Aesthetic Photos + Sources

Mostly doing this so I don't have to take up storage space. If I don't have a source/my source is wrong please tell me. I identify plants, paintings, architecture, and more.

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INTRODUCTION

Hi, I'm doom. For my main blog, go to @autisticdoomslayer.

I find aesthetic photos of all types and I identify the building, type of plant, type of animal, painting, artist, etc. etc. I also talk about the style of art or architecture & where and when its from, or the specific species of plant or animal if I can find it.

While most animals and plants are classified taxonomically, a few aren't, so that the average person doesn't have to go down a taxonomic rabbit hole to differentiate between true foxes (Vulpes) and "false" South American foxes.

However some things (mainly flowers) ARE classified taxonomically. If you're confused you can go here**. If you cannot access this document or live in a country that doesn't allow google docs, feel free to contact me and I'll figure something out.

DO NOT ask me to taxonomically sort anything that lives in the ocean it's basically impossible.

If you see something wrong with my identification, PLEASE tell me.

Feel free to submit photos for identification in my asks.

For my constantly updating list of tags, check out my masterlist (please forgive the bland ass layout, my HTML is shit). The layout is still a WIP. I have no fucking idea how it shows up on mobile guys I'm sorry 😭

For sources on symbolism, check out this google doc. If you're in a country that cannot access google docs, feel free to message me.

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De Krijtberg

Tumblr really tanked the quality of some of these, sorry.

De Krijtberg Kirk (Church of St. Francis Xavier) by Wilhelm Victor Alfred Tepe. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1881-1883.

Neo-gothic.

It's such a big and beautiful church, I'll probably do another post on it's façade.

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Palacio de Cristal del Retiro

Palacio de Cristal del Retiro by Ricardo Veláquez Bosco. Madrid, Spain. 1887.

Multiple architectural styles, including neo-renaissance and neoclassical.

Tagged "Victorian" because it was based on London's Crystal Palace.

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Peggy V. Helmerich Great Reading Room, Bizzell Memorial Library, University of Oklahoma. 1890.

Gothic Revival.

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Great Library, Osgoode Hall, by John Ewart and William Warren Baldwin. Toronto, Canada. 1829-1832.

Neoclassical.

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Barbican Gate, Tollymore Forest Park, Northern Ireland. 1780.

Gothic.

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Flatow Tower, in Park Babelsburg by Johann Heinrich Strack for Kaiser Wilhelm I. Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany. 1853-1856.

Neogothic.

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Rocamadour, France. Inhabited since prehistory. Christian activity in the area has been documented since the 1000s.

Medieval, Romanesque, some Gothic.

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Ala'i Darwaza, Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque. Built on the remains of a destroyed Hindu temple by Sultan Alauddin Khalji. Qutb Minar complex, Mehrauli, Delhi, India. 1311.

Indo-Islamic Architecture.

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Prague Castle. Prague, Czech Republic. Construction began in 870; was continuously rebuilt and added onto until the late 1800s. Gothic, Renaissance,

2nd & 3rd photo are of St. Vitus Cathedral, a Cathedral in the castle. Construction began 1344, but was only completed in 1929. Gothic architectural style.

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State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia. Established in 1764 by Catherine the Great.

Different architectural styles, most notably Baroque and Neoclassical.

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Notre Dame de Strasbourg, France.

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Completed 1439. Romanesque & Rayonnant Gothic.

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Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. Odessa, Ukraine. Opened 1887.

Neo-baroque façade, and Rococo audience hall.

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Tribuna of the Uffizi, Uffizi Gallery, by Bernardo Buontalenti for Francesco I de' Medici. Florence, Italy. 1584.

Renaissance. The room is octagonal, because in Christian numerology, eight is the number of heaven.

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Feldblumen by Conrad Kiesel. German. 1895 or before.

Conrad Kiesel didn't fit cleanly into any artistic movements of the time, but he was closest to Aestheticism.

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Top left: Swallowtail butterflies, probably either Old World swallowtails (Papilio machaon) or Eastern Tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus). They're flying next to violets, possibly American Dog Violets (Viola labradorica) or Wood Violets (Viola odorata).

Top Middle: A painting of a blue iris. Facebook says it's by Igor Levashov, who paints flowers. Walmart sells this painting and says it's by someone named Patrycja Skorupska, who I can't find anything about.

Top Right: A rose that has been recolored to a point where I can't identify it. Probably a hybrid tea rose.

Second Row Left: Rosa 'Just Joey'. A hybrid tea rose cultivar.

Second Row Middle: Possibly Rosa 'Chrysler Imperial' or Rosa 'Ingrid Berman'. Also hybrid tea roses.

Second Row Right: Also probably a hybrid tea rose, but it's been dyed so I can't identify it. Roses are hard.

Third Row Left: Japanese Camillia (Camillia japonica). Single Guilio Nuccio cultivar.

Third Row Middle: Definitely Deutzia. But I can't find any deutzia in that color. I think it's Slender Deutzia (Deutzia gracilis). They're white flowers, and I think the picture was recolored or the flowers were dyed.

Third Row Right: Those look like Single Late Tulips. There are multiple different cultivars coming out of the same plant, so I think they're either fake flowers or dyed.

Fourth Row Left: Japanese Camillia (Camillia japonica). Tricolor cultivar.

Fourth Row Middle: Those look like Daylilies (Hemerocallis). They're not actualy lilies but I'll tag them like they are. It might be an Angel Gown cultivar.

Fifth Row Left: Pink flowers are Garden Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) 'Gloria' cultivar. Yellow flowers might be black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta).

Fifth Row Middle: African Daisy (Osteospermum). It's either recolored or dyed, so I can't tell the cultivar.

Fifth Row Right: Dutch Yellow Crucus (Crocus flavus).

Last Row Left: Some kind of Grandiflora rose. The white flowers come from a different plant that I can't identify.

Last Row Middle: Single late tulips (possibly of the French variety) or Darwin hybrids. Modern tulip cultivars used in bouquets are complex and difficult to identify, but it might be Tulipa 'Capri'.

Last Row Right: possibly Paperwhites/Bunch-Flowered Narcissus (Narcissus tazetta) or Cemetery Ladies (Narcissus x medioluteus).

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This is a male Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae)! It is native to the Southwestern US & Northwestern Mexico. Unfortunately, I can't figure out what flowers are behind him.

Hummingbirds symbolize joy, healing, good luck, agility, resilience, and beauty. In Mexican & Nahua culture, it can symbolize strength as well. The Aztecs associated hummingbirds with strength and vitality, and they became a symbol of the sun and war god Huitzilopochtli.