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Alfred Gilbert's "St. Michael", a version of a figure from the tomb of the Duke of Clarence, Windsor.

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Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery; “Art Objects”

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the body in fragments

(babylonian king evil-merodach dismembering the corpse of his father nebuchadnezzar and feeding his body parts to birds)

in a copy of "speculum humanae salvationis", northern germany, c. 1360

source: Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibl., Hs 2505, fol. 47r

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French lace fan with cherubs, 1885-1895. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Mary Neville, Lady Dacre; Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre, by Hans Eworth

#16th century 

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“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune”

The Miniaturist, Part One (BBC 2017)

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Solid gold ring with carnelian intaglio scorpion, Roman circa 100 CE.

Scorpion rings were once worn as magical amulets believed to protect the wearer from being poisoned.

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This note was written by a child who was listening in on a bunch of artists discussing art and life.

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It’s just like where is the whimsy

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Roman mosaic discovered during the last excavations in Pompeii

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Gold brooch inscribed "NOSTRE ET TOUT DITZ A VOSTRE [D]ESEIR (Ours and always at your desire)", France, circa 1400

from The Victoria & Albert Museum

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i am so normal about this

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, detail from Bacchus (1596-97)

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“Ottoman drugs containing rhubarb, cinnamon, mastic gum, Chinese turmeric, amber, musk, balm of Gilead, Meccan myrrh, white pepper, opium, rose water, cast into moulds & inscribed with healing incantations, 16C“

‡ Yasmine Seale

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Detail — Portrait of Philippe de Croy (1460) by Rogier van der Weyden † Savonarola by Michael Hussar

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hands are insane because they're the absolute sexiest part of a body veins tendons knuckles hair on the wrist and the back of the fingers bones and blood all close to the skin screaming I AM ALIVE AND I SHAPE THE WORLD AROUND ME freckles and scars and the cryptic spiral of a fingerprint on each digit but also you cover them up with gloves and they BECOME HOTTER for some reason. and then you take the gloves off and they're hotter again. science can't explain this