i wrestle alone in the dark...

There is only one hell: the one we live in now.

Titian, Empress Isabel of Portugal, 1548 (art detail)

Alonso Sánchez Coello, The infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia and Magdalena Ruiz (detail) c.1585–88 

Titian, Empress Isabel of Portugal, 1548 (art detail)

Melancholia (2011)

There is no hell, no heaven either, this world is what we make of it.

Paris barricade made from cobblestones (April 1871), photographed by Pierre-Ambrose Richebourg

On the right; Portrait of a Painter after El Greco, by Pablo Picasso

One of America’s first professional female sculptors, Harriet Hosmer met Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Rome in 1853. The Brownings, both well-known English poets, had eloped to Italy seven years earlier. Shortly after meeting the couple, Hosmer approached them about modeling their hands. Mrs Browning consented to the sculptor’s idea on the condition that Hosmer do the casting herself

Tremayna by Bill Jewitt

Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam)

Unknown Artist painting of Queen Elizabeth I

Hans Holbein the Younger

British Museum.