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Max Svabinsky

In Paradise

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UNKNOWN MASTER, Flemish A Young Witch 15th century Oil on panel Staatliche Museen, Leipzig

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Martha Macha

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shiningjasmin

Dancers. Fresco. XVI century before Christ.

Palace of Knossos. Crete.

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Pompei wall : unbelievable 

Italy

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/ Syd Shelton, UK-Punks, 1970s

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Deconstruction of the Planes of a Lamp [1912-13] Ardengo Soffici (1879–1964) Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

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A Fireside Read

Artist: Artist: William Mulready (Irish, 1786-1863)

Date: 1825

This picture, painted in Mulready’s liquid palette of warm caramel tones, is an unusually intimate study of domestic quiet. The little painting on the mantelpiece looks also to be by Mulready. The sitter resembles a Mrs. Leckie, with whom Mulready had a relationship.

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The term “orgy” mostly attributed to the dionysian cult and now strongly associated with acts of sexual character, didn’t initially possess this content, but signified the mystical ceremony in which only the initiated ones could participate so they could/would witness or feel a secret meaning or revelation, one that it was prohibited to share with uninitiated therefore unprepared others afterwards, therefore an oath of secrecy was an imperative condition to assure the orgiastic element of these ceremonies and rituals that Dionysus was in charge of. Greek-Roman mosaic of Dionysus and Acme (personification of prosperity) from the House of Dionysus, 3rd century A.D., Paphos, Cyprus.

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The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) detail - Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece

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Martin Wong (Chinese-American, 1946-1999) - This Night Without Seeing Her Passes Like an Eternity (1987-1988)

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Georges Bataille, Guilty

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Glass pendant in the shape of a ram's head, Carthage, 5th-4th century BC

from The Walters Art Museum

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Plato with a skull, butterfly, and Socrates' tomb, illustration by Walter Crane for The Graphic, Feb. 3, 1894.

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A Memento Mori Skeleton, France, 1566

Limestone 55 ½ in. (141 cm) high