[artist-durer]

Iris, Albrecht Durer

Medium: pen, ink

[dialnfornoir]

Double Indemnity (1944)

[renaissance-art]

Giotto c. 1300

Saint Francis Mourned by Saint Clare

[lady-marmelade]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)

[pasticciaccio]

Cat People, Jacques Tourneur (1942)

[freshmoviequotes]

Cat People (1942)

[punkrockdoll]

To Live Out What I Am      - Hadewijch of Antwerp 

My distress is great and unknown to men. They are cruel to me, for they wish to dissuade me From all that the forces of Love urge me to. They do not understand it, and I cannot explain it to them. I must then live out what I am; What love counsels my spirit, In this is my being: for this reason I will do my best.

Whatever vicissitudes men lead me through for Love’s sake I wish to stand firm and take no harm from them. For I understand from the nobility of my soul That in suffering for sublime Love, I conquer. I will therefore gladly surrender myself In pain, in repose, in dying, in living, For I know the command of lofty fidelity.

I do not complain of suffering for Love: It becomes me always to submit to her, Whether she commands in storm or in stillness. One can know her only in herself. This is an unconceivable wonder, Which has thus filled my heart And makes me stray in a wild desert.

[gettzi]

I know I’m probably breaking some copyright laws doing this, but check out these artifacts about bisexuality and conformity from the 1990s. From The Riot Grrrl Collection.

[rockinnreelin]

X-Ray Spex

[truth-and-soul-blog]

[homilius]

“The queen took notice and saw the two of them frequently flush and grow pale, sigh and tremble, but she did not know why and attributed it to the sea over which they sailed. Surely she would have recognized the cause had the sea not deceived her; but the sea tricked and deceived her, so that she could not recognize love on the sea. For they were on the sea; but bitter pain caused their suffering, and love was their malady. But of the three – love, bitterness, and the sea [amer, l'amer, la mers] – the queen knows only to blame the sea, for the two of them denounce to her the third and by the third the two are excused, though they are guilty in the matter. Often he who is innocent of any wrong pays for another’s sin. Thus the queen laid all the guilt and blame upon the sea, but it was wrong to do so, for the sea had done no wrong.” Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès (1176), trans. William Kibler

[s-hayashi]

Roland Barthes, 1972.

[occultclassicalart]

EGUSQUIZA Y BARRENA, Rogelio de (1845-1915)

Tristan and Isolt, detail 1910 Oil on canvas, 160.0 x 240.0 cm Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

via Valeria V

[somebodiesmindkindof]

[angelswouldnthelpyou]

[ruthwilson]