I often think about the fact that Oxford University planted oak trees on sight that would be mature and ready when the beams in the building needed to be replaced (about 500 years). We no longer think like this and it shows.

conte de printemps (1990), dir. éric rohmer

Remembering the legendary Japanese actor, Toshirô Mifune (三船 敏郎), on his 106th birthday!

It’s so easy to love her

James Wong Howe was in the lab cooking up 10000 different sinister chiaroscuro lighting schemes for Burt Lancaster’s face and glasses, master at fucking work

'Le Bonheur' (1965) Agnès Varda.

Toshiro Mifune #botd * 蜘蛛巣城, Kumonosu-jô (Throne of Blood, 1957) / Akira Kurosawa

Revisting one of my personal favourites tonight - an Autochrome taken in colour 116 years ago by American photographer Thomas Shields Clarke. Whenever I scroll past it on my computer I always stop to open it - I find it such a captivating image with beautiful lighting. A nun

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Revelation (Brünnhilde discovering Sieglinde and Siegmund), by French painter Gaston Bussière (1894). Musée Thomas-Henry.

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary - Henryk Siemiradzki, 1886

Emil Otto Hoppé Sonja Andreason 1932

Holding Hands Persepolis (Iran), c. 500 BC

A Bride's Story - Kaoru Mori - 2008/20XX

1972, off the coast of Southern Italy. An amateur diver spotted a human hand sticking out of the sand 8 meters deep. At first, he thought it was a corpse. As he dug into the sand, a face emerged, followed by a 2500-year-old bronze warrior. Roman chemist Stefano Mariottini was

🇪🇬 Egypt, 1992 Photo by Ferdinando Scianna

The ancient Roman ruins at Baalbek, Lebanon, Photo by George F. Mobley, 1970

golgotha / julien duvivier

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These beauties ....