[smsomah]

Scanned from the book The Craft Heritage of Oman; 2003; Neil Richardson & Marcia Dorr

[uncleclaudius]

The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon. Pliny the Elder: Natural History

Elephants in Roman art

[nobrashfestivity]

Tanaka Ryohei, A Room in Summer

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[urgetocreate]

Alice Dalton Brown (American b.1939), Summer Breeze, 1995, Oil on linen, 50 in. x 70.25 in

[xphaiea]

Simeon Solomon

[pmamtraveller]

Cupid and Psyche at the Fountain of Eternal Youth

by Frank O. Salisbury

[centuriespast]

Edmund Dulac The Birth of Eve

RISD Museum

[rosieandthemoon]

By Alan Parry

[yan-wo]

National Geographic, November 1989. Kyoto's Saihoji garden

[ancientartarcheology]

Herculaneum, casa del salone nero

[tridentandtales]

Greek three-part mirror

4th century BCE

MK&G collection 2007.372.a-c

[enchantedbook]

"Muse of the Fountain", Alphonse Osbert, 1907.

[philosophybits]

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

— Oscar Wilde, attributed in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman ed.

[7pleiades7]

Nymphs Listening to the Songs of Orpheus (1853) by Charles François Jalabert (French, 1818 – 1901), signed and dated (lower left): ‘ch. Jalabert 1853’, oil on canvas, 44 x 36 1/8 in. (111.8 x 91.8 cm), Walters Art Museum

[simena]

[stowaway-girl]

[venusimleder]

W, March 2001.

Ph. Carter Smith