A Victorian mansion, built around 1890 on a very isolated rural road. Very difficult to find if you don’t know the exact coordinates, but worth the drive down many snowy gravel roads. The silence inside the huge, three story space is jarring. The tower is incredibly claustrophobia inducing.
A gold ‘Lovers Brooch’ dated 1435 from Austria, decorated with rubies, pearls, and enamel.
Displayed in the Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna.
Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)
Fall of the Angels sits at the high altar of Saint Michael’s Church, Vienna. The high altar was designed in 1782 by Jean-Baptiste d’Avrange. But the monumental stucco alabaster Rococo sculpture Fall of the Angels was created by sculptor Karl Georg Merville. It was the last major Baroque work completed in Vienna in 1782.
It represents a cloudburst of angels and cherubs, falling from the ceiling towards the ground. In the centre the archangel Michael raises a flaming dart against the angelic rebels. Revelation 12:7 calls their leader “the dragon,” but here all the fallen angels are represented anthropomorphically.
Saint Michael’s Church is one of the oldest churches in Vienna, Austria, and also one of its few remaining Romanesque buildings. Dedicated to the Archangel Michael, St. Michael’s Church is located at Michaelerplatz across from St. Michael’s Gate at the Hofburg Palace. St. Michael’s used to be the parish church of the Imperial Court, when it was called Zum Heiligen Michael.
’The Mould Objects’ by Martin Laforet https://thisispaper.com/mag/mould-objects-martin-laforet
John Wesley Chumley (1928-1984) — The Young Artist [tempera on board, 1957]
Chinese-made ivory card cover. Dated to the 19th Century, acquired in 1920
From the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Department of Product Design and Decorative Arts
HAGIWARA Hideo（萩原英雄 Japanese, 1913-2007）
from the series “Thirty-six views of Mt.Fuji” 三十六富士 Remaining flowers 名残りの花 1981-1986 Woodblock print via
Egyptian Statue of a deified individual covered with magic spells and deities,
c. 672-342 BC.
Naples National Archaeological Museum.
