Verona, Photo by David Seymour, 1956

Greek woman hanging laundry on the line, Tilburg, Netherlands, ca. 1977 - by Bertien van Manen (1935 - 2014), Dutch

San Remo. Old Town Street, 1925

Certainly The Decameron represents a departure, in many important ways, from Pasolini's films of the 1960's. Pasolini insisted that this film reflected a new vitality. A carnivalesque celebration of what he called: The joy of living and making love. I think it's fair to say that The Decameron is Pasolini's most playful film, reflecting a turning point in his career, although the film is certainly not without elements of the tragic dimensions that had characterized his earlier films. —Patrick Rumble, author of Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life

Le testament d'Orphée (1960) dir. Jean Cocteau

Le testament d'Orphée | Jean Cocteau | 1960

Le testament d'Orphée | Director : Jean Cocteau

Le testament d'Orphée | Director : Jean Cocteau

'The Elephant Man' (dir. by David Lynch) [1980]

Rumi

Tomb of Absalom, Jerusalem, Israel.1860

catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa

St. Catherine of Siena receiving the stigmata on her hands and chest while trampling the devil, 1480

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (right panel detail)

Pier Paolo Pasolini