In honor of All Saints’ Day, here are gruesome paintings of their trials. Visit Daydream Tourist’s Shocking Paintings of Martyred Saints for a full article and more paintings.
Category: art
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All Saints’ Day
Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew Giovanni Bellini – The Murder of St Peter the Martyr (detail), 1509, Courtauld Gallery, London Following his decapitation in 258 C.E., St. Denis is said to have picked up his head, walked 6 miles, and given a sermon. St. Denis Picking up His Head, 19th century, Panthéon murals, Paris (Photo) -
The Lady Ghost
by Adelaide Caxton (1841-1927)
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The Devil
Florence Baptisry mural, created c.1260, by Coppo di Marcovaldo
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Seance
This 1920 “spirit photo” by William Hope claims to show a spirit hand moving the table. (Via the National Media Museum’s Flickr page) 
In the 1910s, magician William S. Marriott demonstrates how he could make a table appear to levitate with his foot. (From the Mary Evans Picture Library/Harry Price) 
An engraving from the April 2, 1887, edition of “Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper” shows a séance with a floating guitar and a spirit hand writing messages. (Courtesy of MysteriousPlanchette.com) 
The sheet music for 1920’s “Weegee Weegee Tell Me Do” shows lovers playing with a talking board. (From the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University) 
This 1865 broadsheet reads, “These Pictures are intended to show that Modern Spiritualism of A.D. 1865 … was described and practised thousands of years since under the names of Witchcraft.” (Via WikiCommons) Images and captions from an interesting and detailed article on spiritualism from Collectors Weekly, Ghosts in the Machines: The Devices and Daring Mediums That Spoke for the Dead.
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Ghostly Figure Leads Time and Death
Flitting Ghosts, from Puck on Pegasus, 1868
Source: Old Book IllustrationsA ghostly female figure floats in the night, one arm wrapped around the chimney of a locomotive, as she points forward and leads the way for the figures of Time and Death following in her wake.
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Spooky 19th-century Book Illustrations by French Artist Édouard de Beaumont
Ou satan continuera de régner sur la terre (Or Satan will keep ruling over the Earth), 1871 
Des phénomènes les plus frappants du cauchemar (The most striking phenomenons of nightmares), 1871 
Il a fait assiéger par des fantômes de sa création votre maison de la Brenta (He had your Brenta Valley house besieged with ghosts of his own making), 1871 
Tailpiece with skull and scowling cat, 1871 -
Bunnicula
Happy Easter, boys and ghouls!
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Horror Houses
I love these paintings of iconic horror houses by Jason Edmiston.
Sawyer Family House from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 
Bates’ House from Psycho 
Myers Family House from Halloween
