i wrestle alone in the dark...

monika. poland. 21. my blog is about art, fashion, photography history. my main blog Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. semi-hiatus

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There is only one hell: the one we live in now.

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Titian, Empress Isabel of Portugal, 1548 (art detail)

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Alonso Sánchez Coello, The infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia and Magdalena Ruiz (detail) c.1585–88 

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Titian, Empress Isabel of Portugal, 1548 (art detail)

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That I know things. And when I say we’re alone, we’re alone. Life is only on earth, and not for long.

Melancholia (2011)

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There is no hell, no heaven either, this world is what we make of it.

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Paris barricade made from cobblestones (April 1871), photographed by Pierre-Ambrose Richebourg

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On the left; Portrait of Jorge Manuel Theotocopoulos, by El Greco

On the right; Portrait of a Painter after El Greco, by Pablo Picasso

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Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1853 (source).

One of America’s first professional female sculptors, Harriet Hosmer met Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Rome in 1853. The Brownings, both well-known English poets, had eloped to Italy seven years earlier. Shortly after meeting the couple, Hosmer approached them about modeling their hands. Mrs Browning consented to the sculptor’s idea on the condition that Hosmer do the casting herself

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Tremayna by Bill Jewitt

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Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam)

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Unknown Artist painting of Queen Elizabeth I

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The Ambassadors, detail (1553)

Hans Holbein the Younger

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Western Greek (Southern Italy or Sicily) c. 330-300 BC.

Detail: Gold diadem with elaborate filigree decoration and a small head of a woman in low relief.

The thickness of the sheet gold and the sturdiness of the object, together with traces of apparently ancient repairs to a break in the strap at the left corner of the pediment, indicate that this diadem was actually worn.

British Museum.