‘germanic warrior with helmet’ - osmar schindler (1902)
The second best thing about erotic art is seeing people reject their initial reaction to it. The comments are full of people saying “oh my first thought was,” and, yeah, your first thought was right. The barbarian youth is sexually dominating the old Roman order. If you actually could get your mind out of the gutter you’d be the first animal to ever do so.
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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
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15th century Timurid Qur'an copied on Chinese paper from the Ming Dynasty.
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