Thinking About Leyendecker Lawrence Of Arabia...

And I will wait for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)

Peter O’Toole, in London (1961) | T. E. Lawrence in Miranshah (1928)

Susanna and the Elders, Tintoretto 1555 - 1556 oil on canvas 146 cm × 194 cm  Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

tbh I’m never not thinking about how lawrence of arabia tricked the audience into thinking the white dude would be the moral heart and center of the movie, but nope! it’s ali!!! he literally becomes the audience surrogate by the end of act 1, and he’s definitely the moral and heart of the movie by act 2. our heart breaks because his heart breaks. lawrence is the main character, but ali is the sympathetic figure of the film in the end.

Herakles - Euripides x Hannibal NBC Season 1, Ep. 8 “Fromage”

“ Second star to the right … And straight on ‘til morning. ”

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888) details.

Jupiter Van Gogh

Goodbye Dolly, I must leave you

Though it breaks my heart to go