καλοκαγαθία

narcissus | 26 | decadent socialite

[songesoleil]

Le rêve de Pierrot / Pierrot’s Dream. Oil on Canvas. 38 x 55.5 cm. (14.96 x 21.25 in.)

Art by Edouard Menta.(1858-1915).

[spirit-of-art]

Theodore Kaufmann (1814–1896), Lorelei, 1874

[cultofthedarksun]

Villa of Franz von Stuck

[ddestroyangels]

Tarrasque and Santa Marta by Charles Florent Joseph Lepec, 1874

[fromtheheather]

Young Girl at the Window (1640) - Jan Victors

[oldpaintings]

The Death of William the Conqueror, 1885 by Albert Maignan (French, 1845–1908)

[1five1two]

'The Light is Coming'. Michael Malm.

[velvetnightgallery]

Fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen by Charles Robinson

[fiery-kitty]

Rose and Thistle – Louis Ernest Lessieux (1898)

[velvetnightgallery]

Burg Scharfenberg bei Nacht (1827) by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme

[thesefevereddays]

The More Loving One

By W. H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well

That, for all they care, I can go to hell,

But on earth indifference is the least

We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am

Of stars that do not give a damn,

I cannot, now I see them, say

I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,

I should learn to look at an empty sky

And feel its total dark sublime

Though this might take me a little time.

September 1957

[julian-fawcett-mp]

John Singer Sargent, ‘Gassed’ and ‘Six Studies for Gassed’ (1918)

[robertwire]

In Gassed there is little suffering. Or rather, what suffering there is is outweighed by the painting’s compassion. In spite of the vomiting figure the scene has almost nothing in common with Owen’s vision of the gas victim whose blood comes ‘gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs’. What Sargent has depicted, instead, is the solace of the blind: the comfort of putting your trust in someone, of being safely led.

— geoff dyer, the missing of the somme

[7pleiades7]

L'Aurore et Céphale (Aurora and Cephalus) (1810) by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (French, 1774 – 1833), oil on canvas, 254.5 cm × 178 cm (100.2 in × 70 in), Musée du Louvre, Paris

[venustapolis]

Architectural Capriccio with a Monumental Arch (Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, 1695 - 1766)

[oldartss]

Francesca da Rimini by William Dyce (1837)

[cultofthedarksun]

Monument to Mozart by Hermann Hossaeus

[1five1two]

'Lorelei'. Theodore Kaufmann. 1874.