[justineportraits]

Emile Charlet A Ballet Dancer 1895

[theodorafrompluto]

Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus (1900)

by John William Waterhouse

[thirdity]

“There emerges the most striking contradiction, interior to each person. On one hand, this small, limited, and inexplicable existence, wherein we have felt like an exile, a butt both of jokes and of the immense absurdity that is the world, cannot resolve to give up the game; on the other hand, it heeds the urgent call to forget its limits.”

— Georges Bataille, “The Cruel Practice of Art”

[pmamtraveller]

2500 years old statue of Aphrodite

[7pleiades7]

The Angel of Death, (Detail), (1851), by Horace Vernet (French, 1789 – 1863), oil on canvas, 146 cm (57.4 in) x 113 cm (44.4 in), Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

[7pleiades7]

The Siren, (Detail), (c. 1900), by John William Waterhouse (English, 1849 – 1917), oil on canvas, 81 x 53 cm (31.8 x 20.8 in), Private collection

[artistprovocateur]

Emil Orlik, Czech/ German (1870-1932)

Portrait of Elisabeth Bergner, 1925

[7pleiades7]

Perseo con la testa di Medusa (Perseus with the Head of Medusa), (Detail), (1545-1554), by Benvenuto Cellini (Italian, 1500 – 1571), cast bronze, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence

[hildegardavon]

Lucas Kilian, 1579-1637

Mathematics (Arithmetica), 1606 (first published), engraving on paper from the series 'Septem Artium Liberalium Icones', 6.31x3.43 in

V&A South Kensington Inv. E.1380-1923

[7pleiades7]

A Virgin with a Unicorn (Fanciulla e l'unicorno) (c. 1604) by Domenichino (Italian, 1581 – 1641), fresco, Palazzo Farnese, Rome

[carvalhais]

Narrative time does not pass. This is why the loss of our narrative capacities intensifies the experience of contingency. Byung-Chul Han. 2024. The Crisis of Narration. Cambridge: Polity Press.

[rozieramati]

Gospel with silver cover. Armenia, 13th century manuscript, cover made in 1691.

[portalibis]

"The Key to the highest and divine philosophy of the mysterious powers of nature is reason. The brighter the sun of reason shines, the more powerful will the intellect grow, and the easier will it become for us to accomplish even the most wonderful things. But if the intellect is in the bonds of flesh, if it cannot overcome the errors received by inheritance and false education, it will be unable to penetrate into the divine mysteries of nature and God."

— Cornelius Agrippa

Art: Tarot de Jacques Viéville (1650)

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[theoptia]

Jean Genet, from Fragments of the Artwork

[cironnup]

[lydiaroberts]

Untitled, 2026

Sogna, Tuscany

Lydia Roberts

[venusimleder]

The Face, February 1999.

Ph. Liz Collins