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Pain is Beauty

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Torso of a Gladiator.  after the antique. Galleria Romanelli. Tuscany.

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Knight - Leg Armor Detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art

[desimonewayland]

Panel of raised embroidery made of silk, metal wire, metal strips, coral beads, 17th C. [France?] - maker unknown.

Collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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[requiem-on-water]

Isidore Hippolyte Brion by Ackteon

[abystle]

La Menzogna, in detail, Salvator Rosa, 1650. 

[abystle]

     After growing disgusted with comedy of his day along with the actor’s and audience thereof, he swore to a friend he was no longer having anything to do with it. During the early 1660’s Rosa’s work changed drastically. He began to focus on the then contemporary tragedies, as well as edifying biblical themes, and mythological ones in a correspondingly sober style. He utilized fewer colors, those of which were muted, and his art, save for a few, contained fewer figures.

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[nemfrog]

A crow with a halo. One thousand gems of genius in poetry and art. 1889.

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[existingwithintheunknown]

Young Medusa by jsimeth

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“Nastassja Korolevichna” and “Maria Swan White” by Sergey Solomko

[requiem-on-water]

“Stop, this is the empire of the dead”  - Catacombs in Paris

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Mercury / Hermes (Detail), 1866. Wood engraving by Jonnard after William Blake Richmond

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[meme-xx]

Moon (Nov. 8, 2020)

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Πιθανὸς ἄγαν ὁ θῆλυς ὅρος ἐπινέμεται ταχύπορος· ἀλλὰ ταχύμορον γυναικογήρυτον ὄλλυται κλέος.

- Aeschylus, Oresteia

Quickly, with rapid steps, too credulous, The limit which a woman sets to trust Advances evermore; And with swift doom of death A rumour spread by woman perishes.