Alexandra

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[niurd]

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[7pleiades7]

Thisbe (1875) by Edwin Long (British, 1829 – 1891), monogramed and dated ‘18 EL 81’ (lower right), oil on canvas, 57 ⅘ x 31 ½ in. (147 x 80 cm), Private Collection

[recolored-classics]

Flaming June (1895) by Frederic Leighton

[thingsfromthedirt]

[haluca]

The Queen of Sheba (1911)

Edmund Dulac (French, 1882 – 1953)

[pmamtraveller]

The Serenade

by Leonard Raven-Hill (British, 1867–1942).

[noosphe-re]

"The Concourse of the Birds", folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds), painting by Habiballah of Sava (Iranian, active ca. 1590–1610), author: Farid al-Din `Attar (Iranian, Nishapur ca. 1142–ca. 1220 Nishapur), ca. 1600, Isfahan, Iran; ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper (The Met)

[not-a-nice-man-to-know]

I throw my passport in a sea,

And name you as my country.

I throw all the dictionaries in the fire

And name you as my language.

- Nisar Qabbani

[medraut-pendragon]

Médée by Joseph Stallaert (1880)

[classicalcanvas]

The Magic Circle (1886) by John William Waterhouse

[classicalcanvas]

Zodiac (1896) by Alphonse Mucha

[classicalcanvas]

Argenteuil, Flowers by the Riverbank (1877) by Claude Monet

[classicalcanvas]

Cleopatra (1887) by John William Waterhouse

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

Circe, the Enchantress by Edmund Dulac, 1915.

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

I do like an enchanting Circe after all, majestic and sovereign

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[postcard-from-the-past]

Roman Amphitheatre in El Jem, Tunisia

French vintage postcard