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You ran with the dead today, through the cemeteries where ghosts still play, the more you ran, love got further away.

— Tom Smith, Editors
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welovepaintings: Caravaggio (1571-1610)Medusa (Detail)Oil on canvas mounted on wood1598-159955 x 60 cm(21.65” x 23.62”)Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Italy) ___ In Greek myth, Perseus used the severed snake-haired head of the Gorgon Medusa as a shield with which to turn his enemies to stone. By the sixteenth century Medusa was said to symbolize the triumph of reason over the senses; and this may have been why Cardinal Del Monte commissioned Caravaggio to paint Medusa as the figure on a ceremonial shield presented in 1601 to Ferdinand I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. The poet Marino claimed that it symbolized the Duke’s courage in defeating his enemies. Web Gallery of Art
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forbiddenalleys: Mercury Poison Antique Quack Medicine Bottle
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russwbeck: Stillwater Folklore
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