corpore sano

"hephaistion made this" in a beautiful trompe-l'oeil piece of paper half unstuck by the wind still some of the rawest stuff ever put in a mosaic (2nd century bc, pergamon)

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, Andreas Vesalius 1543 - Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro 2025

Roman marble funerary altar of Fabia Stratonice: relief of Hermanubis, detail, Dated to 90-110 CE (museum label)

Love Knows No Logic, 1939

15th century BC...

Alongside the UK general release of Merchant Ivory, Curzon is also running a Christmas micro-season of Ivory’s films. But I wanted to give a big shoutout to Chiswick Cinema – they’re running a much wider-ranging Ivory retrospective (spread out between now and June 2025), with newly recorded intros to all the films from Ivory! And, unlike the Curzon*, they’re actually screening Maurice (in January).

Alongside the UK general release of Merchant Ivory, Curzon is also running a Christmas micro-season of Ivory’s films. But I wanted to give a big shoutout to Chiswick Cinema – they’re running a much wider-ranging Ivory retrospective (spread out between now and June 2025), with newly recorded intros to all the films from Ivory! And, unlike the Curzon*, they’re actually screening Maurice (in January).

Roman marble, arm fragment, c 120 C.E.

Il Cinema di Pasolini (Appunti per un Critofilm) (1966) dir. Maurizio Ponzi

Half past twelve. How the years have passed. (Constantine Cavafy (1863 - 1933). Since Nine/“Joachim in the mirror” photographer, Richard Stabbert)

‘Hands of Jean Cocteau’, Berenice Abbott, 1927

via Cornell University Library on Flickr