Library of New South Wales and is under Public Domain License.
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This is an old postcard depicting ventriloquist Alan Stainer and his very creepy doll. Alan and his little buddy were part of an entertainment group called “The Gaieties” – and also a part of our nightmares.
Image is from the Australian National Maritime Museum and is under Public Domain License.
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The Lombrosian skull is named after its maker, Cesare Lombroso. Cesare was a phrenologist. Phrenology is a pseudoscience which involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits.
Image is from the Careggi Institute of Pathological Human Anatomy Museum. Photo was taken by Sailko and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Information is from Wikipedia(CC BY-SA 3.0).
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Silver gelatin photograph of taken in 1941, which I have nicknamed “Gas Mask Fear”. From the Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria. The photographer is unknown. The background is unknown. The fear is unknown.
Image is from the State Library Victoria and is under Public Domain License.
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The Bonnacon is a legendary creature described as a bull with inward-curving horns and a horse like mane. Not too out of the ordinary – except… it expels large amounts of caustic feces from its anus!! Don’t worry though, besides for being a fictional creature, the character only uses its magic butt powers for self defense.
Image is from Wikimedia Commons and is under Public Domain License. Information from Wikipedia(CC BY-SA 3.0).
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Photographs of preserved Atolla Jelly Fish specimen Jars which were made in 1880. Photographed in 2019 by Eric A. Lazo-Wasem. Fun fact, this was one of my most popular posts on my previous site (TheLeery.com) and one of the most successful reddit posts I ever had. 😀 So kind of a throwback. Hope you enjoy it!
Images are from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and Wikimedia Commons, under Public Domain Dedication.
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