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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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The Choice of a Boy between Virtue and Vice Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) (after) National Trust, Attingham Park

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Ophelia (1873), Thomas Francis Dicksee

#ophelia #thomas francis dicksee

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"Love is powerful. It can bend the gods to their knees."

#aphrodite

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Autumn - Bacchus and Ariadne - Eugene Delacroix

~1863

#art #eugene delacroix

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“Cathedra Petri”

Gian Lorenzo Bernini - St. Peter’s Chair (c. 1647). St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican.

In the Roman Rite, the feast of the Chair of Saint Peter is celebrated on 22 February. Before Pope John XXIII’s revision in 1960, the Roman Calendar also included on 18 January another feast of the Chair of Saint Peter (denominated the Chair of Saint Peter in Rome, while the February feast was then called that of the Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch).

#art #gian lorenzo bernini

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'The Swan Maidens' (1894), Walter Crane (English, 1845-1915)

#art

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Portrait of Isabella d’Este, Margravine of Mantua, Titian, ca. 1534-36

#art #portrait

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Make Me Choose ; Angels or Demons

Send me a choice | More here

#angels #mythological creatures

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Ambrogio de Predis | Bianca Maria Sforza (detail) | 1493-95

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women in history | the sewing circles

the sewing circle was a private group of gay and bisexual women and men in hollywood. the group existed during the so-called “golden age of hollywood ” in the 1920s to 1950s. the circle included film idols such as greta garbo, marlene eietrich, joan crawford, and barbara stanwyck, as well as the poet and screenwriter mercedes de acosta. the circle kept its existence a secret, as the hollywood code of conduct as it did not allow homosexuality to appear in the cinema at the time, nor did it allow people whose homosexuality was publicly known to work in the industry. especially in the case of the big stars, this was prohibited with the corresponding contractual clauses.

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→ history + moments so incredible that they seem legend/fairytale stuff

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his fangs are CRIMSON STAINED.

#fenrir

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Auguste Rodin, Girl Kissed by a Phantom, 1900. Photo by Eugène Druet © Musée Rodin

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"Queen and huntress, chaste and fair" (from "Cynthia's Revels") - Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright.

Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wishéd sight, Goddess excellently bright.

Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.

Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, Leaning Against a Tree, Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707-1762)