Purple Damask.

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We are all flesh Berlinde De Bruyckere, 2009-10

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Chema Madoz, Horca Perlas, 1997.

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In scroll 18 of the Iliad, Hephaestus

donned his robe, and took a sturdy staff, and went toward the door, limping; whilst round their master his servants swiftly moved, fashioned completely of gold in the image of living maidens; in them there is mind, with the faculty of thought; and speech, and strength, and from the gods they have knowledge of crafts. These females bustled round about their master…

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Top to bottom: Landing stores at Watson’s Pier, Gallipoli, Turkey (1915) | Four unidentified men using a latrine high above the beach at Anzac Cove (1915) | A trench at Lone Pine after the battle, showing Australian and Turkish dead on the parapet (1915)

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hopes dance best on bald men’s hair

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Lucian Freud, ‘Standing by the Rags’, 1988-9. 

All we can understand of other people’s bodies.

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Héliogabale, a 1911 silent short by Louis Feuillad.

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Victor Hugo's Lace and Ghosts, ca. 1855–56.

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Kazuo Shiraga, Pleasure of Wearing, 1971. 

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Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat. [A man who lives everywhere, Maximus, lives nowhere.]

Martial

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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it away: again I wrote it with a second hand, but came the tide, and made my pains his pray.

Sonnet LXXV, by Edmund Spenser (via oupacademic)

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“Love loves to wander—from one person to the next.” (Winterreise)

Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy, Caravaggio, 1606.

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All flesh is frayle, and full of ficklenesse, Subject to fortunes chance, still chaunging new; What haps to day to me, to morrow may to you.  [FQ, vi, i, 41] Image: The Wheel of Fortune by Edward Burne-Jones, 1870s.

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Maud Allan as Salome in the Vision of Salome, 1900s.

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Liebe, Hannah Höch, 1931. Photomontage.

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Gorgias

Tragedy, by means of legends and emotions, creates a deception in which the deceiver is more honest than the non-deceiver and the deceived is wiser than the non-deceived.

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From Électricité by Man Ray, 1931.  The Met - 2013.1098.13 (1–10).