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[madamelesfressange]

Saint Peter and Saint Paul Church in Mechelen, Belgium

[gabrielese-lese]

Pollaiuolo, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, National Gallery, London

[random-brushstrokes]

Paul Cadmus - Stone Blossom: A Conversation Piece (1939–1940)

In 1939 and 1940 Cadmus painted Stone Blossom: A Conversation Piece, a portrait of three of his friends from New York: from left to right, Monroe Wheeler, who at the time was director of publications at the Museum of Modern Art; writer Glenway Wescott; and photographer George Platt Lynes. The men had been a romantic threesome for years, and Cadmus shows them enjoying a lazy summer day at Stone Blossom, their country house in New Jersey, a place away from the city where they could relax and live their lives in the open—literally. In New York, they had to be on guard, as jobs could be lost and reputations and lives ruined if their sexuality and unconventional relationship became public knowledge. (source)

[xanaxfarts]

Psusennes I funerary jewels, Cairo, Egypt.

[desimonewayland]

Victor Prouvé French 1858-1943

Head of a Man, c.1930s

Henry Miller Fine Art, London

[cultofthedarksun]

Villa of Franz von Stuck

[hallohartje]

From the September 2001 issue of Badi

[instrumental-artistry]

Concert Zither, ca. 1893 Hartmann Bros. & Reinhard (United States, act. 1880–after 1893)

Source: Boston-MFA

[calleido]

sant’angelo in formis, capua, italy

[chadmsirois]

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925), Two Nude Bathers Standing on a Wharf, 1879-80. Oil on wood, 34.9 x 26.7 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

[deathandmysticism]

Actor battles a ghost, 19th century

[eyesaremosaics]

Rene Lalique, an opalescent ‘Danaïdes’ vase.

[funeral-wreath]

Gustave Doré, David and Jonathan

[anthonysperkins]

Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) dir. Elia Kazan

[thatsbutterbaby]

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), Virtue and Nobility.

[tragediambulante]

Saint Batholomew and Saint Sebastian (Details from an organ door), Sebastiano del Piombo, before 1511

[precodesoul]

Claudette Colbert photographed by Otto Dyar, c. 1932