big b

historian || book reader || mom || plants

[hideki-koga]

カワセミ（Common kingfisher）

[ancientcharm]

Colourful paint pigments preserved in their original pots.

Antiquarium of Pompeii 

[jetix]

Basketball hoop in Itoman, 2025-12-22

[reverberationssilencieuses]

Alocasia baginda ‘Dragon scale’

via James Wong, Botanygeek

[the-punforgiven]

Maybe I'll feel better after I swing my fuckhuge big sword around a bit

[1five1two]

'An Arcadian Landscape'. Ferdinand Knab. 1897.

[professorerudite]

[professorerudite]

[voskhodart]

alone, just like you'll be.

[letsknightinarmour]

[trigona-necrophaga]

my devoted but dangerously unstable knight will be hearing about this

[theodorafrompluto]

Victory, A Knight Being Crowned With A Laurel Wreath (late 19th century)

by Sir Frank Dicksee

[7pleiades7]

Dante and Beatrice, (Detail), (c. 1906), by Salvatore Postiglione (Italian, 1861 – 1906), signed bottom right ’Sal. Postiglione’, oil on canvas, 101 cm (39.7 in) x 150 cm (59 in), Private Collection

[theodorafrompluto]

Detail of St. George in Armour Being Kissed By Una (1914)

by Phoebe Anna Tracquair

[velvetnightgallery]

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)

[didoofcarthage]

Onyx cameo of Ariadne, in a modern gold ring. Greek, Hellenistic Period, 3rd-2nd centuries B.C. In the Royal Collection. 

Description from the Royal Collection Trust:

Cameo with a head of Ariadne, consort of Dionysos, facing to the right with her gaze slightly lifted. She wears a wreath of ivy leaves and berries. Her hair is gathered in a roll at the back and ringlets cascade down her neck with a stray lock before the neck. A trace of her dress becomes visible along the neckline. The rather fleshy features and short nose recall portraits of Ptolemaic queens and the resemblance may be deliberate since such assimilation to deities was common practice.

[craig-h-stuart]

Library Table

Maker: Herter Brothers (German, active New York, 1864–1906)                Date:1879–82                                                                                     Geography: Made in New York, New York, United States 

[beatricecenci]

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)

Saskia van Uylenburgh in arcadisch kostuum