Posted September 25, 2011 at 4:30pm in Philip James De Loutherbourg gothic painting Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard 1790
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“After this manner I came to the further ende, where the beautifull hystories finished, and beyond the same more inward the darknes was such as I durst not enter, & comming back againe I heard among the ruines a continuing noise like the cracking of bones or their ratling together, whereat I stood still forgetting my fore conceiued delight being interrupted therewith from the sweetnes of the obiects.”
- Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphii (1499)
“Philosophy is a ghoul that haunts only ruins, and the broken croaks of our hymns to sickness have scarcely begun”
- Nick Land (1995)
Posted August 22, 2011 at 11:19am in 1766 Charles-Louis Clérisseau Design for the Ruin Room at SS Trinità dei Monti Rome hermitage ruins philosophy gothic antique gothic Francesco Colonna Hypnerotomachia Nick Land
