“As I Wait For Her Whom No One Can Command”

Sara - XXVI

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by Peter Vilhelm Ilsted

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Fate, by Hugo Lederer c.1905.

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'I have to turn this prize against itself'—John Berger on accepting th

In 1972, John Berger won the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel G. He shared half of the proceeds with the Black Panthers, "the black mo

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Orazio Gentileschi (Italian, 1563-1639)

Santa Cecilia e l’angelo

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Merab Abramishvili (Georgian, 1957-2006)

Gabriel

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Lilies of the valley

✿ Print shop: INPRNT

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Edmund Dulac The Birth of Eve

RISD Museum

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White-throated dipper

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Alexander McQueen: ‘Dante Mask’ (1996)

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Egon Schiele, Seated Woman With Bent Knees, 1917

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My flowers are ready to bloom, soon I can wear them as a crown. The fire of my love is going to engulf my entire soul.

Abduxaliq Uyghur, "To Bloom," from Uyghur Poems

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illustration from a page of persian prose, opaque watercolor and ink on paper; iran, timurid period c. 1400s.

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Pendant Shaped as a Dove

17th century

Baroque pearls, gold, and enamel

French or Flemish

Art Institute of Chicago

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Hugh C. Knowles. Forget-me-nots, circa 1910.

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William Etty (English, 1787-1849)

Mademoiselle Rachel

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Cléo de Mérode - Danseuse et icône de beauté française (1875-1966) - Photographie de Reutlinger - Paris, 1895.

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happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)