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"Ah, ah! You handmaidens, look at them there: like Gorgons, wrapped in sable garments, entwined with swarming snakes!"
- Orestes pursued by the Furies
🎨 John Singer Sargent. MFA Boston
ALT Image by Krscal: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Singer_Sargent%2C_John_-_Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies_-_1921.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original Text from "Libation Bearers" by Aeschylus, trans. Herbert Weir Smyth.
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Mosaïque représentant les neuf muses (milieu du IIIe s. ap. J.-C.). Retrouvée à Trèves, elle est exposée au Rheinisches Landesmuseum de Trèves en Allemagne.
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If Jesus can cast demons out of a man, 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝟮,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗶𝗴𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀? What the fuck did the pigs do?
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Medieval Alchemy from Solidonius Philosophys by Paracelsian alchemist Barnaud Nicolas (c. 1710)
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Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Selene and Endymion, Roman, early 3rd century AD
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She knows you’re looking at her.
And she doesn’t look away.
And that was part of the problem.
In her time, that attitude was hardly considered acceptable in a woman.
Francisco Soria painted her nude, confident and completely at ease with her own body.
She isn’t ashamed.
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The giant millstone turns,
crushes marble into sand,
sand into nothing,
and nothing into bread.
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Sleeping Muse by artist Misha Frid, Russian-born American sculptor, artist, graphic designer, and filmmaker.
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