[xvisualtreasure09x]

[tridentandtales]

Roman token in the shape of a crescent moon

Roman Empire (27 BCE - 476 CE)

Louvre S 2700

[achillesinhighheels]

[tridentandtales]

Greek bronze helmet with two winged youths and a pair of entwined serpents on both sides. The figures are meant to represent either Daedalus and his son Icarus or local daemonic beings

7th century BCE

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989.281.50

[jinxproof]

Gisele Bündchen | Zoomp A/W 1997

[tridentandtales]

Etruscan hand mirror engraved with the goddess Eos carrying the body of her son Memnon

470 - 450 BCE

The Art Institute of Chicago 1984.1341

[frailbug]

[pussymargiela]

[beingpureatheart]

[spirulin4]

i met him today

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from a letter in translation to Elisa Lispector, featured in All Letters of Clarice Lispector

[memories-of-ancients]

Ceremonial jade ge (halberd), China, Western Han Dynasty, 25-220 AD

[artist-angelico]

Madonna of Humility, 1419, Fra Angelico

Medium: panel,tempera

https://www.wikiart.org/en/fra-angelico/madonna-of-humility-1

[vintagewildlife]

Long-tailed macaques By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

[mermaidenmystic]

Le Baiser de la Sirène (The Kiss of the Mermaid) ~ 1882 ~ Gustav Wertheimer (Austrian painter, 1847-1902)

[girlalcuin]

"iuliana legit lebrem estum; iuliana fecit"

little wonderful surprise breaking the monotony of surveying dozens of manuscripts for research purposes. iuliana has read this book; iuliana has done [this]; and i, like iuliana, was reading this book too, centuries and centuries later. this signum of her passage on earth, of partaking in an intellectual activity as a medieval woman moves me to tears. to the women reading in the past, in the present and the future... my heart goes out to you

[artofgeocities]

I think the fumes are getting to me