Arthur Rimbaud, from A Season in Hell

Georges Rochegrosse (1859–1938), Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (The Knight of the Flowers)

The Black Sea At Night, Ivan Aivazovsky 

Arthur Rimbaud, Bad Blood (via le-pendu-xii)

Roberto Ferri: Pietas, 2015.

Ezra Pound, from Exultations; “Laudantes Decem Pulchritudinis Johannae Templi,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

The Thin White Duke

In 1801, the ruling court beauty was the Polish Maria Naryshkina, née Princess Czetwertyńska, whose father had been hanged as a traitor by the Polish revolutionaries in 1794. Famed for looks ‘found only in the paintings of Raphael’, ‘her beauty’, noted the memoirist Filipp Vigel, ‘was so perfect it seemed unnatural, impossible’.

Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront, 1954