Verba volant, scripta manent

And wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth  

[demolina]

→ history + favourite iberian queen consorts

[catchymemes]

MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE

[filmonportraits]

louis garrel in the dreamers (2003)

[mistressvera]

Anastasia (1956) | costume appreciation: 1/∞

costume design by René Hubert

Period dramas | costume appreciation: 29/∞

Ingrid Bergman as Anna Koreff

[promptcalender]

Piece of advice to all writers who need a cover but don’t have the money to hire an artist: use the public domain.

Online, you can find quite a lot databases for photography in the public domain that you could use (always check their specific rules regarding commercial use), like Pixabay, Unsplash, or Pexels.

But, even a tad more charming, there are also hundreds of thousands of paintings in the public domain. If the artist has been dead for over 70 years, the image is (typically) in the public domain and can be used however you want it. This is not a new concept, big publishers like Penguin and the Oxford’s World Classics do the same!

When you use such images, always make sure that 1. the painting really is in the public domain (sometimes the art itself may be in the public domain, but the photograph you are using to see it is not!), and 2. that it is an appropriate image. Sometimes, an image may look innocent and fitting, but would actually cause irritation, like accidentally using a painting of siblings for a romance or using a controversial image for different reasons.

Some places you can find art in the public domain (always double check!): National Gallery of Art, Artvee, Public Domain Image Archive, and most websites of bigger museums.

[Prompt Calender: April 23rd, World Book and Copyright Day]

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Your cover will look so much more professional and interesting if you use public domain imagery rather than AI.

Your hard work deserves thoughtful presentation.

[furryprovocateur]

[noirferatu]

ГАМЛЕТ — 1964.

[lamignonette]

[aramistinguette]

Joyeux anniversaire Robespierre!

idk which version I like the most so I'm posting both 🦆

[winterhalters]

Today in history, on May 5th, 1826, two-hundred years ago, Eugénie de Montijo, daughter of Cipriano de Palafox y Portocarrero and María Manuela Kirkpatrick de Closeburn y Grivegnée, later Empress Consort of the French, was born. Her life would be inextricably linked to the destiny of France and the Bonaparte family, from being raised in the cult of Napoléon Bonaparte as a child, to the 'summits of splendor, sorrow and catastrophe' of marrying Emperor Napoléon III. Despite the fall of the Empire and the subsequent and devastating loss of her husband and only son, she remained a carefree, quick-witted spirit, devoted to the cause of the Imperial House and an unsuspected ally of the French Republic in dire times of need.

[winterhalters]

history things  ♦ Mme de Pompadour

[harritudur]

YOUNG BAELOR (20) and YOUNG MAEKAR (16)

fancast: Josh Heuston, Anton Rogachev

[coeurdelhistoire]

When People Ask How My Research is Going:

In the History Department:

[ilinit]

@cookieloveranddaydreamer

[cookieloveranddaydreamer]

@ilinit 😂😂😂 Dead men tale no tales. But their remnants a lot.

[lasmarginatura-archive]

WHERE IS SHE? NOT THERE —

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë // The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante

[percyfraser]

ROMAN HOLIDAY 1953 — dir. William Wyler

[kosmogrl]

april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good april will be good

[anyataylorjoy]

Sanditon (2019-23) // Sorrow is Not My Name, Ross Gay // Becoming Jane (2007) // Spring, Claude Monet // The Young Victoria (2009) // Easter, Emily Pauline Johnson // Colette (2018) // The Sounds of Spring, Franz von Stuck // Jane Eyre (2011) // What Persists, Lisel Mueller // The Duchess (2008) // Tenebrous, Georgia Rebecca // Ophelia (2018) // Almond Blossoms, Vincent van Gogh // Sonnet III, Edna St. Vincent Millay // The Favourite (2018) // From the Desire Field, Natalie Diaz // Emma (2020) // Far From the Madding Crowd (2015) // [in Just-], E. E. Cummings // The Swing, Jean-Honoré Fragonard // Becoming Jane (2007) // Twelve Moons, Mary Oliver