"La Condesa Sangrienta"

Phaethon (1878) by Gustave Moreau

Samuel Araya art

As a joke you had always said "I dedicate this to Hades" as you threw away food scraps from your cooking and cleaning your plates. When you die you find yourself in front of Charon's boat with Hades sitting in it, seemingly very excited to see his most devoted follower in recent times.

Drzewo życia Ernsta Haeckela, metaforyczny opis Darwina wzoru powszechnego wspólnego pochodzenia w formie dosłownej, 1879

Ernst Haeckel’s Tree of Life, Darwin’s metaphorical description of the pattern of universal common descent made literal, 1879

Philip Reisman Frolic Club IV New York City 1960s

Alméry Lobel-Riche (1877–1950) - The Sun of Death, 1922

Święta Małgorzata wyłaniająca się ze smoka, który ją połknął, w „brewiarzu Josta von Silenena”, Valais, ok. 1493 r.

st. margaret emerging from the dragon that swallowed her

in the "breviary of jost von silenen", valais, c. 1493

source: Zurich, SNM, LM 4624.2, fol. 289r