Kartaga

[loumargi]

[coloredshadow]

Ralph Brown, La Sposa 1999, Marble edition 3

[klassizismus]

Clair de lune à Overschie (1855) by Johan Jongkind (Dutch, 1819-1891)

[modaal]

[kartaga]

And then everyone was gone 

[centuriespast]

Cupid and Psyche [1890] Annie Louisa Swynnerton (1844–1933) Gallery Oldham

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Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis), Sphinx et Pyramides

Karnak (Thèbes), Troisième Pylône - Colosse de Spath Calcaire

1851–52, by Félix Teynard

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View of the colossal sculpture of Ramesses II, Great Temple at Abu Simbel, 1856-1860 (sepia photo). Francis Frith (British, 1822-1898).

[historyoftheancientworld]

Detail of a colossal statue of Antinous as Dionysos Osiris, marble, Roman, Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy. 

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The Pharaoh’s Gift, and The Queen’s Offering (bronze)

Émile Louis Picault (French, 1833-1915)

[viola-goes-to-hollywood]

[leirelatent]

Maurice Ronet, Le feu follet, Louis Malle, 1963

[dailynietzsche]

“Are not all great works and deeds that have remained and have not been washed away by the waters of time, in the profoundest sense, immoralities?”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §395 (edited excerpt).

[dailynietzsche]

“All strong feelings of pleasure have been branded as sinful, seductive, and suspicious by psychology.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §296 (edited excerpt).

[arthistorianmindswirls]

Leonard Raven-Hill, The Serenade

[suonko]

Edward John Poynter - The Ionian Dance [detail]

[hildegardavon]

Wilhelm Kotarbiński (Vasilii Aleksandrovich Kotarbiński), 1848/49-1921

Cleopatra, n/d, oil on canvas, 135×246 cm

Private Collection  (Sotheby’s)

[amntenofre]

Sanctuary of the Goddess Isis at Philae (now on the Agilkia island): detail of three Hathoric columns from the west side of the Hathoric Kiosk (of King Nectanebo I, 380-362 BCE)