Sprezzatura

That crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore

[letheane-deactivated20200121]

…You are, I think, an evening star, of all the stars, the fairest…

Sappho, from ‘Fragments’ (via sempiternele)

[lavendergin]

[classicland-deactivated20170210]

The wartime selfie

[twostriptechnicolor]

(Argus Argoflex)

[letheane-deactivated20200121]

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Bram Stoker, from ‘Dracula’ (via sempiternele)

[kareynolds-deactivated20220120]

Source 

[andantegrazioso-deactivated2018]

French pink by Debi Coules

[cosmic-storm]

[theladyintweed]

Tamara Karsavina 

[intensefoodcravings]

Delicious Summer Blueberry Tart | Jernejkitchen

[vintagepales2-blog]

Augustusburg Palace, Grand Staircase

[safestbet]

[katiemcgrath]

x

[fawnvelveteen]

Herbert James Draper, Ballerina   

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Cinderella concept art by Mary Blair (x)

[boy-so-pale]

[thethinnestpaper-blog]

Lovy dear, my telegrams can’t be very warm, as they go through so many military hands — but you will read all my love and longing between the lines.

Empress Alexandra of Russia, to Tsar Nicholas II (Love Letters of Great Women, edited by Ursula Doyle)

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Three young women eat spaghetti on inflatable mattresses at Lake of Capri, 1939 (AP Photo / Hamilton Wright)