If I Cannot Bend Heaven, I Will Raise Hell

Probably thinking about Pompeii.

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IRELAND. Sandycove. 2011. © Carl De Keyzer/Magnum Photos

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First snow at the Palace of Versailles (nov. 2024)

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The Armed Maiden, 1840.  Friedrich von Amerling (Austro-Hungarian, 1803-1887)

Reunited, 1918.  Guillaume Seignac (French, 1870-1924)

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Carl Schweninger the Younger (Austrian, 1854-1912) - Two Friends Louis Émile Pinel de Grandchamp (French, 1831-1894) - The Chinese Game, 1882 Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895) - Two Girls, ca. 1894 Federico Zandomeneghi (Italian, 1841-1917) - At the Café, 1894 G.F. Clement (Danish, 1867-1933) - Two Girls at Table Rupert Bunny (Australian, 1864-1947) - A Word of Advice, 1908 Thomas Benjamin Kennington (British, 1856-1916) - Polishing the Brass, 1912 Leander Engström (Swedish, 1886-1927) - Nordic Girls, ca. 1915 Grigory Gluckmann (Russian, 1898-1973) - Daydreams Sergey Viktorov (Russian, 1916-1977) - The Letter, 1955

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Adonis, from a poem titled “Unintended Worship,” featured in If Only the Sea Could Sleep

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Consiglio alla Vendetta (1851, detail) by Francesco Paolo Hayez

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Carlo Crivelli — Saint Catherine of Alexandria (detail). 1476

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Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

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Greek Gold diadem with Hercules knot (250–150 BCE),

Gold, garnet, carnelian, sardonyx

3×9 1/8 in. (7.6 × 23.1 cm).

On loan to the Metropolitan Museum.

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House of Menander, entrance to the bath, Pompeii

Photography by Luigi Spina

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Vogue Spain, November 1998.

Ph. Jeff Bark

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09/03/21 • poem made from the handout for a lecture on the fragmentary historical sources and missing tomb of alexander the great

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[ID: the poem, made of cut-out words pasted onto paper, is titled, “The Matter of the Body.” poem text reads,

“(Pause.) history is a vat of honey, gold coalescing over the tombs of kings. while exploring This otherwise-impossible space, you may encounter the body. (Pause.) it died in Babylon

in June 323 BCE, and was buried in a tomb of narrative possibilities. every historian reinters it. (Pause.) there is reason to believe that the body deteriorated. in the sarcophagus where time

is embalmed, a pseudo-body took shape, unlikely to have incorporated the self. (Pause.) uncertainty opens up the tomb, but the body lies still—history made tactile and called Alexander. And now?

what fragments of him surviving can be glimpsed, when someone asks (Pause.) whose body is this”

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′′ the saint ′′

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Bronze statue of Apollo from Pompeii. National Museum of Naples, Italy.

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The Roses of Heliogabalus (detail), 1898, oil on canvas Lawrence Alma-Tadema