daughter of chaos

Gabrielle ⊹ art lover ⊹ fond of nature and finding beauty in things ⊹*⊹*⊹ I'm amorous but out of reach, a still life drawing of a peach

[phantastische-illustrationen]

The Annotated Dracula, 1975 (Wilfried Sätty)

[greelin]

“what’s up with you and vampires, man?” we don’t have the time to discuss this

[m3dieval]

Stab me like one of your French girls

KK5013 Gladiatoria. 1430s, German.

[clawmarks]

Ames' book of flourishes - Ames, Daniel, T. - 1890 - via Internet Archive

[daughterofchaos]

Playing Card, Ten of Clubs, late 19th century, made by B.P. Grimaud, lithograph on paper

Ten of Clubs playing card from a pack of transformation playing cards. Vertically, an elaborate scene of a male figure in armor laid out for his funeral, his head crowned with laurel leaves, his hands clasped in prayer. Ten black clubs integrated with the scene.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

[pmamtraveller]

“the fairy melusine and the knight raymondin” by jean dampt, 1894

[memories-of-ancients]

Bascinet, France, last quarter of the 15th century

from The Musee de l'Armee

[cair--paravel]

‘Chevalier de la Nuit’ perfume by Ciro, bottle by Julien Viard, 1924.

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

A Knights Dress by Frieda Lepold

[antiqueanimals]

Don Balke (American, b. 1933). Possum, 1983. Gouache and watercolor on board.

MutualArt

[indigrassy]

Chicory skies

[daughterofchaos]

It pleases me every summer to see wild chicory flowers along the roadside.

top photo & bottom photo credit

[holohedral]

wildflowers thriving on the side of the road i see you i love you girls

[heaveninawildflower]

Matricaria Chamomilla (Chamomile) taken from Flora Batava (1822).

KB National Library of the Netherlands

Wikimedia.

[clawmarks]

Keramic studio - 1899 - via Internet Archive

[nlmglass]

Sympathetic Magic, Janis Miltenberger

Flameworked glass, 30 x 19 x 11

[plethores]

What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999), dir. Sofia Coppola