Spleen and Ideal

[apesoformythoughts]

An 18th century Nativity scene, the work of an illustrator from Aleppo and a scribe from Cairo.

[maertyrer]

Unknown Artist St. Margaret and Dragon

Ink, Tempera and Gold on Vellum, Flemish, late 15th/early 16th century

[discardingimages]

hammertime (Jael and Sisera)

Biblia porta, France c. 1290

Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 76v

[desimonewayland]

Willem Vrelant (Flemish, died 1481, active 1454 - 1481) early 1460s, Bruges, Belgium, Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment.

Christ’s Left Hand & Left Foot with Wound

via: J. Paul Getty Museum

[discardingimages]

bat

Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus (French translation), France ca. 1310

BnF, Français 12400, fol. 75v

[achasma]

“Detail of a miniature of the Human ear complaining to a personification of Nature that she has given him no such protection as the eye was given with the eyebrows”

From the workshop of Grillinger Bibel, for Spiegel der Weisheit by Ulrich von Pottenstein, 1430.

[atelierjen]

Detail of Leontion, a female Epicurean philosopher from Ancient Greece, from Des Cleres et Nobles Femmes, anonymous French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Claris Mulieribus, Paris, c. 1400 

[cmonletsgoswimming]

Those who attack women because of their own vices are men who spent their youths in dissolution and enjoyed the love of many different women, used deceptions in many of their encounters, and have grown old in their sins without repenting, and now regret their past follies and dissolute life they led … Therefore they are pained when they see that their ‘good times’ have now passed them by, and it seems to them that they young, who are now what they once were, are on top of the world. They do not know how to overcome their sadness except by attacking women, hoping to make women less attractive to other men.

Christine de Pisan, from “The Book of the City of Ladies”.  (via cmonletsgoswimming)

[igoyugo]

[sunthroughtheleaves]

Bob Dylan, Life Magazine

 April 10th, 1964

[slimsarchive]

[movieposters]

Bettie Page Reveals All (2012), Mark Mori

[movieposters]

La Dolce Vita (1960), Federico Fellini

[notordinaryfashion]

Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2016

[vintagraphblog]

Two goats walk into a bar…  This vintage advertisement shows two half-man/half-goat beer drinkers in a bar with a caption of “The Convert." Circa 1888 bock beer advertisement.

(via The Convert (Bock Beer) – Vintagraph)

[fuckyeahexistentialism]

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”

— E. Cioran

[iranianrelated]

A street stall in Teheran selling bowls of steaming soup. Circa 1952