Las zapatillas de Mussabini

Lectio Divina, 1889 by Enrique Serra y Auque (Spanish, 1859–1918)

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464888

I’m not linking to the book, because no one should buy it. 

Seymour Joseph Guy 🇺🇸 (1824–1910)

look at the two of them. dressed to the nines. silks from france and cotton from egypt. chanel on them both. they’re at a party neither of them was invited to, but so damn good looking that no one in their right mind would turn them away at the door. the woman - titties free under that dress, scoping out women in salacious flapper dresses in gloves created from 100,000 insects’ life work. the man - smoking a cigarette he took out from the mouth of one of the millionaires at the party, saying nothing but giving him a slow smile and a wink. the flower in his lapel is fake. dying plants in your clothing is such a hideous fashion. the both of them haven’t spoken to anyone there, though everyone has tried. they stand on the stairs staring at the heterosexual proles gathered below them together, and the two of them wonder if those fools realize that they’re outclassed, that in every way, they’ve been outdone. they leave early with a bottle of champagne in each fist, and no one stops them.

-Oscar Wilde, “Preface” to The Picture of Dorian Gray

A sheep died in a bog. The top of the sheep’s back was not submerged and rotted away. The submerged parts remained perfectly preserved.

Gold inlaid flintlock fowler crafted by Jaoquin de Zelaya of Madrid, 1758. from The Philadelphia Museum of Art

J O A N

Jessica Lange

An Irish Emigrant Landing at Liverpool (Jim Blake Landing in Liverpool) Erskine Nicol (1825–1904) National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery

Daryl Hannah photographed by Helmut Newton || 1984

British Library

Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism, and one of the most important painters of the period. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.