you transfix me quite

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Florence, Italy (by Pierre)

Raphael Sanzio - Bacchante and Satyrs. 1515-1516 

— Vita Sackville-West, in a letter to Virginia Woolf, December 1926 (via dearestvita)

Photography:  Eyup Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey Photographer: Charles Roffey

Auguste Rodin, Torse Adele (1884)

Orazio Gentileschi, The Lute Player (detail), c. 1612–1615. Oil on canvas, 100 × 74 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

I imagined myself indifferent to her but I was only angry and resentful. Too late… too late I began to understand myself and her. Never have I met her equal in good sense or sweetness of character. She’s perfection itself. I’ve never loved any but her.

— Jeanette Winterson (b. 27 August 1959)

Heart in Hand Hooked Rug Untied States Mid-twentieth century

Ceremonial weapons of the Majapahit Empire, Java

Marble portrait of the co-emperor Lucius Verus (161-169 AD), detail.  Metropolitan Museum of Art.