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Frecoes from Castello della Manta, attributed to the anonymous Master of Castello della Manta. The frescoes, completed soon after 1420, portrays the Nove Prodi, the Nine Worthies with their Nine Female Heroines, Piedmont; North Italy

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Light fall in Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle Grounds, Arundel

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art movement moodboards: Pre-Raphaelite (requested by anonymous)

the members of the pre-raphaelite brotherhood believed the classical poses and elegant compositions of raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art, hence the name “pre-raphaelite.” the brotherhood sought a return to the abundant detail, intense colours, and complex compositions of quattrocento italian art

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Souvenirs de la vie dominicaine  (Taken in Toulouse, France)

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Souvenirs de la vie dominicaine  (Taken in Toulouse, France)

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In modern civilisation everything tends to suffocate the heroic sense of life. Everything is more or less mechanised, spiritually impoverished, and reduced to a prudent and regulated association of beings who are needy and have lost their self-sufficiency.

Julius Evola (via nineisamagicnumber)

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Lorenzo Monaco, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (detail), 1420. Tempera on panel, 87 × w 61.5cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Symbola diuina & humana pontificum, imperatorum, regum, 1601

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Assigning Emptiness to Meaningful Things

You were the vice I held above all else–part of me always understood it to be wrong, part of me sought to baptize it.

This is the deep pain of Adam, carried through the generations. Seeking to cling to her flesh, to become whole again. As if holding onto one another tightly enough would save you from judgement. The separation between man and woman, man and himself, man and God. This pain that can only be undone by tears and pews and a mother beholding her son.

You sang me stories of salvation glimmering with blood and gold, whispering "ave"

You brought me to the bridge you could never cross yourself/I think of you in every litany and Psalm, praying for your name to be chanted out for the salvation of souls

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George Hitchcock (1850 - 1913) 

A Dream of Christmas

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by René Groebli (born in 1927)

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St. Francis Kneeling, 1639, Francisco de Zurbaran

Medium: oil,canvas

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Dostoyevsky’s notebook from 1870-1871. Sketches for Demons. Russian State Library, Moscow.

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Dostoyevsky’s notebook from 1870-1871. Sketches for Demons. Russian State Library, Moscow.

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Fratelli Alinari. Firenze - Scala della torre di Palazzo Vecchio e veduta della Cattedrale, c.1900.

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Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in Hamlet, 1937