Sexual desire is a profoundly individual tangle of physical and psychological actions and responses, and it’s inseparable from flesh and circumstance, from instinct and memory and culture.
— Jon Pareles

— Jon Pareles

And then the eyes of the soul were opened, and I saw love coming toward me. And I saw the beginning, but I did not see its end.
— Angela da Foligno

1150-1200
Stone
Church of Sainte-Pierre, Chauvigny

Source: Andrew Testa for The New York Time

Source: Doug Mills/The New York Times

Babes of the Apocalypse: Lea Hammermeister Credit…Emile Ducke for The New York Times.

STARNINA, Gherardo di Jacopo
c. 1410
Tempera on poplar panel, gold ground, 50 x 40 cm
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon
