Venus In Furs —

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Giovanni Battista Costantini, 1622

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Angels, part II, in the Monumental Cemetery in Milan, Italy, known for its abundance of artistic tombs and monuments.

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“Do you know what torture by hope is? After despair, calm sets in, but hope can drive you mad.”

-Anne Akhmatova

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Architecture and statue of Lucifer’s defeat at Boston College

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Achille Mourant - Dying Achilles. 1789. Jean Baptiste Giraud. French 1752-1830. marble.   http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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A shot from The Sorrows of Satan (1926). This shot would go on to be the cover of Bauhaus’s “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.”

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▪︎Perfume case, heart-shaped and engraved with foliate and faunal designs, with open-mark crown as handle.

Culture: Dutch

Date: 18th century

Medium: Silver, hinged and gilded

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Castle Amerongen, Netherlands, photos by Henk Vrehen

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“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”

— Franz Kafka

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‘Moribund’

F22 Photography

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Moon over the Temple of Poseidon. 1 - 2

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Rick Owens furniture exhibition at Galerie Philia

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Jan Wierix (1549-1620), The Virgin triumphing over the demons, with symbols of the Litany of Loreto, etching

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Engraved and gold inlaid Smith & Wesson Model 1917 double action revolver with pearl grips.

from Rock Island Auctions

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St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by vtarnini

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there is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

there is a rapture on the lonely shore,

there is society where none intrudes,

by the deep Sea, and music in its roar:

i love not Man the less, but Nature more.

— childe harold's pilgrimage, lord byron.

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Anonymous photographer Antique Head of Ariadne, Museo delle Terme, Rome ca. 1880 marble Victoria & Albert Museum