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Decorative cover of ‘The Moss Rose’ a gift book published in 1850 by Nafis & Cornish.

Boston Public Library

Internet Archive  

Jules–Elie Delaunay (1828 - 1891)

Young Woman with a Sword

late 19th century

Literary history that happened on 12 July

Louis Gontier - INTERIOR OF AN ARTIST’S STUDIO

Source: Sotheby’s.com

~ Short sword and sheath.

Culture: Italic or Syrian

Period: Geometric/Latial II

Date: 9th century B.C.

Place of origin: Italy, Lazio

Medium: Bronze

I have been so fatigued by the plague and my studies that i had scarcely thought to cultivate my inspirations

Four Meters of Perfection

Michelangelo’s David at the School of Belle Arti Museum in Florence, Italy.

France. Paris. 2004. Ballet dancers behind the scenes at the Opera Garnier. Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

art detail: gold & white dresses

“I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.”

Vita Sackville-West

Orpheus and Eurydice, Edward Poynter, 1862

State Library Victoria, Melbourne

An olive tree at the Acropolis. 

my favourite Bernini statue isn’t a real statue, but the damaged clay and straw angel that was the model for the bronze statue.

Palazzo Biscari

𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚, 𝒊’𝒎 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏’ 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆

LEONARDO DA VINCI, Grand Staircase, Château de Chambord La Rouchefoucauld, France, 1519

For of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven, 1891, by Frank Bramley (1857-1915)

43/100 • 25/04/2020 ❣️ sunlight on hardwood floors and cramping fingers from a day of writing.

i’ll miss europe this summer.

Edimburgo

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Paris Opera corps de ballet in Nureyev’s Swan Lake

Photo © Ann Ray

[ dark academia - books and pages ]

A group of people lying in a drunken heap in a living room, 1954. Photographed by Kurt Hutton.

ambrosius benson (lombardy c. 1495-1550)

salvator mundi

Giuseppe Cesari (1568 – 1640) 

Archangel Michael and the Rebel Angels,detail