thisobscuredesireforbeauty:

Gordon Parks. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Mobile, Alabama, 1956.
Source

theancientwayoflife:

~ A fragment of the head of Caligula.

Date: ca. A.D. 38

Medium: Fine white marble

Provenance: Syracuse, Regional Archaeological Museum “Paolo Orsi”. (Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”)

audreyhepbuns:

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

didoofcarthage:

Baths of Caracalla, Rome

Photographed by Bisson Frères, c. 1860

albumen print

National Media Museum, U.K. 

just-good-design:

The ancient concrete factory that is now the home of Axel Vervoordt gallery.

pintoras:

Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (Scottish, 1865 - 1933): Silver Apples of the Moon (1912) (via The Athenaeum)

theancientwayoflife:

~ The “Rubens Vase”.

Culture: Byzantine

Period: Late Antique

Date: ca. A.D. 400

Medium: Gold, agate

loumargi:

Francesco De Mura Allegoria delle Arti, 1747-1750

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dumbassrights:

me, opening google: inmidiatly

google: immediately

me: thanks. 

thecollectibles:

Satyress by Victor Quaresma

assyrianjalebi:

The Love Witch (2016)

trulyvincent:

Edward Hopper

(Source: trulyvincent)

centuriespast:

Winter
Alfred George Webster (1852–1916)
Usher Gallery

loumargi:

Mary L. Macomber Night and her Daughter Sleep (detail) 1902

didoofcarthage:

The Arch of Titus by Robert Macpherson. Scottish, 1850s. Albumen silver print. J. Paul Getty Museum.