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i just want to be saved

[palmfed]

Virgil’s Aeneid | M. Gustave Doré’s The Minotaur | Jorge Luis Borges’ The House of Asterion | Pedro Requejo Novoa’s Minotaur | Jorge Luis Borges’ The House of Asterion | George Frederic Watts’ The Minotaur | Jorge Luis Borges’ The House of Asterion | Pasiphae nursing the minotaur | Jorge Luis Borges’ The House of Asterion

[xenocelsus]

Endymion - George Frederick Watts, 1872

[hopsjollyhigh]

Anne Bachelier’s illustrations for Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera

[goldensunset]

my thing i haven’t made is so good 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

The Widow (1900 / Gum bichromate print) - Robert Demachy

[litterae-ignotae]

1. Alexandre Falguière, Cain and Abel 2. Gaetano Gandolfi, Cain and Abel 3. Odilon Redon, Cain and Abel 4. Santiago Rebull, The Death of Abel

[ssweet-dispositionn]

“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”

— Lora Mathis, If There’s A Way Out I’ll Take It (via wordsnquotes)

[aridante]

Andrés Cerpa, The Vault

[old20th]

Ambrogio Antonio Alciati

[uboga]

Crucifix-dagger, cca 1650, Spain

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[liesmyth]

Statue of Marsyas, Roman copy of Greek original sculpture. First century BCE. Capitoline Museums

The monumental statue represents the silen Marsyas hanging on a tree, waiting to be flayed upon order by Apollo. The white-and-red Pavonazzo marble was likely used to emphasize the effect of the flaying.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

[susietwobruise]

a beam of light in the monastery chapel

[tierras]

smallanimal's hand-made silver script 'freak' pedant suspended by leather cord ⋆

[theinternetarchive]

from a production of 'romeo and juliet,' 1912.

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