Marina Aleksandrova as Catherine the Great on set of Ekaterina (season 3)
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Villa Borghese, Rome (by Carola Gasparri)
Prague (by Chad Goddard)
The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel near Potsdam, Carl Blechen, 1832
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It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?
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Henry Cabot Lodge, John Singer Sargent | Zwei Hände Mit Stock, Wilhelm Leibl
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AESTHETIC : ACADEMIC MURDER
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless - Donna Tartt
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