
Author: marcythewerewolf
tag game: what would your name be if your parents had named you like edward and bella named renesmee (renée + esme)
Oh man this is gonna be so whacky let me see you put my grandmothers’ names together and you get … Maryanne. Oh.
miscellaneous links no. 3
here’s a short history of cursed paintings and a longer investigation of haunted antiques.
- michelangelo and raphael; constable and turner; leibniz and newton. does every creative genius need a bitter rival?
- what the sleeping hermaphrodite motif in greco-roman art tells us about art, sex, and good taste.
- 2,500-year-old homoerotic graffiti was found on a wild, windswept, rocky, and remote aegean island.
- this isn’t quite as secret, but deserves to be better known: the paintings of poet e.e. cummings.
- how to respond to people who say “i could do that” when they look at modern art.
the newly uncovered colours of two van gogh paintings show how the artist’s darkening life cast a shadow over his work, and change the way art experts see the late period of his life.
- two historians discuss cosmetics in the renaissance.
I am a trainwreck of a human being but id make a good cat














