Showing posts with label Vice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vice. Show all posts
2014/10/18
2014/04/14
2013/06/07
2012/04/13
2012/02/28
Modernist Gambling Cover
A modernist cover of the 1920s for the novel "The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
2011/12/04
Soldiers Karma
An etching by the famous Swiss artist Urs Graf. "All my money lost with gambling" is written upon the sword of this 16th century mercenary.
2011/09/27
Playing for the Booty
Pirates of the Mediterranean playing at dice for prisoners (1869). A 19th century engraving of a painting by the British artist Frederick Richard Pickersgill.Probably Corsairs from Algiers robbed some beautiful Italian or Spanish women and are gambling now for the booty. A highly romanticizing scenery, what a gorgeous life had these pirates.
2011/09/03
2011/03/29
Vicious Cards
End of a game of cards (1856) by the French painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. It’s a typical 19th century history painting illustrating anger and death as the results of gambling. Kind of Three Musketeers illustration.
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