Girl With Lute. 1905. George Lawrence Bulleid

Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593 - c. 1656): Saint Sebastian tended by Irene (via Sotheby’s)

Éramos como estrellas iracundas: llenos de libros, manifiestos, amores desolados, desoladamente tristes a la orilla del mundo, víctimas victoriosas de un severo y dulce látigo de aura crepuscular. Efraín Huerta. Tristan e Isolda. Rogelio de Egusquiza, 1910. Detalle.

List of Roman Emperors. Profiles probably taken from coins[1447x2048]

A colossal status of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (r. 117 to 138 CE) found in the ruins of a bathhouse at Sagalossos, a Greco-Roman city in south-central Turkey. It is estimated the statue stood between 13 and 16 feet (4 and 5 meters) tall. 

That’s pretty big! It was an announcement of the power of Rome, personified by Rome’s divine emperor.

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Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Beirut

Bourdain learns of the the struggles of Palestinian refugees from Syria in Lebanon

Details from Venus and Her Satellites, 1835.

William Etty (British, 1787-1849)

Oil on panel