ANYTHING ELSE

"I learned that love tastes good you shoved it in my mouth"

[artist-waterhouse]

Maidens picking Flowers by a Stream, 1911, John William Waterhouse

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-william-waterhouse/maidens-picking-flowers-by-a-stream

[bibliotheque-la-nature]

Natural History Museum, London

[theladyvampira]

Gothic Victorian costume.

[artemisia-gentileschi-art]

Susanna and the Elders, 1610, Artemisia Gentileschi

[artemisia-gentileschi-art]

Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1639, Artemisia Gentileschi

Medium: oil,canvas

[drk-academia]

I want to run down dark halls with a pile of books pressed to my chest, most in greek, to reach the library where i’ll meet with my best friend to discuss literature and art and poetry

[redthepear]

I will dress like a gay classics professor from the 1920s or I will die trying

[carrionkid]

like. objectively. living in that time period would SUCK but victorian stuff is so, so, sexy. i want to be sent off to boarding school because i’m too rowdy in an attempt to make me stop embarrassing my family only to enter into a tempestuous love affair with my roommate before drowning in the grounds lake.

[1ightly]

bro shut the fuck up im analyzing homoerotic subtext

[merle-casts-zone-of-truth]

Wilde we know you’re gay but please

[trinitysbooks]

I am full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry. 

- Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro

(not my pictures)

[terranlifeform]

[artist-waterhouse]

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, 1891, John William Waterhouse

Medium: oil,canvas

[artist-bazille]

Portrait of Edmond Maitre, 1869, Frederic Bazille

[artist-rembrandt]

A woman making water, 1631, Rembrandt

https://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt/a-woman-making-water-1631

[artist-rembrandt]

Christ preaching, 1652, Rembrandt

[artist-bouguereau]

Self-Portrait Presented To M. Sage, 1886, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Medium: oil,canvas