Poster art for a 2006 performance of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan concert hall. From Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography.

Tablet excerpts from Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets by Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston

Oh snap, we're getting a proper Judee Sill documentary

tewahedo (ge'ez: ተዋሕዶ täwaḥədo) is a ge'ez word meaning “being made one” or “unified”, cognate to arabic توحيد‎, tawḥīd. this word refers to miaphysitism, the oriental orthodox belief in the one single unified nature of christ; i.e., a belief that a complete, natural union of the divine and human natures into one is self-evident in order to accomplish the divine salvation of humankind.

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

Medium: oil,canvas

Medium: oil,canvas

Detail of “The Progress of Love: Love Letters”, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1771/2

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) composer of L’Orfeo, the earliest surviving opera still regularly performed.

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Medium: oil,canvas

I know Titian’s genius is well established but I’m still baffled by the amount of personality he can express through eyes. Playful, sharp, sinister, curious, carrying a heavy burden... you can tell a lot about the human behind the painting by just looking into their eyes.