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Juniper, laurel, and palm branches are held together by a band inscribed by ‘Beauty Adorns Virtue’ in Latin. 

Van Gogh details at Musée d’Orsay, Paris

— Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop (via tormentsofman)

Die Gartenlaube (1885) L'enterrement d'Atala / The burial of Atala. By Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois

Triqueti, like many artists of his time, was inspired by medieval and Renaissance art and literature. He often represented the Italian poet Dante (1265-1321) or illustrated episodes from Dante’s Divine Comedy. Here, using a half-length format that recalls antique funerary statuary, he portrayed Dante with Roman poet Virgil, who guided him through Hell and Purgatory in the Divine Comedy. Dante holds a scroll inscribed with a line from Canto One of Purgatory: “Liberta va cercando ch’e si cara” (He who goes seeking freedom which is so dear).

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19th century painting of the ballroom at the Winter Palace, Russia by Mihaly Zichy

Details from Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors

check these glossy fuckin scans of the original manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray in Oscar’s own hand (full size: 1; 2; 3; 4; source)

T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock