hour of magic

fly while the darkness of night lasts, while the flame of love burns in the eyes 🧷

[antoniettabrandeisova]

St Mark’s Square in Venice, Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (German, 1808–1894)

[beatricecenci]

Alfons Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939)

Madona z lilií

[t4timekeeper]

people have the audacity to equate vanilla with “plain”. the fruit of a delicate orchid pollinated by hand. worth its weight in solid gold and beyond. the fussy black-and-cream jewel of the american continent. you sick son of a bitch. imagine a world without vanilla. no blondies. no pound cakes. no crème brûlée, no coke floats. no cream soda. no satiny new york-style cheesecakes. no warm apple pie à la mode. no velvety complexity to bring out complex notes in chocolate desserts. no depth of flavour in your cakes and cookies and milkshakes. all in just a few precious seeds or grams of paste or perfumed teaspoons of liquid black platinum. what you don’t understand could fill the library of alexandria seven times over and then some. you ungrateful bastard i’m going to kill you

[loveletters2myself]

I hope June brings us love, love and more love.

[tierradentro]

“The Threatened Swan”, c.1650, Jan Asselijn.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Raising of Lazarus, Jean Jouvenet, 1706

[aqua-regia009]

Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1598-99) - Caravaggio

[aqua-regia009]

Lacrimosa (2020) - Nicola Samori

[detailsofpaintings]

Workshop of Rubens, Anne d’Autriche, reine de France (detail)

c. 1625

[karrova]

Virgin and Child (detail) by Joos van Cleve

[robert-hadley]

Louis Gontier - INTERIOR OF AN ARTIST’S STUDIO

Source: Sotheby’s.com

[liturgical-agenda]

Scene from the Academy in Copenhagen (Scene fra Akademiet i København), c.1827 Knud Baade (Norwegian, 1808-1879)

[mysteriousartcentury]

Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (1840-1915), Get finished Flowering, 1870, oil on canvas, 55.3 x 67.5 cm. Oblastní galerie Liberec

[spiritsdancinginthenight-deacti]

Mary Magdalene as a Hermit (detail), Francesco Hayez, 1833.

[pslyshy]

Paintings by Peder M. Monsted

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[pmikos]

Pedro Américo (Brazilian, 1843-1903), Hamlet’s vision, 1893. Oil on canvas. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.

 (by hauk sven)

[beatricecenci]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905)

Le Printemps