[memorycycle]

first thing id do as a skeleton is drink red wine from a goblet and have it spill out everywhere . second thing id do is play my ribs like a xylophone

[banji-effect]

The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

[the1920sinpictures]

1914 A member of the Ballet Russe. From Art Nouveau & Art Deco Sculpture, FB.

[jinxproof]

Patti Smith | © Bruce Weber

[thememedaddy]

[oldartss]

Water lilies Nenuphar by Isaac Levitan (1895)

[hagushka]

Fairytale flight

[deathandmysticism]

Gustave Doré, Fourth Knight of the Apocalypse on the Pale Horse, with Hell following Him, 1865

[my-dailydreams]

[dogpuppy]

[1girl2jesters]

My frens wedding veil… “In this life and the after”

[ddestroyangels]

Crucifixion With Mary Magdalene Kneeling And Weeping by Francesco Hayez, 1827

Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan

[bebemoon]

get in loser we’re enduring multiple hardships that will inextricably bind our fates for the rest of eternity

[jstor]

Here's another unusual print we found while perusing through the more than 500 free images by José Guadalupe Posada on JSTOR. It depicts a party in 1901 in which men in drag danced with men in suits. While this was surely not intended as a celebratory image originally, we're making it one now because we love knowing that these parties were happening in Mexico more than 100 years ago!

This particular example comes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which features more than 1/2 million open access images.

[warriorprincesstramp]

I'm not locked in I'm never locking in I'm going to hell

[cosmonautroger]

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry, 2004

[aidashakur]

I think a tattoo would make me feel better