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Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi, Bronzino 

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Antonio Abril, six years old, being cured after his mother had prayed to the Virgen de los desamparados (1864).

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Vogue Taiwan “Heat Wave”, from the 2022 Sustainability Issue

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Another entry for our “dragons and unicorns” week: Two unicorns hold up a crest decorated with two more little unicorns, again from Constitutiones provinciales ecclesiae Anglicanae.

The caption reads: Fortuna opes aufferre non animu potest.

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sends you images captioned "us <3" but they're all oil paintings of people being hunted and torn apart by wild beasts and birds

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Anthony Bourdain (sexiest thing you can do on a date)…

“…you learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. If your date makes the experience uptight and restrictive, well, the sex is going to be horrible too. …I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive. Stop worrying about how your breath’s going to smell, whether there’s beurre blanc on your face, or whether ordering the braised pork belly will make you look fat. Eating with abandon couldn’t be more of a turn-on: it shows that you’re comfortable with yourself.

A perfect date is with a person who eats without fear, prejudice, or concerns about his or her appearance. I remember one of my first dates with my wife (Ottavia): She ordered a six-pound lobster. I sat there, enraptured, watching her suck every bit of meat from it—she got a standing ovation from the floor staff. She’s the kind of woman who will order filet mignon as an appetizer followed by a T-bone steak. Her fearless, open-minded approach to food is completely alluring. For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that. It’s about exploration and taste. And kissing after dinner. And maybe there’s a little wine and curry on your breath… and that’s nice.”

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Quatre nuits d'un rêveur / Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)

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Carnations taken from ‘Hortus Nitidissimis’ by Christophorus Jacobus Trew.

Published 1750 by J. J. Fleischmanni.

Courtesy Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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Photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe for Harper’s Bazaar, 1942

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Sissy Spacek & Martin Sheen in Badlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd8X29pOlwI

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1850s dolls’ house inside a cupboard, fully furnished and with electric chandeliers.

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a water nymph unfit for this world

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Nick Alm (detail)