Hand Mirror

Hand Mirror

Etruscan, 470-450 BCE

Found in women’s graves, bronze mirrors were luxurious personal possessions used in life and then buried with the dead for use in the afterlife. One side was highly polished; the other side was usually engraved with a mythic scene, such as this one, which shows the goddess Eos carrying the body of her son, Memnon, who was killed by the hero Achilles. The episode was taken from Homer’s The Iliad, the epic poem that narrates the Greek siege and eventual defeat of the city of Troy.

Disse: Amore

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E quando Dio creò, Lui disse: Amore

,lo disse così forte e con potenza

da metter nel creato la sua essenza

che esplode nella gioia e nel dolore.

Ripetono amore le creature

creando e ricreando loro specie

e madre Gea in sua superficie

accoglie e nutre e della vita ha cure.

Amore che si dona è fecondo,

ripete altro amore e sa gioire

allor che sgorga vita dal profondo

venuta al mondo pure per soffrire,

chè amore e sofferenza hanno nel fondo

le doglie e poi la gioia ad inseguire.

Riciclo da seguire:

il ciel, la terra il mare e l'universo

ogni essere in amore è lindo e terso.

Se il vivere è avverso

placa il dolore amore ed è catarsi

potenza di volere e rinnovarsi.

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@SusanLett

🎨Flora e Zefiro_ William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1875).

Ovidio racconta che un giorno, la bellissima ninfa Flora venne rapita, per amore, dal vento Zefiro del quale divenne poi la sposa.

Gold and carnelian pendant depicting the goddess Shir, uncovered near Gandhara in Pakistan, Kushan Empire, 2nd century AD

from The Cleveland Museum of Art

Capolavori dell'arte egizia, l'arte per i morti (illustri)

Coffin of Hornedjitef, Ptolemaic Egypt, circa 240 BC

from The British Museum

Una pioniera del movimento LGBT in America, cara Ruth Ellis grazie di tutto, e che gli angeli ti portino in cielo!

🏳️‍🌈 Ruth Ellis (1899 - 2000) was the daughter of former slaves. She came out as a lesbian when she was 16-years-old to the complete acceptance of her family. In 1937, Ruth and her longtime partner moved to Detroit from their hometown of Springfield, Illinois for the promise of higher wages. There, she became the first woman in Michigan to run her own printing business. She printed fliers, posters, and stationary in the front room of her home, which also quickly became a hotspot for Black LGBTQ social life. Before long, Ruth was helping those who came around in any way she could, including by paying for college tuitions. After the Stonewall uprising, 70-year-old Ruth began giving speeches in support of gay and lesbian rights all across the country. She remained an activist for the rest of her long life and even spent her 100th birthday leading the San Francisco Dyke March. At the time of her death at 101, she was recognized as the oldest out lesbian in the US. She is the subject of the documentary "Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100" and is the namesake of the Ruth Ellis Center, a shelter for homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth in Detroit.

Celebrate Ruth Ellis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis_(activist)

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