I.N.R.I
"Oh, thrice romantic Master, don't you want to stroll with your beloved by day under the cherries bursting into bloom, and int he evenings listen to Schubert's music? Won't it be pleasant for you to write with a quill by candlelight? Don't you want to sit, like Faust, over a retort, hoping to create a new homunculus? There, there is your way! Your house and old servant are already waiting for you."
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alfsaga:

By Felix Schaperr
prettyskeletons:

The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame. Georges de La Tour, c. 1640. 
tierradentro:

“Tobias Saying Goodbye to his Father”, 1860, William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
thestuartkings:

The Balbi Children 1625-1627
By Anthony van Dyck
Van Dyck used Genoa as his base during his six-year stay in Italy and spent most of 1625-7 in the city enjoying great success as a portraitist. This work, traditionally entitled ‘The Balbi Children’ because it belonged to the 18th-century collector, Costantino Balbi, shows three young aristocratic Genoese children who remain unidentified. It has been suggested that they are members of the de Franchi family, whose arms contained a black crow, but there is no documentary evidence to support this claim.
 
hadrian6:

Alexander the great and the Gordian knot. Giovanni Paolo Panini. Italian. 1691-1765.
oil on canvas.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
vcrfl:

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen: Judith with the Head of Holofernes, c.1525.
demonagerie:

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 920, detail of f. 190r (the Three Living and the Three Dead). Book of Hours, use of Rome. 15th century
tierradentro:

“Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de’ Rossi” (detail), 1518-19, Raphael.
artofmyma:

Teotihuacan culture
The Great Goddess
Drawing of mural at Tepantitla, Teotihuacan