Gem De Lovely

I collect history (jokes), oddities, and art. Sometimes I call myself an artist.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Paradise Lost: Satan in Council (1866/steel engraving) - Gustave Doré

[everydaylouie]

bull in a china shop

[knifeofvenus]

Piskies Leading The Serpent Dance X, Daisy Rickman

[sab3rtooth]

patterns left by woodworms on driftwood

[normal-horoscopes]

God I fucking love being a monk at the Monastery of Lindisfarne on this fine morning of June 8th, 793. I love looking at all the gold and silver objects and alive monks that live here.

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[erratic-dragon-fruit]

out of the tags with you

[389]

Isle of the Dead Arnold Böcklin

[maureen2musings]

King Arthur at Tintagel

uniquedevontours

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[s1ck0]

Sun Pei-Mao, “Noisy Dreamland” 2014

[redlipstickresurrected]

Adam Hall aka Adam Thomas Hall (American, b. 1981, Wheeling, WV, based Franklin, TN, USA) - Nocturnal Glow, 2024, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[bobbole]

French Art Deco table lamp designed by Eugène Gaillard and manufactured by Max Le Verrier, circa 1920s.

[naldibutnice]

The Dolly Sisters by Foulsham & Banfield, c. 1922

[enchantedbook]

'The Milky Way' by Frida Hansen, 1898

[pmamtraveller]

Bat vase by Richard Freiwald

[my-russia]

First computer animated cat ever - “Koshechka” (”A kitty”), 1968

[firagasoap]

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

[ma-gpie]