AMOR VINCIT OMNIA

I burn, I pine, I perish

[metamorphesque]

Vincent van Gogh | Pine Trees with Figure in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital

[nobrashfestivity]

Robert Fludd,  Utriusque Cosmi, 1619

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[fripperiesandfobs]

Town dress with chemisette owned by Empress Josephine, First Empire

From the Chateau de Malmaision Costume Collection app:

“This high-waisted dress with its square, low-cut neckline and decorated with white embroidered flowers and leaves is typical of the fashion at the start of the First Empire. To conceal the low neckline, it could be worn with a chemisette which was slipped inside the dress. This one is in white muslin, embroidered with a sprinkling of flowers and embellished with a ruché trim. This outfit comes from the family of Madame Poyard who looked after the Empress’s wardrobe after 1809.”

[dream-and-delirium]

Ernest Lefébure. ‘Embroidery and Lace: Their Manufacture and History from the Remotest Antiquity to the Present Day.’ London: Grevel, 1888.

Cover art by May Morris.

[lostandfoundinprague-deactivate]

Winter Prague Castle by Master J.Sudek

[contremineur]

Roman head of a ram (marble, c. 1st century BC to 1st century AD)

from here

[bebs-art-gallery]

Golden Touch by Clayshaper

— inspired by Hugues Merle’s Mary Magdalene in the Cave (1868)

[eatingbreadandhoney]

Judith I by Gustav Klimt 1901.

[hildegardavon]

Pio Fedi, 1815-1892

Cleopatra, n/d, (signed: PIO. FEDI. FIO.-O / SCOLPIVA.), white marble, on a red granite base, marble, 84x117 cm

Private Collection

[memories-of-ancients]

Silver ring with carnelian intaglio depicting a chariot, the intaglio is 2nd century Roman, the ring itself is 9th-10th century Byzantine.

from The Walters Art Museum

[hildegardavon]

Nathaniel Sichel, 1843-1907

Judith, n/d, oil on canvas, 180x111 cm

Private Collection

[memories-of-ancients]

Rhyton in the shape of a dog's head, Greece, circa 480 BC

from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Emil Renker

Zwei Menschen, circa 1912

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

[memories-of-ancients]

Mourning ring inscribed "FOELIX CONCORDIA FRATRUM", England, 17th century

from The British Museum

[via-appia]

The Graces Crowning Venus, late 19th century

Antonio Frilli, after a design by Antonio Canova

[flowerytale]

Nikos Engonopoulos, from Bolívar, a Greek Poem