Category: art
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A Medieval Good Death
An illustration of a medieval “good death.” A man in bed is struck by the figure of Death, while a monk at his side urges him to “pray Christ thy soule to save,” and Christ promises “mercie thou shall have.” The Carthusian Miscellany, England (Yorkshire or Lincolnshire), 1460-1500
From Medieval Manuscripts Blog – Byland Abbey Ghost Stories: A Guide to Medieval Ghosts
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The Dance of Death
16th Century, from wikimedia commons
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Rebel
by Gustave Doré, 1866
(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paradise_Lost_37.jpg)“Satan, now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprise which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despair; but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise whose outward prospect and situation is described; overleaps the bounds; sits in the shape of a cormorant on the tree of life, as highest in the garden, to look about him. The garden described; Satan’s first sight of Adam and Eve; his wonder at their excellent form and happy state, but with resolution to work their fall; overhears their discourse, thence gathers that the tree of knowledge was forbidden them to eat of, under penalty of death; and thereon intends to found his temptation by seducing them to transgress: then leaves them a while to know further of their state by some other means.” – Book IV, Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1674, based on text from 1817 London edition
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The Death of Cleopatra
The Death of Cleopatra, by Reginald Arthur, 1892 Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have
Immortal longings in me. Now no more
The juice of Egypt’s grape shall moist this lip.– Cleopatra,
Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, sc ii, 335-337,
Shakespeare
The Devil's Muse 
