State Library Victoria, Melbourne

I honestly love Carmina Burana. It’s either “Oh, Mighty Fate! Who will love me? Do not let me die!” or “he’s drinking, she’s drinking, everybody’s drinking, also I have an erection” with nothing in between.

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

ambrosius benson (lombardy c. 1495-1550)

salvator mundi

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Dark Academia On A Budget Aesthetic

Thrifted/Secondhand books. Old t-shirts & jeans. Watching Dead Poets Society on 123movies. Printing sheet music from Google. Jacking your dad’s coats & sweaters. Sneaking your mom’s blazers & loafers. Cheap eyeliner & dry shampoo. Downloading PDFs of classic books. Using $1 notebooks for journaling. Gas station coffee & tea. Borrowing books from the library (and “forgetting” to return them).

The lifeboat is on its way to rescue a beached ship (details) by Carl Locher (Danish, 1851-1915)

Robin Isely, Hans Memling - Man of Sorrows c.  1480.

An olive tree at the Acropolis. 

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