Poe Walking on the High Bridge
~ Bernard Jacob Rosenmeyer (circa 1900)

"Adagio" by Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750)
Performeed by Per-Olov Kindgren.

#music #guitar #classicalguitar #melancholy #adagio

Three paintings of The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse.

"She look'd down to Camelot.
It was the closing of the day:
She loos'd the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott."
- Tennyson

#art #LadyofShalott #Waterhouse #Tennyson #melancholy #death

Later, we shall walk the same path through the boneyard to midnight mass. It shall be more ghost-crowded then, for in death many seem to remember the ritual of life and walk beside us. Each year adds to the roll of phantoms. – #CLNolan in a letter to #ArthurMachen, 1929

Aythis - The Endless
Album: Celestial Exile 2024

#music #aythis #neoclassicalambient #neoclassical #ambient #atmospheric #darkwave

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#photography #photo #blackandwhite #bwphotography #monochrome #noiretblanc #thefield

#photography #photo #blackandwhite #bwphotography #monochrome #noiretblanc #thefield

The Dead Bird

These paintings of girls mourning the death of their pet birds evoke the sadness inherent in loss and mourning, the dark melancholy of lost love, and the 'memento mori' of our brief fleeting existence.

#art #melancholy #mourning #death #painting

Fallen. A walk through the cemetery on a damp and misty day.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #ClassicMono #trees #treeclub

Once you've seen tombs described as 'dream incubation chambers for the dead', it's hard not to think of what those dead dreams might be. Are they remembrance of sunlight or an enfolding of shadows, rage against brick thwarted access to the corpse paths? – #MattAdams

John Dowland - Flow My Tears
performed by LUTEVOICE :
Valeria Mignaco, soprano
Alfonso Marin, lute
@ English Reformed Church (Engelse Kerk), Amsterdam 13-02-2010

#music #JohnDowland #Lachrimae #melancholy #Renaissance

He's behind you! #MementoMoriMonday #Christmaspanto

Ivory memento mori rosary pendant showing a worm-ridden cadaver/skeleton and a living lady in Tudor dress. c. 1500
www.visitpham.org/objects/301619
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Through the Glass | Kevin Nkrumah

#SpoliaSunday gives us an example of human remains as #spolia. This is a #cross made of the skulls of the poor dead, collected by a pious confraternity in the C18-C19 to give them #Christian burial in the #crypt of S. Maria della #Morte in #Rome. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Darkher : Love's Sudden Death

The aethereal melancholy which permeates this fifth song from Darkher's album "The Buried Storm" evokes an eerie atmosphere of wraith-like despair from the very chthonic depths of her soul.

#Darkher #music #darkwave #doommetal #darkfolk #love #death #loveanddeath