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Vintage Hollywood Stars Dressed-Up as Easter Bunnies – And Why They Did It

This allegedly is how the Easter Bunny and the fine tradition of giving chocolate eggs to people on Easter Sunday morning began. ...

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Farting Drums, Sex Gods And The Namazu Catfish Quakes Censored In Edo Japan

Banned in Japan: when giant catfish shook the country ...

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The End of Days: Albrecht Dürer’s Woodcuts for ‘The Apocalypse’ – 1498

The rise of the neighbouring Ottoman Empire instilled a terror of the Turks. For many Christians, this fear had merged with a belief the coming millennium 1500 would see the end of the world as foretold in Saint John's Book of Revelation. ...

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Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

For Christmas 1960, Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) designed greeting cards for Hallmark ...

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Pavel Tchelitchew : Psychedelic Skulls, Spiritual Heads & Interior Landscapes

Pavel Tchelitchew (1898, Moscow - 1957, Rome) was a set designer, costume designer, one-time ballerina and artist who reduced the material to the spiritual and then injected it with divine energy. ...

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31 Visions of Hell, Satan, Demons And Cabbalistic Signs From A 1775 Compendium Of Horrors

Visions of Hell, Satan and Demons according to the Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros, 1775 ...

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Calaveras: José Posada’s Skeletons Celebrate Life, Mock The Elite And Hail Mexico’s Day Of the Dead (1880 – 1913)

Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada gave us calaveras, representations of the human skeleton seen in Mexico's Day of the Dead ...

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Life In Tallahassee, Florida in The 1950s – Black, White and Red All Over

Benjamin L. 'Red' Kerce's photographic record of a Florida city show us a city in turmoil ...

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Vintage Ventriloquists And Their Dummy Pals

vintage snapshots, publicity photos and actual ventriloquist dummies from the collection of Jim Linderman ...

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Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the ...

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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Brilliant Reply To Nazis in 1930s Germany – ‘I Regret I Am No Gifted Jew’

In 1938 German publishers wanted to translate J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit into German. The author's reply is damning ...

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How Medieval Artists Saw Elephants: Claws, Hooves, Trunks Like Trumpets, and Castles on Their Backs

The artists had apparently never seen elephants, but they featured prominently in bestiaries ...

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