Venus Riding a Satyr

1602-08

QUADE VAN RAVESTEYN, Dirck de

(1565-1620)

Oil on canvas, 186 x 116 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

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Shintai

The desire for propagation has become more complicated, and even with the lower animals moral characteristics are transmitted through sexual love. Therefore love affects both body and soul and one is nothing without the other.

— August Strindberg

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Veronica

Femme Fatale

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Bebe Buell

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Bust of a goddess

ca. 1085 – 715 B.C.

Egyptian

Third Intermediate Period

Princeton University Art Museum

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And The Sea 11

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Female figure on throne

late 5th – early 4th century B.C.

Greek, Attic 

Princeton University Art Museum

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Ms Cain 2

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Tributary

The wrinkles

Across your shirt

Tributaries

To your body

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Carla


In the corner, the black spider

She spins her drama and sleeps

The sleep of a mane of hair.

And the room eats her dreams.

— Jean-Pierre Duprey

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