naturalia non sunt turpia

Errol Le Cain

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

An ancient Roman drinking cup depicting Odysseus’ visit to the underworld. Credit…The J. Paul Getty Museum

The New York Public Library

plaque from a reliquary shrine of gilded copper and champlevé enamel; overall: 3.4 x 5.9 cm; mosan, valley of the meuse, gothic period c. 1200–1250.

A Plan of Rome (Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry), 1416 by Limbourg brothers (Dutch)

“The Power of Minne,” – an allegorical depiction of women’s power over men’s hearts (Broadsheet woodcut, 15th century by Master Casper von Regensburg, Berlin, SMB, Kupferstichkabinett)

Pope at the gates of Hell, Antithesis Christi et Antichristi, ca. 1490-1510

source: Munich, BSB, Clm 28345, fol. 89r

Armor of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564)

from The British Museum

A summer evening, fireflies, and an annoyed doe wishing I would get out of her territory is about as great as it gets.

Royal funeral rites from medieval manuscripts

from The Deri Museum, Hungary

Moiraine & Lan in Season Finales | The Wheel of Time 1x08 / 2x08 / 3x08