with a quiet, mad insistence

"Lucrezia was indeed a woman who lived with violence and sudden death; and yet she never lost the laughing gaiety, the irresistible charm for which she was so admired in her time. She was, it is true, very much a pawn in the hands of her ambitious family, but yet, as a woman of grace and intelligence, she was also very much a person in her own right." — Lucrezia Borgia: A Study (1953) by Joan Haslip

this is one of the best posts ever

Angela Lindvall POP #17 (2008) ph. Sebastian Faena

[Source: Christie's]

There weren’t many people in Caligula’s life, certainly family members, who he could talk to and who he could rely on. [Drusilla] was the closest person that he had had.

xxxxxxx by Mao Hamaguchi

László Hunyadi on the Bier by Viktor Madarász, 1859

Devour Me by Nikita Haar

Christus met kelk en kruis (Christ holding the Cross and a Chalice), (Detail), (1591), by Cornelis van Haarlem (Dutch, 1562 – 1638), oil on panel, 135.5 cm (53.3 in) x 106 cm (41.7 in), National Museum in Warsaw

Radúz a Mahulena (Petr Weigl, 1970).

3:00 pm in Bel Air, California, Helmut Newton, 1987

One of my favourite photos I’ve ever taken. ^-^