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margaux / art history / we live in the spaces between words / xxxi.

[ararebloom]

—You can't resist it? —No more can you.

ANNE BOLEYN and THOMAS CROMWELL Wolf Hall — 1x03 "Anna Regina"

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Anne Boleyn's rose dress in Wolfhall

[towyns]

you can pavlov yourself into anything; for example in 2019 i was reading the Thomas Cromwell bio by Diarmaid McCulloch over three weeks while listening to Metronomy “Nights Out - 10th anniversary edition” non stop

So now I think about Cromwell every time I listen to Metronomy

[pneumaturgo]

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), Tarot, Major Arcana.

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 26, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated December 26, 1958)

[twinsfawn]

SHOT BY CRYSTAL LEE LUCAS @moonletgarden

[nobrashfestivity]

Gordon Parks, Showgirls at The Latin Quarter, NYC, 1958

[tennesseewillams]

every time a tumblr user mentions men on a post about women/lesbians a little baby puppy dies. did you know that. did you ever think about that. consider the consequences of your actions

[kurhanchyk]

"historians will call them friends" buddy you're looking at this because of historians

[kurhanchyk]

"do your own research" good luck with paleographic analysis of the sources then

[themakeupbrush]

Dior Spring 2021 Couture: “Le Château du Tarot”

[fordarkmornings]

Gustave Max Stevens (Belgian, 1871-1946)

The Twelve Princesses, 1899

[towyns]

i got diagnosed with hashimoto's disease and it's like oh. oh... oh........ everything makes sense now

[unscriptd-deactivated20260317]

Night and Her Daughter Sleep  Mary Lizzie Macomber

[gablehood]

Honestly I love the choice to begin TMATL with that long lingering shot of Anne being rowed to The Tower. It feels so haunting. Ofc the shot was already used in the s1 finale, but this time it feels so different framed in a new context, with a ghostly stillness. She's already gone, already a memory, already haunting Cromwell. It begins with her downfall and it will end with his. He says his goodbyes to the goddesses; a last flitting glance over his shoulder. No trace of Anne Boleyn. He remembers her saying - was it in this very room? - 'Be good to me.' He thinks, if I see her again, perhaps this time I will.

[heathcliffcathy-archive-deactiv]

The Venus-like Frau Minne, torturing the hearts of her beloved in nineteen different ways, in a print by Master Casper von Regensburg, made around 1485.

From Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, by Jack Hartnell

[glazedeye-s]

Temple of Asclepius (Aesculapius): Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome.

[towyns]

i gotta give it to senlinyu that she did the work for alchemised. i went into it somewhat skeptical at whether she had managed to re-write something completely different, and she did. i'm actually in awe of how much she managed to change while keeping the same overall story. i actually love alchemised more than manacled and wished i had come into it blank