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i have a weird appreciation for Baroque artists, in particular Francois Boucher and Peter Paul Rubens, for depicting the human body in lush detail at a time that predates the standards for bodies to be thin and airbrushed with no wrinkles or cellulite

it’s just really interesting to me

so many the things women are taught to hate about their bodies—pudgy bellies, fat rolls, double chins, and cellulite—used to be ideals of beauty shown in depictions of goddesses

mmmdeliciouspaintings

a nude woman reaching to the right, c.1769, françois boucher

candaules showing his wife to gyges, 1646, jacob jordaens

the three graces, 1630-35, peter paul rubens

aurora, c.1733, françois boucher

the fall of man, 1628-29, peter paul rubens

susanna and the elders, 1609-10, peter paul rubens

venus, cupid, bacchus, and ceres, 1612-13, peter paul rubens

the judgment of paris, c.1606, peter paul rubens

leda and the swan, 1741, françois boucher

venus reclining on a dolphin, c.1745, françois boucher

#art

thethirdbear

#animal death

popculturedoesnothing

Trash Humpers by Harmony Korine

#juxtaposition

sabinahahn

“The Minotaur doesn’t like to smoke, but smokes anyway, smokes menthols because he likes them even less, while JoeJoe dances to the static-y music thumping out of the boom box at his feet, the music fighting with the sounds of the exhaust fan over their heads and the incessant traffic on the highway below.”

Steven Sherill, “The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break”

#art

danskjavlarna

From Duke’s 1973 yearbook.

Here are some of the best vintage photos I’ve collected.

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#people

tomdestry

Fredric March as Death, Prince Sirki in Death Takes a Holiday (1934) dir. Mitchell Leisen Costume design by Edith Head & Travis Banton

#film

tresbongout

un-peu-de-vin

Lake Resia in South Tyrol, Italy. The lake is famous for its steeple of a submerged 14th-century church, which can be reached on foot when the water freezes. A legend says that during winter one can still hear church bells ring.

#places