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klaudia // xxiii // intj history student who wants to be a writer; book lover; morbid longing for aesthetics, blood, gold and beautiful words.

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BORGIA FAMILY APPRECIATION WEEK! (JUN 2020) Day One: Favorite Borgia Family Member; Lucrezia Borgia

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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor (Willa Cather)

Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI (Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1908-14) via the Tate

For a nice post about the historical context of the event depicted see @therepublicofletters response to anon

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Botticelli - The Birth of Venus

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The Shiver of the Vampires (Jean Rollin, 1971)

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Ritual Dagger, 17th century or earlier, Eastern Tibet, Kham region

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Constellations. A fourteen weeks course in descriptive astronomy. 1870.

Internet Archive

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Lana Turner & John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946.     Photo by Walter Sanders

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King Akhenaten offering an olive branch to the Aten New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, Egypt, c. 1345 B.C.

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Landscapes.

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Vivienne Westwood

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A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory

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