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Grieving woman, Canosa, Southeastern Italy, 3rd century BCE, terracotta.

There are a lot of gorgeous Mediterranean works in the San Antonio Museum of Art's collection, but this is one of my favorites. I love how expressive it is: the outstretched hands, the brows knit down in pain, the eyes beseeching heaven.

This statue would have originally been placed in an underground tomb (hypogeum), at a time when Rome was steadily taking over Canosa and the rest of Italy. But this woman is sculpted in a Canosan style, not Roman, for a Canosan family. I can't help but feel like the faded paint and mottled clay actually enhances the art's message, like she's reaching out to us 2200 years later and saying, "This is who we are. Remember us."

The Roman empire was a lot more than just the Romans.

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East German film poster for Au revoir les enfants (1987) dir. Louis Malle, released 1988. Art by Otto Kummert.

#cinema

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I think I was just born with something dark and ugly inside of me. Always waiting to be found out.

planetarium - adrienne rich/@twoheadedfawnn/ugly, bitter, and true - suzanne rivecca/a burning hill - mitski/a hora da estrela- clarice lispector/ @100493503004422/sharp objects - gillian flynn

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Isabelle Huppert as Medea

in Jacques Lassalle’s production of Euripides’ homonymous tragedy for the Festival d’Avignon (July 2000). Original photograph by Brigitte Enguerand, for ‘Médée d'Euripide’, January 5-February 10, 2001; Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Paris.

#isabelle huppert

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