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ANGEL IN THE MARBLE
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alighixri · 6 days ago
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Gabriel Ferrier, Moonlit Dreams
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alighixri · 8 days ago
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Carmen Dell'Orefice for Harper’s Bazaar (1951) Photography: Lillian Bassman
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alighixri · 9 days ago
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"And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”
- Nathaniel Orion, "Hevel"
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alighixri · 17 days ago
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Ara Pacis Augustae - Tellus panel
13-9 BCE
Rome, July 2015
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alighixri · 18 days ago
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Merton College, Oxford. Week 1.
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alighixri · 25 days ago
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Armour of Henry II, King of France, circa 1555
From the Met Museum
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alighixri · 25 days ago
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Lincoln College, Oxford. week 0.
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alighixri · 1 month ago
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Philosophy - Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019 (1st) Oil on canvas, 100x120cm
Ideal - Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019 (2nd) Oil on canvas
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alighixri · 1 month ago
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Danaides by John William Waterhouse, 1903
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alighixri · 1 month ago
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Looking up from my desk at the swirling lines of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera - the first round library in England 📚.
(also check out my new blog website about Oxford! *:・゚✧)
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alighixri · 1 month ago
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𝔴𝔢’𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔞 𝔟𝔦𝔱 𝔱𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔭𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔱
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alighixri · 1 month ago
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Garden in the Wachau (detail), c. 1939. Hugo Charlemont (Austrian, 1850–1939)
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alighixri · 2 months ago
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Frescoes. House of the Vettii, Pompeii. Photos: Silvia Vacca
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alighixri · 2 months ago
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Tiny virtuoso. Ca. 1880s. Source.
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alighixri · 2 months ago
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The Three Ages , Arrigunaga - Agustín Reche Mora 
Spanish , b. 1954 -
Oil on canvas , 61 x 38 cm.
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alighixri · 2 months ago
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Underworld Gate and Temple of Hades/Pluto in Pamukkale, Ancient Hierapolis, Turkey
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alighixri · 2 months ago
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A young Roman receives a shoulder ride
Detail from the funerary altar of Q. Fulvius Faustus and Fulvius Priscus, which is dated to the first half of the 1st century AD.
Courtesy of & can be viewed at the Terme di Diocleziano, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. Photo taken by Nick Thompson.
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