REGICIDE

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Clearest picture of Jupiter, from Earth. Isn't she beautiful? Actually hundreds of photos taken by the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, compiled to produce the infrared snap in order to see beyond Jupiter’s hazy atmosphere.

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From The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones

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Some more pictures I took of Notre Dame’s facade and the views from the rooftop, including the Seine River and the Tour Eiffel. December 18th 2018.

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The young Bonaparte in Brienne (Paris military School) * -    Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville ‘JOB’

French, 1858-1931

Illustration

* The illustrator imagines the young Corsican, studious and solitary in the study room, where the shadow of his profile is projected on the map of Europe in a premonitory way

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Vasilis Avramidis  -  Lift   (oil on canvas, 2016)

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Woman’s Hands   -   Ludovic Alleaume ,1905-10.

French,1859-1941

Lithograph,  29,5 x 26 cm

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“A man’s character is his fate.”

— Heraclitus 540 - 480 B.C.E

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Snow falling on the Krug Memorial Hans Schuler, sculptor

Loudon Park Cemetery Baltimore, Maryland

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Atsuko Tanaka

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Alexandre Cabanel, Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Those Condemned to Death, 1887.

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the blood moon over the temple of Apollo | Corinth, Greece

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Jean de Boulogne (1529 - 1608) Ercole e il centauro Nesso (1598). Florence.    

Жан - де - Булонь (1529 - 1608)  Геркулес и кентавр Несс (1598). Флоренция.

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Caravaggio, The Sacrifice of Isaac (detail), 1603 version

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“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”      

  ― Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’

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Napoleon’s Youth

(Napoleon as First Consul of France)

First, we have to acknowledge the reckless manner in which Napoleon’s character is treated. He is painted as either having a psychological disorder or as being the genocidal precursor to Hitler. Neither is accurate. Napoleon was not all that different from the other sovereigns and generals of Europe in his ruthlessness. And what goes most frequently ignored are his progressive and herculean achievements in the political sphere (possibly because his military achievements were just that staggering).

Napoleon however, was not born into money. He did not emerge as a natural genius and his early life is littered with recurring failures (and thoughts of suicide). He invokes obsession – be it in the form of praise or vitriolic condemnation – because he quite literally rose from nothing into a titan of history. His life is meticulously studied for that reason. We, in some capacity, want to do that ourselves.

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The reading of history very soon made me feel that I was capable of achieving as much as the men who are placed in the highest ranks of our annals

Napoleon, to the Marquis de Caulaincourt (via entjs)