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Bring this vibe back

Flaying of a corrupt judge, Italy, 1657

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Grieving woman, Canosa, Southeastern Italy, 3rd century BCE, terracotta.

There are a lot of gorgeous Mediterranean works in the San Antonio Museum of Art's collection, but this is one of my favorites. I love how expressive it is: the outstretched hands, the brows knit down in pain, the eyes beseeching heaven.

This statue would have originally been placed in an underground tomb (hypogeum), at a time when Rome was steadily taking over Canosa and the rest of Italy. But this woman is sculpted in a Canosan style, not Roman, for a Canosan family. I can't help but feel like the faded paint and mottled clay actually enhances the art's message, like she's reaching out to us 2200 years later and saying, "This is who we are. Remember us."

The Roman empire was a lot more than just the Romans.

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I know this is horrible but this comment was left on a true crime youtube video and I cannot stop laughing. 

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Customer: YOU FOOL DMV: CONFRONTATIONAL Verdict: DENIED

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Where are my low blood pressure queens at

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Me as a dad tbh

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Lolita Lempicka Fall/Winter, 1989 Ready-to-Wear

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ulrike lienbacher

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There’s layers to this

#love her orthorexic ass

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Léa Seydoux by Antonio Macarro for Vanidad Magazine, 2009

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Elliott Erwitt, New York City, 1954

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Read the lyrics on Taylor’s album. My intuition is telling me the winds of change are coming for her and the public is gonna rip her a new one once her mediocrity is undeniable even to them. Poor thing. Anyways I’m gonna have yogurt now.

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In 1963 photographer Bert Stern photographed some of the top actors/actresses at the height of their fame playing their dream roles for a photo series in LIFE magazine's December 20, 1963 issue.

Cary Grant as Charlie Chaplin's Tramp / Audrey Hepburn as Pearl White in 'Perils of Pauline' / Tony Curtis & Natalie Wood as Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky in 'The Sheik' / Paul Newman as a Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashbuckler / Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin as Judah Ben-Hur and Messala from 'Ben-Hur' / Bing Crosby & Bob Hope as 1930s gangsters / Jack Lemmon as a war pilot / Shirley MacLaine as one of Busby Berkeley's showgirls / Rock Hudson as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (Belgian,b.1951)

Botticelli 1, 2018

pencil, ink and felt tip on paper

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Somebody get this pilgrim coat for me

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The female ski team covered 1420km across Antarctica in 57 days, 1989