Claude Paradin, Devises Heroïques, 1567

“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Quedlinburg, Germany 1920s

Sword with gold and silver decorated hilt from Nuremburg, Germany, dated 1547

from The Dresden State Art Collection

Hockenheim, 2019

the transformation of daphne

miniature from a copy of ovid's metamorphoses (middle french translation by clément marot). france, after 1531

source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 117, fol. 28v

Simply angelic.

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'Christ Mocked' by Gustave Dore, c. 1880

Jupiter and Semele (Gustave Moreau, 1895)