vita detestabilis

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Caravaggio (1571 - 1610) Giuditta e Oloferne (1598 - 1599) Oil on canvas - 145 cm × 195 cm  Location: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica at Palazzo Barberini, Rome

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Herbert James Draper   (1863 – 1920) Clyties of the Mist (1912) oil on canvas - ?? x ?? Location: ??

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Antonio Ciseri (1821 – 1891) The transport of Christ to the sepulcher (1864 - 1870) Oil on canvas - 190 cm x 273 cm  Location: Madonna del Sass

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Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin   (1860 – 1943) Paolo Malatesta et Francesca da Rimini aux enfers (1883) Oil on canvas - ?? x ?? Location: Musée des beaux-arts de Carcassonne

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Cristofano Allori   (1577 – 1621) Judith with the Head of Holophernes (1610 - 1612) Oil on canvas - 139 cm x 116 cm  Location: Palazzo Pitti

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Vasili Ivanovich Surikov (Russian, 1848 – 1916)  Young woman at prayer   (1879) Oil on canvas - 40.7 x 33.5 cm. (16 x 13.2 in.) Private Collection

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Paul Herrmann (German, 1864 – 1940)  Zeit: Chronos mit seiner Sense (1913)

mezzotint and roulette - 56.5 x 43.4 cm. (22.2 x 17.1 in.) Private Collection

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With what do you fill an empty life?

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803 – 1860)  The Suicide (1836)

oil on canvas - 40 cm x 56 cm Location: Walters Art Museum “ Here we shall drag them, and through the mournful wood Our bodies will be hung: with every one Fixed on the thornbush of its wounding shade. “ -- Inferno, Dante, Canto XIII

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Vilhelm Hammershøi   (1864 – 1916) The Collector of Coins (1904) oil on canvas - 69.5 cm x 89 cm Location: National Gallery (Norway)

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Karl von Piloty (1826 – 1886) Die Ermordung Cäsars (The Murder of Caesar) (1865) oil on canvas - ?? x ?? Location: Lower Saxony State Museum

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Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834 – 1890) The Sheperds and the angel (1879)

oil on copper - ?? x ?? Location: ??

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Mikhail Nesterov (1862 – 1942) Vision of Youth Bartholomew (1889 – 1890) oil on canvas - 160 cm × 211 cm Location: Tretyakov Gallery

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905) The Day of the Dead (1859)

oil on canvas - 147 cm × 120 cm  Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius (via quietlotus)

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Maxim Vorobiev (1787 – 1855) Interior of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (1835) oil on canvas - 109.5 cm × 150 cm  Location: National Museum in Warsaw

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Antonio Ciseri (1821 – 1891) Ecce homo! (1871)