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Charles Allan Gilbert. Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 – April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was an American illustrator. He is especially remembered for a widely published drawing (a memento mori or vanitas) titled All Is Vanity. The drawing employs a double image (or visual pun) in which the scene of a woman admiring ...
Bloody Mary (folklore) An early 20th-century Halloween greeting card depicts a divination ritual in which a woman stares into a mirror in a darkened room to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband. The shadow of a witch is cast onto the wall at left. Bloody Mary is a legend of a ghost, phantom, witch, or spirit conjured to reveal the ...
The mirror shows the side of the skulls face yet the skull has its back towards the mirror. [4] The mirror symbolizes vanity while the skull is a metaphor of mortality. [8] The candlelight most likely stands for spiritual enlightenment. Martha with Magdalene at the Mirror was also painted by Caravaggio during the 16th century. [1]
The Vanishing Lady. The Vanishing Lady is a window display created by Charles Morton for a Sacramento department store in 1898. L. Frank Baum celebrated it in 1900 in a book of window decorations published the same year as his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The illusion consists of a bust of a living woman, appearing above a pedestal, then ...
Ambiguous images or reversible figures are visual forms that create ambiguity by exploiting graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms. These are famous for inducing the phenomenon of multistable perception.
The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, [1] after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born. Franny Moyle speculates that Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, then Queen of England, might have commissioned it as ...
Chenrezig). Vajrayoginī is a key figure in the advanced Tibetan Buddhist practice of Chöd, where she appears in her Kālikā (Standard Tibetan: Khros ma nag mo) or Vajravārāhī (Tibetan: rDo rje phag mo) forms. Vajrayoginī also appears in versions of Guru yoga in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Aztec obsidian mirror. Tezcatlipoca (/ ˌtɛskætliˈpoʊkə /; Classical Nahuatl: Tēzcatlipōca [/teːskat͡ɬiːˈpoːkaʔ/]) or Tezcatl Ipoca was a central deity in Aztec religion. He is associated with a variety of concepts, including the night sky, hurricanes, obsidian, and conflict. He was considered one of the four sons of Ometecuhtli ...