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“Not everything is fleeting. Some feelings are deep. The fact it isn’t close to me, that I can understand. But I find it sad it isn’t close to you.”

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2020) | dir. Céline Sciamma

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Constanze Saemann and Charlotte Foubert photographed by Ryan Brabazon for Basium.

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aesthetic wallpapers

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pastel painting details

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John William Godward (British, 1861–1922) – Mischief and Repose

Jean Alphonse Roehn (French, 1799–1864) – Le réveil

François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) – Le Repos des Nymphes

Leonard Raven–Hill (British, 1867–1942) – The Serenade

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Almond Blossoms and Beyond; “I Do Not Know The Stranger,”

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crashing waves

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Summer on the Beach by Paul Fischer

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David Hettinger

Was a Long Day

Summer Sunday

Summer Yellows

He Loves Me

Summers along the river

Reading and Texting

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FALLING · Harry Styles x RENAISSANCE ART

Salvation, the penalties of sin and redemption were emphasized in many frescoes, remarkable for their grim depictions of suffering. Devotional paintings were starkly simple, and intense in mood as the artist sought to make spiritual revelations a visual reality. Later, International Gothic was marked by a formalized sweetness, grace in the figures, and gracefulness in the draperies. The High Renaissance of painting was the culmination of the varied means of expression, the realistic depiction of both physical and psychological features, and the manipulation of light and darkness. (x)