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A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1851–52) is the full, exhibited title of a painting by John Everett Millais, and was produced at the height of his Pre-Raphaelite period. It was accompanied, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1852, with a long quote reading: "When the clock of the Palais de Justice shall sound upon the great bell, at daybreak, then each good Catholic must bind a strip of white linen round his arm, and place a fair white cross in his cap. —The order of the Duke of Guise."

It depicts a pair of young lovers and is given a dramatic twist because the woman, who is Catholic, is attempting to get her beloved, who is Protestant, to wear the white armband declaring allegiance to Catholicism. The young man firmly pulls off the armband at the same time that he gently embraces his lover, and stares into her pleading eyes. The incident refers to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre on August 24, 1572, when around 3,000 French Protestants (Huguenots) were murdered in Paris, with around 20,000 massacred across the rest of France. A small number of Protestants escaped from the city through subterfuge by wearing white armbands. Millais had initially planned simply to depict lovers in a less dire predicament, but supposedly had been persuaded by his Pre-Raphaelite colleague William Holman Hunt that the subject was too trite. After seeing Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots of 1836 at Covent Garden, which tells the story of the massacre, Millais adapted the painting to refer to the event. In the opera, Valentine attempts unsuccessfully to get her lover Raoul to wear the armband. The choice of a pro-Protestant subject was also significant because the Pre-Raphaelites had previously been attacked for their alleged sympathies to the Oxford Movement and to Catholicism. Millais painted the majority of the background near Ewell in Surrey in the late summer and autumn of 1851, while he and Hunt were living at Worcester Park Farm. It was from a brick wall adjoining an orchard. Some of the flowers depicted in the scene may have been chosen because of the contemporary interest in the so-called language of flowers. The blue Canterbury Bells at the left, for example, can stand for faith and constancy. Returning to London after the weather turned too cold to work out-of-doors in November, he painted in the figures: the face of the man was from that of Millais's family friend Arthur Lemprière, and the woman was posed for by Anne Ryan. The painting was exhibited with Ophelia and his portrait of Mrs. Coventry Patmore (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1852, and helped to change attitudes towards the Pre-Raphaelites. Tom Taylor wrote an extremely positive review in Punch. It was produced as a reproductive print by the dealer D. White and engraved in mezzotint by Thomas Oldham Barlow in 1856. This became Millais's first major popular success in this medium, and the artist went on to produce a number of other paintings on similar subjects to serve a growing middle class market for engravings. These include The Order of Release, 1746 (Tate, London), The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 (Lord Lloyd-Webber Collection), and The Black Brunswicker (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight). All were successfully engraved. There are smaller watercolor versions of the picture in The Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, and a reduced oil replica in the Lord Lloyd-Webber Collection, all by Millais.

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open window save me. save me open window

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I'm collecting a list of Short Stories That Fucked Us Up As Children. reblog and tell me what I'm missing.

here's the list so far:

the yellow wallpaper

all in a summer day

fever dream

the lottery

hey come on out

by the waters of Babylon

the most dangerous game

flowers for Algernon

a good man is hard to find

skin

to build a fire

silent snow secret snow

bartleby the scrivener

i have no mouth and I must scream

harrison bergeron

lamb to the slaughter

the cask of amontillado

the telltale heart

the vampyre

where did you come from, where did you go

the monkey's paw

I'll add a poll in case it helps haha

#my parent didn't do the whole reading you to sleep thing but they put a radio in my room with these cassette tapes with shirt stories #most of them horrifying some of them fine #the worst one ever really little we're talking like 4-6 year old maria had to endure EVERY fucking GODDAMN NIGHT #was the little match girl #who for those of you who don't know dies from freezing to death abandoned in the street after everyone she loves has died while looking in #on other people's warm houses through the windows

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Abandoned Catholic Church. Italy. .

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#aaaah #every single tom hardy fandom i've been in has put me into contact with a fic that ended up giving me a crisis #and changing the course of my life #venom fic i read 6 years ago you will always mean the world to me

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MORGAN FREEMAN as AZEEM 'THE GREAT' in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), dir. Kevin Reynolds

#i dont know who loved this more growing up #me or my father

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can we all agree that this was unnecessary (and hot)?

#it's the hoody that gives off the impression of soft #and the close cropped haircut gives off the impression of young #and then the harsh overhead lights add to some kind of vulnerability with how pale and hurt he looks #and then he opens his mouth and the glass gargling wash it out with whiskey voice comes out and he stares straight into camera #and you remember #well shit #this man is a goddamn killing machine

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someone has applied the mexico filter to greece today.

#this was last week and it was the worst i've seen it outside of fire season since 2011 after the fukusima explosion with the radiation #neon orange rain clouds #but yeah who needs to breath man

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Orpheus and Eurydice, Titian & Orpheus and Eurydice, George Frederic Watts // Silver Springs, Fleetwood Mac

#web weaving #silver springs

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

#i speak three and can communicate and fumble in another 3 and some of you people refuse to even try in the ONE you have

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THAT MAN IS INIGO MONTOYA.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

THANK YOU FOR THE REVVELATION

IT IS FATE THEN

EVEN WHEN I DO NOT KNOW HIM IMMIDIATELY I AM IN A MOMENT IN LOVE WITH HIM

this is like that in every version of reality i'd find you and i'd choose you quote and it is evidently true

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this makes me so embarassed for him i want to hide in a dark hole

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Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor

YENTL 1983 | dir. Barbra Streisand

#i don't know this man but wow