#gioacchino assereto

[stigmatam4rtyr]

Death of Cato (c.1640) | Gioacchino Assereto

[granstromjulius]

Gioacchino Assereto

[waldires]

Diogenes with His Lantern by Gioacchino Assereto (1600-1649). Kedleston Hall and Eastern Museum, oil on canvas 114,5x162,5 cm

[drrestlesshate]

Gioacchino Assereto - Prometeo, XVII sec

[thismustbeso]

Everything Sad is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri / Cain Slaying Abel (~1640-1650), Gioacchino Assereto / The Sacrifice of Isaac (1616), Pedro Orrente / Crucified Christ (1896), Viktor Vasnetsov

[oldroze]

Saint Jean Baptiste (1630) - Gioacchino Assereto

[catoswound]

cato's wound 👍

guillaume guillon lethière

françois-andré vincent

pierre narcisse guérin

gioacchino assereto

giovanni battista langetti

johann carl loth

[littlesliceofimmortality]

Tantalus by Gioacchino Assereto. circa 1640s

[mojowitchcraft]

"I like your place."

"You've said," Steve replies, looks at Eddie over one of his cigarettes. "'Cause it's quiet."

"That, too. But it tests me." Eddie smiles around his exhale. Tilts his chin upward and mutters the next part so Steve barely catches it. "Tantalean punishment of the highest measure."

He doesn't explain further and Steve doesn't care enough to ask.

is your light on? chapter 14: illumination | steddie | explicit

The flame flickers and shrinks and Eddie hesitates before handing it back, gives Steve an extra long look.

"What?" Steve tucks it back in his pocket. Eddie's still staring at him, smoke drifting slowly.

"Your, uh," Eddie finally looks away. "Your hair's getting longer."

"Ah," Steve combs his fingers through the back, once. "Little bit."

"Gonna grow it out? Compete with me?"

"Nah, I should get it cut," Steve replies, thrown by his tone. "I can't pull it off like you can."

"I'll cut it," Eddie says, voice light, hand in front of his face. He clears his throat. "If you want."

(1991)

[read on ao3]

[beatainfernaluz]

The Torture of Prometheus - Gioacchino Assereto, 1648.

[chiaroscurko]

Gioacchino Assereto, The Philistines Gouging out Samson's Eyes (detail), ca. 1627-28 (X)

AEW Dynamite - December 20, 2023

[palazzideirolli]

🎉✨ Celebriamo San Giovanni Battista, il patrono di Genova! 🎉✨ Il 24 giugno, Genova onora il suo protettore con tradizioni secolari. Anche se San Giorgio è il simbolo della città, è San Giovanni Battista che protegge le nostre navi dalle tempeste sin dal 1327, quando l'Arcivescovo benedisse il mare per la prima volta. Le reliquie del Battista, riportate dalla Prima Crociata, salvarono i genovesi da un furioso fortunale nel 1098, consolidando il legame speciale con il santo. Ancora oggi, la vigilia è illuminata da falò che allontanano gli spiriti maligni, mentre il 24 giugno una solenne processione porta le reliquie al Porto antico per la benedizione del mare.

Unisciti ai festeggiamenti! 🔥🙏⛵ #SanGiovanni #Genova #Tradizioni #palazzideirolli #palazzoreale #unesco

(San Giovanni Battista nel deserto, Gioacchino Assereto, Palazzo Reale di Genova)

[masculinityofalways]

Tantalus - Gioacchino Assereto

[gunsandspaceships]

The Torture of Prometheus

Tony Stark - Prometheus

According to the myth of Prometheus, the titan stole fire from the gods to give it to humans (in another version of the myth he returned it to the people because Zeus took it from them). For this, Zeus ordered Hephaestus, a friend of Prometheus, to chain the titan forever to a rock in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains and sent an eagle (or vulture) to peck at his liver (or heart) every day.

Zeus' actions towards Prometheus are seen as a cruel betrayal, given Prometheus' role in the Titanomachy (the war between the Olympians and the Titans), where he fought on Zeus' side and ensured victory for the Olympians.

The Mountains

As has already been shown in that post, the ancient Greeks called the Hindu Kush (the mountain range in Afghanistan where Tony was held captive) the "Caucasus Mountains". After Alexander the Great set foot here on his way to India, these mountains became a place associated with Prometheus.

"Hephaestus, Bia and Crato Securing Prometheus on Mount Caucasus" Henry Fuseli

Crucified Hero

Prometheus was condemned to eternal suffering and chained to a rock in the mountains. He is often depicted bound in a cruciform manner.

"Prometheus Bound" Thomas Cole

Tony in front of the Hindu Kush (first of many "Crucified Hero Shots" with him)

Three months

In each version of the myth, the time Prometheus spent in the mountains includes the number three: 13 generations, 30, 300, 3000 years...

Prometheus' Heart

In this part I have shown that the eagle or vulture tormented Prometheus by pecking at his center of life, which in some versions of the myth was the liver, and in some other versions the heart.

Every day the eagle tore apart Prometheus' chest, and every night his body healed.

Tony underwent two complex surgeries in that cave (performed by Yinsen - Chiron). The first surgery he had to endure awake, while his chest was "pecked out" to remove beak-shaped shrapnel.

"The Torture of Prometheus" Gioacchino Assereto

Then, to implant the reactor and a pacemaker, he went through the second surgery, for which his chest was cracked open again.

He was left disabled, with constant pain and conditions that put him at the risk of sudden (due to arrhythmia) or slow and painful death (pneumonia, blood poisoning, reactor damage, etc).

Prometheus chose to suffer in silence.

"Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise; What was thy pity's recompense? A silent suffering, and intense; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not show, The suffocating sense of woe, Which speaks but in its loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless."

"Prometheus" by Lord Byron

"The Titan’s response to his condition, his “precepts,”--Prometheus is silent throughout his suffering. His will not speak “…but in loneliness,” and even then, he is jealous should the sky listen in, nor will he utter a sigh for fear of the echo." (Source)

This torturous execution lasted for many years, and Prometheus was forced to endure terrible pain every day. However, he did not lose heart and continued his fight against wicked gods.

"Titan! to thee the strife was given Between the suffering and the will, Which torture where they cannot kill; And the inexorable Heaven, And the deaf tyranny of Fate, The ruling principle of Hate, Which for its pleasure doth create The things it may annihilate, Refus'd thee even the boon to die: The wretched gift Eternity Was thine—and thou hast borne it well."

[fromedennn]

“tantalus,” gioacchino assereto

“saturn devouring his son,” francisco goya | “eat your young,” hozier

[braindeadfury2023]

Le Tintoret - Le paradis

Le Dominiquin - Les funérailles de l'empereur

Gioacchino Assereto - Moïse et l'eau du rocher

Nicolas Poussin - Le Parnasse