Agony

— iammyss

i am an artist, he is all that i draw.

— John Green, Looking For Alaska

— by Roberto Ferri

Sainte Chapelle, Paris.

— by Caravaggio

every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year

This illustration is based on the Demon Poem by Russian Poet Mikhail Lermontov (1814 - 1841), on which a powerful demon wondering the world alone comes upon the Georgian Princess Tamara dancing at her wedding. Upon seeing her the demon falls in love with her; and kills her husband, then begins to court her until she gives herself to him; as she can see neither a demon nor an angel. but a tortured lonely soul. But when the two kiss, the kiss is fatal to Tamara, and as she rises to Heaven, the demon is once again left alone, to wonder the world and the universe, without love or hope.