La Mort de Socrate | Jacques-Louis David 1787

Rinaldo Barbetti (Italian, 1830-1904) after William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Cupid and Psyche, 1900

L'Aurore Boréale (1892)

— by Henri Camille Danger

A painted example of the Fuji Mandara (富士曼荼羅), a mandala depicting the sacred landscape of Mount Fuji populated with earnest pilgrims making their way to the peaks above inhabited by three manifesting Buddhist deities

Color on silk dating to the Muromachi period (1336-1573) from the collection of Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha Grand Shrine (富士山本宮浅間大社) in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture

Image from "Shintō: The Sacred Art of Ancient Japan" edited by Victor Harris, published by the British Museum Press. 2001, page 181

by Ida Lissner

A Continental Art Nouveau Ceramic Butterfly Statue

.c. 1900

Marks : P. Feffer

Source: Héritage Auctions

Photography by Xuebing Du

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René Magritte

Souvenir de voyage III, 1951

Oil on canvas.

Desert Eye, by Elliot McGucken.

Arches National Park, Moab, UT

Psyche Opening the Golden Box by John William Waterhouse (1903)

"Arcana 18 represents the Moon as a silver disc on which is outlined in profile a feminine face with puffy features. From the disc come long yellow rays between which appear short red glows. These colours attribute to the Moon a weak spiritual activity (red) but a great strength in the sphere of materiality (yellow).

That signifies that the imagination, or lunar faculty, favours the visionary by giving objective form to his thought, but it scarcely helps to understand and to seize the real essence of things. Although Hecate is deceiving we must pass through her school in order to learn not to be the dupe of her phantasmagoria.

The spilt drops, red, green and yellow which the Moon seems to attract correspond to the globes of the same colour in arcana 16, but the emanations from the earth go to the satellite which takes without giving anything in return. The cold light and the night star tend to reabsorb the vitality which the Sun gives off, hence the popular advice never to sleep exposed to the Moon’s rays." — Tarot Of The Magicians By Oswald Wirth

Edith Valentine Tenbrink (American, b. 1883, Iowa - d. 1963, California)

"The Spiritual Body" 1944, mixed media on board, 24 x 18 inches.

Figurine of Aphrodite holding a double cornucopia with Eros seated on her knee Greek, East Greek Hellenistic Period late 1st century B.C.

Immagine del manoscritto Zoroaster Clavis Artis, Ms-2-27, Biblioteca Civica Hortis, Trieste, vol. 2, pag. 27

Scarab ring Egyptian New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Thumose III 1479–1425 B.C.

Statuette of Eros as Harpokrates carrying a cornucopia the Diphilos' workshop Greek, East Greek Hellenistic or Imperial Period late 1st century B.C. – early 1st century A.D.