Gustave Flaubert in a letter to Louise Colet

Notre-Dame

Can you ever forgive me?

Caustic wit is my religion.

François Flameng (detail, 1903)

/ Fei Fei Sun / / shot by Ben Toms / December 2016

George Frederic Watts (detail, 1864)

(Ali Ahmad Said) ADONIS

Selected Poems

– I also long to go home. – Isn’t Pei your home? – Home has many meanings.

I speak to you over cities

Museé du Louvre

Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi (1638) (detail)

Venus and Cupid with an Organist (1549)