𝕷𝖚𝖝 𝖊𝖙 𝕺𝖇𝖘𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖚𝖒

A blog at the juxtaposition of antiquity, luxury, art history and academia, and the occult. For my photos, search the phrase “MIGNONNE” or visit my main blog @iridessence DNI is available there as well.

[iridessence]

just another beautiful detail in Montmartre.

[dame-de-pique]

omgeving van Adolphe Burdet - Detail van een tak met rode knoppen, 1907-1930

[frostedmagnolias]

Silk Bodice

c. 1890

Grand Rapids Public Museum

[dame-de-pique]

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Imprint: Edinburgh: Printed by R. Watkins, 1744-46

[luxus-aeterna]

oh, to be a ghost roaming those halls… || IG

[uptownlowdown]

9 months later and i finally finished designing my bougie outer worlds captain, cosette haile 🪐

no gif this time, a lot of detail would get lost unfortunately 💔 you can read her short bio here!

inventory list: verity and etiquette: her modified joch pistol and officer’s spine, purpleberry wine, white gloves with love & hate stitched onto the knuckles, knock you out bar, purpleberry bunch, and tile cosmic smokes 💜

[rosieandthemoon]

Oak Grove Cemetery in Americus, Georgia

[oil-eclipse]

Diprosopus, Theda Desmond

Part of the Portraits Of Perversions series

[rosieandthemoon]

Fonthill Castle

[luxus-aeterna]

at the bar of the Degas House

[04k96]

[art-history-nerds]

A young woman at her toilet (1633) by Rembrandt

[rosieandthemoon]

Fonthill Castle

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"O ends of autumns, winters, springtimes deep in mud, Seasons of drowsiness, — my love and gratitude I give you, that have wrapped with mist my heart and brain As with a shroud, and shut them in a tomb of rain."

~ Charles Baudelaire, "Mists and Rains" from The Flowers of Evil (transl. George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

[whoresomewhining]

[fat-models]

/luzxelaju

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

c. 1930

Metallic thread mesh over silk chiffon, embroidered with beads

"This evening dress, formerly belonging to Princess Alice of Athlone, the last surviving grand-daughter of Queen Victoria."

The John Bright Collection