The Kiss of Death

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John Kenn Mortensen

"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."

Laocoön

Laocoön and His Sons

Giorgio De Chirico, The Archaeologists, 1940

Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Vices - Lechery, mid 16th Century

Anselm Kiefer at the Royal Academy review – ‘an exciting rollercoaster ride of beauty, horror and history’

Inside Anselm Kiefer's astonishing 200-acre art studio

Anselm Kiefer, The Rhine (Melancholia), 1982-2013

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Truth Rising from her Well, 1896

Luis Ricardo Falero, Witches going to their Sabbath, 1878

Vasily Vereshchagin, The Apotheosis of War, 1871

Hovsep Pushman, Narcissa

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Billow, 1889

Rory Kurtz, Rocky Passages, Broken Promises, 2011

Thomas Moran, Moonlit Seascape, 1902

Odilon Redon, Mystical Conversation, 1896

Eric White, No Neutral Thoughts, 2008

William Turner, Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, 1842

Max Ernst, The Dark Gods, 1957

"The Lewis chessmen are a group of 12th-century chess pieces most of which are carved in walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, they may constitute some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets." ~ Wikipedia

The Lewis Chessmen

Dora Maar, Femme Nu #55, 1935