[eyelovelisa]

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard (via neuromaencer)

[slojnotak-deactivated20161020]

Jan van Huysum - Still Life with Flowers and Fruit (1715) 

[saturnsdaughter]

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, La veuve inconsolable, c.1762-63

[centuriespast]

The Bower of Pan

by Richard Westall

Date painted: 1800

Oil on canvas, 88.5 x 106.2 cm

Collection: Manchester City Galleries

[zijperspace]

'Fiori' - Federico Andreotti.

[elespleendeparis]

Eva Gonzalès: La toilette, 1879.

[thecolorblockcurator]

A Villa Garden, Manuel Garcia y Rodriguez

[a-l-ancien-regime]

Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice

[raisedbymyths-deactivated201812]

Paradise By Jan Brueghel the Younger(c. 1620). 31 x 21.5 cm

[frag-mented]

The Night Watch (Detail) - Rembrandt, 1642

[cordisartis]

The Money Changer and His Wife

1514

Quentin Massys, the Younger

[artsandcrafts28blog]

Federico Andreotti - “The Finishing Touches”

unknown date

[lanakapriznaya-deactivated20151]

Portrait of Madame Récamier by François Gérard, 1805.

[radical-traditionalism]

From my Nietzschean/Spenglerian point of view, mere conservatism is not really an alternative to decadence. Instead, it is a form of decadence, for a healthy organism does not merely preserve or repeat the past, but carries it forward and transforms it creatively.

Greg Johnson (via hierarchical-aestheticism)

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

David Roberts (1796-1864) - Petra’s Treasury, Jordan. 1839.

[pc-loadletter]

Land of Makebelieve - Maxfield Parrish

[greuze]

Pierre Désiré Guillemet, Portrait of a Lady of the Court Playing the Tambourine (Detail), 19th Century