And Phaethon, as he inhaled the air, burning and scorching as a furnace blast, and saw destruction on the flaming world, and his great chariot wreathed in quenchless fires, was suddenly unable to endure the heat, the smoke and cinders, and he swooned away.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2
BECKET (1964) // LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
Westeros postcard series + Monet (¾)
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Sophia Myles in ‘Tristan & Isolde’ (2006).
The mughal emperor Jahangir struck coins with the 12 signs of the zodiac
Basically Sherif Ali and Lawrence
les miserables 1964: Grantaire and Enjolras after Le Cabuc’s execution
Jupiter Van Gogh
𝖂𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖓 𝖎𝖓 𝖆𝖗𝖙 𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 + 𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖙𝖊𝖘
Mary Magdalene by Jan Boeckhorst / Lucretia by Rembrandt / Cleopatra by Guido Cagnacci / Medea by Giuseppe Bezzuoli / Salome by Onorio Marinari
Princess Apostle Olga. 1893 The image of the iconostasis of the southern chapel in the choirs of Vladimir Cathedral -
Nesterov Mikhail Vasilievich
The Eruption of Vesuvius (details) by Sebastian Pether (British, 1790 - 1844)
Safavid carpet, 16th c. GORGEOUS.