[velvetnightgallery]

Falling Stars (1912) by Franz von Stuck

[illiminal]

Jean-Jacques Henner, Le Christ en croix (1889)

[fairest]

Poetry speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

— Turgenev

[gjengangeren]

[angelicdewdrop]

[roserosette]

Morozko, 1964, Aleksandr Rou

[asincereoffering]

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[thefugitivesaint]

Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910), ‘Saint George’, “Salon of 1900” Source

[gifmovie]

What an amazing sound - Women from the Rugova region in Kosovo are singing to the rhythms of tepsia (copper pan for preparing traditional food). This disappearing minimalistic style was a popular form of singing among communities throughout the Dinara mountain range. Filmed by Japanese ethnographers from the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka.

[fangedforgotten]

[the--framed--maelstrom]

Gauntlets of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Lorenz Helmschmid, Steel, 1490

[ssjkamui-digitalphoenixug]

Tokyo Stock Exchange 1985 . Archeofuturism in action

[wayti-blog]

“Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than itself.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

[rilke]

[onetwofeb]

Sven Hedin, a Swedish explorer, documented Zoroastrian Towers of Silence (dakhmas) near Tehran, Iran, around 1898. These circular, raised structures were used for excarnation, where bodies were exposed to vultures and the elements to avoid contaminating the earth.

[the--framed--maelstrom]

The true knight of faith is a witness, never the teacher, and therein lies the profound humanity, which has much more to it than this trifling participation in the woes and welfare of other people that is extolled under the name of sympathy, although, on the contrary, it is nothing more than vanity. He who desires only to be a witness confesses thereby that no man, not even the most unimportant man, needs another’s participation or is to be devalued by it in order to raise another’s value.

Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling: Problem II

[ddestroyangels]

'Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica' by Louis-Édouard Rioult

1824, Louvre, Paris