tbh I’m never not thinking about how lawrence of arabia tricked the audience into thinking the white dude would be the moral heart and center of the movie, but nope! it’s ali!!! he literally becomes the audience surrogate by the end of act 1, and he’s definitely the moral and heart of the movie by act 2. our heart breaks because his heart breaks. lawrence is the main character, but ali is the sympathetic figure of the film in the end.
Princess Apostle Olga. 1893 The image of the iconostasis of the southern chapel in the choirs of Vladimir Cathedral -
Nesterov Mikhail Vasilievich
Liebesszene (Love Scene), Käthe Kollwitz (1909-10) / Hannibal 3.13 The Wrath of the Lamb
Alexandre Cabanel “Fallen Angel” detail.
obsessed with the fact that Ilya Repin had his friend Vselovod Garshin model for Ivan the Younger in this painting and his reasoning was "He just looks like he's going to die a tragic death". Garshin committed suicide 3 years later.
gustave courbet, self portrait (the desperate man) / the picture of dorian gray (2009)
~” y o u t r o u b l e m e l i k e w o m e n “~
(lawrence\ali genderbend)
Peter O’Toole, in London (1961) | T. E. Lawrence in Miranshah (1928)
This is so pretty ♡♡♡
Name moodboard for Ksenia @temple-of-bullets
-Pastel
And Phaethon, as he inhaled the air, burning and scorching as a furnace blast, and saw destruction on the flaming world, and his great chariot wreathed in quenchless fires, was suddenly unable to endure the heat, the smoke and cinders, and he swooned away.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2
if there’s anything i would describe as my aesthetic it would probably be these pictures of the fire