The Green Chapel
The best part of the Inferno is the secret 35th Canto, preserved only in a mysterious Provençal manuscript, where Virgil and Dante encounter those pitiful souls damned for washing mushrooms before cooking them.
Sometimes, you need only remember that the world is as soft as lace.
Frederick H. Evans Kelmscott Manor: In the Attics (No. 1), 1896
6 ⅛ × 7 15/16 inches. platinum print
But I sit under clouds (each one
Of which has peace) among
The ordered oaks, upon
The deer’s heath, and strange
And dead the ghosts of the blessed ones
Appear to me.
Hölderlin, ‘The Ages of Life’ (1803) (Trans. David Constantine)
Spain, 1991.
Photographs by David Alan Harvey
De Chirico - Self-Portrait
Fuck Eurovision; power to Gaza and the refugee camps.
La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1962
Source: kiki-de-la-petite-flaque
The Antikythera Youth is a 330 BC bronze statue of a young man discovered in 1900 by sponge-divers in the area of the ancient Antikythera shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece. Photo Credit: National Archeological Museum of Athens.
It’s a shame that classical sculpture, once strongly linked to ideals of democratic virtue and tyrannicide, is now associated with Twitter users who are obsessed with haplogroups and Indo-European nose shapes.
Muse with Lute, 1594, Tintoretto
Medium: oil,canvas
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“Joan of Arc, played by Constance Markievicz, appears before a suffragette prisoner, Kathleen Houston, c.1914
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