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Mary Oliver, from When Did It Happen? in “Felicity: Poems”

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Florence + the Machine / Delilah

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I wasn’t kind, but I wasn’t unkind either. I wasn’t anything I guess. I wasn’t anything to anyone at all. I was nothing, a sort of non-being and I just wanted to fall asleep during the day. I let my face drown in the darkness of the pillow and tried to think that it was already night. I was in so much hopelessness. I literally couldn’t walk. I had this body that I needed to clean, feed and control but just thinking about those things made me feel very tired.

Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 25  (via juansendizon)

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Ancient Egyptian faience amulet depicting a horned deity (Khnum?)  Artist unknown; ca. 664-30 BCE (Late Period or Ptolemaic).  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Painted limestone relief depicting the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III (r. 1458-1425 BCE).  From the foundations of the temple of Ramesses IV at Thebes; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Salvator Mundi, allegedly by Leonardo Da Vinci, before restoration. 1490–1500.

instagram.com/ancient_archives

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Nichiren Going into Exile on the Island of Sado, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)

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Cabinet of Curiousities

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The Iceberg, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

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Pre-Columbian ceramic figurine of a dog, found in the Mexican state of Colima.  Artist unknown; ca. 200-500 CE.  Now in the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.

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The Fall of Icarus, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636

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Attributed to Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1623)

A Young Shephard 

Circa 1620-1625

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Edouard Bisson — The Three Graces. details. circa 1899

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Two Cats by Xu Beihong (ca. 1895-1953). 

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John Singer Sargent, Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman), 1893.

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In response to the closures of both the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum due to the partial government shutdown, I will be posting highlights from both collections indefinitely until these museums are reopened.

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girl threading a flower in her hair, by bashir mirza

// virtual art curator