superbly situated

  and to be on the safe side i wouldn’t mind if somehow  i became entangled in your perception of admirable objects   Robert Hershon  

[holyheart]

Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene / Nicolas Régnier (1625)

The Birth of Venus / Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1888)

[woundedfae]

Left: John Gast, American Progress

Right: Charles Hilliard, White Buffalo Calf Woman Bringing Back the Health and Vitality of the Land and People (Commissioned by the Indian Land Tenure Foundation)

[lionfloss]

Earth Views

[amelodie]

Georgia O’Keeffe paintings from 1960:  Pink and Green.   It Was Yellow and Pink III.   Green, Yellow and Orange. Thought to be inspired by her airplane travels.

[kaalbela]

Aari, also known as Zalakdozi is a form of embroidery originating from Kashmir. The word zalokdozi means chain stitch. Aari embroidery involves only the chain stitch done in concentric rings to fill a pattern. Zalakdozi typically uses wool, cotton, or silk thread. It is done not using a needle, but a hook known as ‘ari’. Using a hook to do this embroidery saves on time and energy as the hook is used to pull a series of loops of the chain stitch, as against the single loops that have to be done using a needle.

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[witchstone]

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss // Robert Winthrop Chanler, Leopard and Deer

[bookofjudith]

history keeps pulling me down

Falling, Florence + the Machine // The Fall of Icarus, Rene Milot // Fallen Angel, Andreas Birath

[captainvatican]

“Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again. We had lost the possession of the good; it was necessary for it to be given back to us. Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Savior; prisoners, help; slaves, a liberator. Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?”

- St. Gregory of Nyssa, Orat. catech 15: PG 45, 48B.

[taylorswiftarthistories]

Joan of Arc by Albert Lynch, 1903 / "cardigan" by Taylor Swift

[farmgf]

Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus by Nikolai Ge / Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths

[daggerdagorath]

Susanna Clarke and CS Lewis: Worlds, dreams, and worlds that feel like dreams.

The Silver Chair | Piranesi | The Magician’s Nephew | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Piranesi | The Magician’s Nephew

[willowings]

adira bennet, apology zoo.

hannibal 1.12, relevés. 2.13, mizumono.

[boykeats]

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2014) // Dacia Maraini, “Dreams of Clytemnestra,” tr. Tim Vode (1994)

[havadaabulut]

Caspar David Friedrich, The Monk by the Sea

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, (movie)

[annakarenina]

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu + Paintings

Cafe Lovers by Joseph Lorusso Portrait of a Heart by Christian Schloe The Green Gown by Thomas Edwin Mostyn The Migration Series, Panel No. 55 by Jacob Lawrence Miranda, The Tempest by John William Waterhouse The Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec On the Dunes (Lady Shannon and Kitty) by James Jebusa Shannon Two Women in a Bed disturbed by a Cat by Jean Alphonse Roehn Portrait of Edith French by John Singer Sargent Portrait of Madame Seriziat by Jacques-Louis David

[thecollectibles]

Art by Yizheng Ke

[phoebebridgersarthistory]

the banquet by rené magritte / “me and my dog” by boygenius

[virginiasummer-deactivated20200]

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (2016) // King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler - Detail (1903)