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Detail: Apollo and the Arts, 1897, by Paul Jean Gervais.

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Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet (1968)

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Paintings by Fragonard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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“Sweet mother, I cannot weave — slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.” - Sappho (tr. Diane Rayor)

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

- Virginia Woolf

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Gorgeous art at the Vatican

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Sir Edward John Poynter

English, 1836-1919

Psyche in the Temple of Love (detail)

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chiaroscuro

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Temple of Asclepius (Aesculapius): Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome.

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ANCIENT HISTORY STUDENT MOODBOARD

“ So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity. ” | Tacitus, Ann. III. 19. 2.

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E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

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“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”

(spontaneous archive moodboard for @jawnkeets)

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Ares;

Maybe hearts were designed to be gentle but mine is not. Each sadness or rage or passion crashes like ocean waves on rocks, a relentless roar. I find myself pressed between the pages of books on the history of war, tracing the maps of conquests with hungry fingers. I bite my lips until they bleed. Each summer night I watch the thunderstorms darken the sky and feel at home in the violence of the pouring rain. My heart is a drum, beating me forward towards a red horizon. I am tired of compromise. I fall apart with fury, as I do everything else.

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anyways here are beauty tips from a 2,000 year old Mediterranean funerary moasic:

rosewater on your face and neck each night

hair left in an up-do with only a slight face framing piece in a gentle curl

earth tone eyeshadow and kohl black eye liner to look sultry even in death

staining your lips a tender red with pomegranate seeds or kisses from a cherry

minimal gold embellishments and a sip or two of red wine to darken your cheeks when you smile in the dreamlike haze caused by Dionysus

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Dolce & Gabbana new campaign 2020 for women