Synnecrosis of Solace.

Darkly surreal with haunting allure.

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Fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo Clematis · Zachary Wilder Monteverdi & Rossi Balli & Sonate ℗ Outhere

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Messalina,  Peder Severin Krøyer, 1881 Gothenburg Museum of Art

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Julia beheading Holofernes

by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1652/53) c. 1620, oil on canvas.

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Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice

by Frans Francken the Younger (1581-1642) Painted 1633, oil on panel. 

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The Death of Cleopatre, Théodore Chassériau (1845)

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Nikolaos Gyzis | Afrodite, Aris & Eros

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“The meaning of this scene was really about Queen Anne’s jealousy of my character and of all the characters who are dancing because she’s crippled by gout and in a wheelchair; it became about the emotions on Olivia Colman’s extraordinary face.” -Rachel Weisz

The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

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“The saddest truth is realising you have fallen madly in love with what can never be.”

— Michael Faudet (via quotemadness)

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Witches’ Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)

by Francisco Goya c. 1821-23

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“A heart is made mature by darkness and art.”

— Antonio Machado, tr. by Robert Bly, “The Water Wheel,” wr. c. 1927

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Endure, my soul; you’ve suffered sharper pain before.

Odysseus, Homer, The Iliad (via onefaithlove)

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Le déluge

By  Lêon François Comerre, circa 1911, oil on canvas

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Antigonick (Sophokles) trans. Anne Carson

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Terror made me cruel

Emily Brontë (via karrova)

[radstudies]

Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741-1825) - The Shepherd’s Dream, 1793

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1650s Cornelius Johnson (Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen) - Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria in mourning

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“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”

Cersei Lannister, a Clash of Kings (via stop-this-pain)