Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo

El mundo amarillo. Albert Espinosa. (via amaneceresdespiertos)

So true

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St. Carlo Borromeo by Orazio Borgianni.

Oh Catholic Church, you rascal! Not only over-looking it but justifying rape at least since the XVI Century.

“In a sermon delivered in the Lombard town of Lecco on 2 July 1583, Borromeo went even further. Reflecting on the murky biblical tale of the rape of Dinah (Genesis 34), he argued that the origins of all such sexual crimes lay within the sense of sight. Dinah was at fault for the rape, he decreed, because she had allowed herself to be seen and had underestimated what can happen when men are given sight of the flesh that they sinfully covet” (Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio).

jaded-mandarin:

The Princesses Isabel Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela, 1575. Detail.

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fromme-toyou:

Fresh Beauty~

I’m feeling so inspired by spring! The pink blossoms, cafés filling up the sidewalk with little tables full of friends and lovers, and that feeling I get where all is new again, that possibilities for the year are endless. 

While at a friend’s apartment on one of those perfect 70 degree Manhattan days I found myself inquiring about Chelsa’s glowing, fresh and perfect for spring makeup. She was sweet enough to let me photograph her and patient enough to give me notes on all she is wearing so that I could joit it down here for you other beauties who like me, change with the seasons…

• Foundation: Koh Gen Do Aqua Foundation 
• Bronzer: Clinique True Bronze in Sun Blushed
• Blush: Clinique Berry Delight
• Glow: Clinique Moisture Surge Face Spray Thirsty Skin Relief
• Eyes: Mac Paint in Bare Canvas 
• Mascara: L’Oreal Voluminous Mascara in Carbon Black 
• Lips: MAKE UP FOR EVER in Rouge Artist Intense / Color #39

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Bertrand Russell (via explore-blog)

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“Caravaggio sees what he sees with such intensity - even if it is only an image in his mind’s eye, an image conjured from the imagination - that he makes seeing itself seem a compulsive and potentially fraught act. This is why Caravaggio’s paintings have a destructive effect on pictures by other artists hung anywhere near them in art galleries. They exert such a sensually charged, magnetic attraction that they seem almost as though backlit, or somehow illuminated from within, while the pictures around them - even those of great artists, whether Rembrandt or Poussin or Velázquez - appear by comparision to recede, to retreat from the gaze.”

-Andrew Graham-Dixon Caravaggio

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“The way in which Caravaggio adapted the conventions of popular sculpture to painting, the way in which he made them thoroughly pictorial -above all through his use of light and shade - was so original that it gave painters nothing less than a whole new grammar and vocabulary.”

- Andrew Graham-Dixon Caravaggio

Enrique Vila-Matas - Porque ella no lo pidió. (via mgl86)

artmastered:

Carl Vilhelm Holsoe, A Sunlit Interior, n.d.

nevver:

Beware, the Ides of March

martamiraalrededor:

El brillante Sir George Bernard Shaw es la única persona que ha ganado un Premio Nobel (Literatura, 1925) y también un Oscar (en la categoría de mejor guión) por “My Fair Lady”, basada en su obra Pigmalión. Bernard Shaw escribió esta breve frase, llena de sabiduría:

“Los políticos y los pañales se han de cambiar a menudo… y por los mismos motivos”.

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Si una noche de invierno un viajero de Italo Calvino

strangewood:

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

Charles Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977)

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