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Colette | 26 | Bi | she/her

[papillon-de-mai]

Jacob van Walscapelle — Flowers in a Glass Vase. circa 1670. details

[grundoonmgnx]

Kim Dorland, Fever Dream

[beatricecenci]

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

Nymphéas

[xanaxfarts]

The stone floor of a church in Brittany, France comes alive with color as morning sun filters through stained glass. photo: Jim Richardson

[expressions-of-nature]

Mount Rainier, Washington by Max Feingold

[random-brushstrokes]

Jean-Léon Gérôme - Veiled Circassian Beauty (1876)

[dreamsofeternity]

“She was the mistress of all the novels, the heroine of all the dramas, the vague “she” of all the volumes of verse.”

— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1857 (tr. by Eleanor Marx-Aveling)

[arthistoryvault]

John William Godward - A fair reflection

[die-rosastrasse]

❀ Baroque  + Flower Crowns ❀

Cesare Dandini - Allegory of Intelligence

Onorio Marinari - Saint Cecilia

Marten de Vos - Allegory of Smell

[eirene]

The Chatterers, 1913 Harry Willson Watrous

[lifeinpoetry]

How sublime the moon. How sublime, the mossy ruins. The fear and the fear itself.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "Yes & No," Normal Distance

[heksenkring]

Costume pour La Comtesse d’après Anna Maria Heinrich pour La Dame de Pique, Opéra de Lyon. via 

[klassizismus]

Details: An Old Time Cruiser, Thomas Somerscales, 1902

[suonko]

Edward John Poynter - The Ionian Dance [detail]

[vestatilleys]

Lotte Medelsky as Joan of Arc, 1909.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Aaron Morse (American, b. 1974, b. Tucson, AZ, USA, based Los Angeles, CA, USA) - 1: Wilderness #2, 2018  2: Wilderness, 2017, Paintings: Acrylic, Oil on Canvas

[clawmarks]

Deliciae Naturae Selectae Oder Auserlefenes Naturalien Cabinet - Georg Wolfgang Knorr - 1766-1767 - via e-rara