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the fall of babylon by john martin

http://www.ku.edu/~sma/martin/prm517y.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

My Future Husband Joolz clearly having had the shit beaten out of him:

http://members.aol.com/bobisbuff/denajulian.jpg

aka "you should see the other guy"

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

from paradise lost by john martin

http://www.stedwards.edu/hum/klawitter/milton/martin/martin23.gif

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

ditto:

http://www.stedwards.edu/hum/klawitter/milton/martin/martin5.gif

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

That one of Satan on his throne is one of my fave ever Paradise Lost illustrations. The sense of depth in the background!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

and again:

http://www.stedwards.edu/hum/klawitter/milton/martin/martin20.gif

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Perspective, you are my friend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.postmodern.com/~fi/morbid/brueghel_triumph-of-death.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

(ooh "where's willy the fish-demon?" i love that book matt!!)

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

merlin's cliff by john martin:

http://www.taliesin.clara.net/images/merlincliff.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.imagemagician.com/images/grimstitch/birdman.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"willy grabs the loot":

http://www.fantasygallery.net/masters/bosch/bosch05.jpg

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

john martin illustration from "geology for beginners" (!!they are meant to be dinosaurs, in a text book!!) )

http://www.strangescience.net/pics/aor.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

the destruction of sodom and gomorrah by john martin

http://www.mjedwards.net/sodom.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I like how the dino on the left looks like he's retching up a severed arm.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

(they are top beasts, and i found them on a top site, which i shall link to later!!)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

haha ph34r the cuteosaurus!!

hey my picture was there a minute ago but now it's vanished :(

― jones (actual), Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s i adore you, and your lovely lovely pictures!

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.quicksilvershapeshifter.com/circlelustful.jpg

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 9 November 2002 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Bring on the Blake! That thread alone could run forever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.quicksilvershapeshifter.com/distantfire.jpg

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/i/deluge.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

http://photos13.flickr.com/18228077_35c8759570.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/f/images/femns_gentles.jud.behd.lg.jpg

― You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/165bg.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

http://quimby.gnus.org/4ad-pics/CocteauTwins.Garlands.lp.jpg

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

http://img.sheezyart.com/preview/7/78873.jpg

― django (django), Friday, 10 June 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

revive!!

it is never not time for giant pictures of hell

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 23 July 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Unless you are in hell. Then it's kind of redundant.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 23 July 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

what if you want to see other parts of hell that you can't visit because you haven't committed the appropriate sins?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

I suppose if my viscera was being eternally gnawed by giant three-headed dogs, there might be other things on my mind than thinking, "gee, I wonder if the seventh circle is prettier."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 23 July 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

grass is always greener!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.humanitiesweb.org/gallery/97/4.jpg

― pete d, Saturday, 23 July 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/08/john-martin-painting-the-apocalypse

― mark s, Saturday, 10 September 2011 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

since all the john martin pix have vanished from upthread :(

― mark s, Saturday, 10 September 2011 16:08 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

Mini-review of ^^^

― mark s, Sunday, 23 October 2011 11:55 (fourteen years ago)

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