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Vincent van Gogh: Vaso con lirios, margaridas e anémonas (1887)

Paul Delvaux: Narrador (1937)

John Lavery: A viscondesa Castlerosse (Palm Springs, 1938 )

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Kashan, Iran – 1989: Women weaving Persian carpets by hand, preserving centuries of tradition.

Historical Context: The Ainu are the indigenous people of northern Japan, traditionally living in harmony with nature as hunter-gatherers, though they faced significant assimilation policies in the 19th and 20th centuries.

cut flowers / mia forrest

raphaël neal

Attributed to Cavaliere d'Arpino. Circa 1605; oil on canvas: 103 × 69 cm (41 × 27 in).

by Girolamo Macchietti

Frank Diernhammer (1931–2019) built a private archive of male portraiture — surfers, models, hustlers, and porn stars — photographed purely for his own pleasure. Though many images circulated uncredited or misattributed, the surviving work reveals a prolific and gifted beefcake photographer whose vision spans the pre‑Stonewall era through the sexual revolution of the 1970s.

by Titus Kaphar