Courage, dear heart

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1814

The mosaic floor of a dining room in a Roman villa in Antandros in Anatolia, which was occupied between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD.

You see, he and I are… he and I are so similar. Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

 National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Photo: Giorgio Albano

Details from the painting Medea meditating on killing her children (1852), by Bezzuoli.

autochrome by Thomas Shields Clarke, 1910

Stefanie Martini as Lady Ev EMERALD CITY (2016-2017)

Jan van Eyck - Madonna of Chancellor Rolin. Detail. 1420 - 1440

— The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, diary entry no 188 for 14 May 1956

Detail of a fruit-bearing tree from the Great Palace Mosaics. Culture: Early Byzantine. Date: c. 6th century AD (Justinian I era). Medium: Floor mosaic featuring limestone, terracotta, and glass tesserae. Collection: Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. Photo licensed by me.

opéra côté costume - opéra national de paris (1995)

Eavan Boland, from An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967–1987; “Yeats in Civil War,” (x)

Oil on wood , 70 x 50 cm

Pleasant Dreams (1852). Henry Nelson O’Neil (1817-1880).

— Angela Carter, The Erl-King (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

from The British Museum

...which, as far as I can tell, is a Middle French grammar joke.