Les Curiosités de La Foire

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy

[magictransistor]

Artist Unknown. Dicing with Death. 1764.

[1five1two]

'System of Health'. Robert Fludd. 1631.

[theseconstantdreams]

Robert Fludd's Divine Monochord is the original string theory.

A single string running from Earth to Heaven, tuned by God into the harmonic proportions that hold creation together.

Utriusque Cosmi Historia (1617)

[celestial-cartography]

Moon depiction, from Description de l’Univers (1683) by Alain Manesson Mallet

[poboh]

DER ELFENWANDERER, Hugo Hoppener Fidus (1868 - 1947) - Oil on Canvas -

[stangutt]

Pierre Jahan, Matignon, 1950

[gyscafe]

Pierre Jahan / Photographie pour la maison de cristal Daum / 1956

[venustapolis]

Walkers on an Avenue (Hubert Robert, 1733 - 1808)

[callmemeursault]

Pierre Bonnard, Earthly Paradise, 1916-1920

[callmemeursault]

Henri Matisse, Woman before an Aquarium, 1921–23

[oldpaintings]

Perspective view of the dome area within the home and museum of John Soane at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, c.1813 by Joseph Michael Gandy (English, 1771--1843)

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

[oldpaintings]

The Stray Cat, c.1890 by William Edward Stott (English, 1855--1918)

[oldpaintings]

Drowned in the Sea, c.1830 by German painter

[oldpaintings]

Despair, 1905 by Marcel Roux (French, 1878–1922)

[fiery-kitty]

Music – Emile Fabry (1908)

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Jeanloup Sieff - Maudie James Wearing a Dress by Yves Saint Laurent (Vogue Italia 1972)