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Messalina,  Peder Severin Krøyer, 1881 Gothenburg Museum of Art

#Messalina #empress #emperor claudius #rome #roman #julio-claudians #art #peder severin krøyer #gothenburg museum

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Julia beheading Holofernes

by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1652/53) c. 1620, oil on canvas.

#artemisia gentileschi #renaissance #female artists #fuck the patriarchy #julia #holofernes #resistance #oil on canvas #painting #dark #murder #blood #art

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Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice

by Frans Francken the Younger (1581-1642) Painted 1633, oil on panel. 

#fransfrancken #virtue #vice #dilemma #dualism #sins #salvation #hell #heaven #renaissance art #renaissance #painting #oil #ecclesiastical #christian

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The Death of Cleopatre, Théodore Chassériau (1845)

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Nikolaos Gyzis | Afrodite, Aris & Eros

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“The meaning of this scene was really about Queen Anne’s jealousy of my character and of all the characters who are dancing because she’s crippled by gout and in a wheelchair; it became about the emotions on Olivia Colman’s extraordinary face.” -Rachel Weisz

The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

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“The saddest truth is realising you have fallen madly in love with what can never be.”

— Michael Faudet (via quotemadness)

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Witches’ Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)

by Francisco Goya c. 1821-23

#violence #intimidation #aging #death #witches #satan #devil #goat #sabbath #black magic #distress #art #fransisco goya #goya #romantic #spanish #persecution #witch hunt

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Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638  II “Sileant Zephyri" 

Composed by Antonio Vivaldi  Countertenor: Philippe Jaroussky Ensemble Artaserse

#filae maestae #vivaldi #philippe Jaroussky #ensemble artaserse #classical #haunting #orchestra #opera #baroque #sileant zephyri

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“A heart is made mature by darkness and art.”

— Antonio Machado, tr. by Robert Bly, “The Water Wheel,” wr. c. 1927

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Endure, my soul; you’ve suffered sharper pain before.

Odysseus, Homer, The Iliad (via onefaithlove)

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Le déluge

By  Lêon François Comerre, circa 1911, oil on canvas

#le deluge #leon francois comerre #comerre #painting #oil #art #france #flood #tragedy

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Antigonick (Sophokles) trans. Anne Carson

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Terror made me cruel

Emily Brontë (via karrova)

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Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741-1825) - The Shepherd’s Dream, 1793

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1650s Cornelius Johnson (Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen) - Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria in mourning

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“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”

Cersei Lannister, a Clash of Kings (via stop-this-pain)