poetic sanctum |cr. Gagik Gasparyan 

joan didion, “on self-respect”

Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene and her Maid (detail), Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1625

Albayde by Alexandre Cabanel (1848)

The Death of Icarus, by Alexandre Cabanel

Georges Bataille | Histoire de L'oeil

Frederic Leighton (English, 1830-1896)

Cymon and Iphigenia

Ivan Pokidyshev, Consolation (2023)

sketches for an abandoned Reynard the Fox etching, illus. Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof. early 20th century (via wikimedia)

The Red Door, 1978

Isabel Quintanilla

oh my god. og my god. the symbolism of it all

Self portrait, 2024

Noble Knight helmet by Ynd & Kidddo

Betye Saar, Two of Every Sort, 1966, Etching

Miles Cleveland Goodwin, Prophecy, 2019