Like Autumn leaves

"The brain may devise laws for the blood but a hot tempor leaps o'er a cold decree, such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the cripple" ×The Merchant Of Venice×

[saintlysinnerss]

“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”

“and all i loved, i loved alone.”

Edgar Allan Poe

[pmamtraveller]

Women reading in art.

[simena]

Sir Thomas Lawrence (detail)

[heaveninawildflower]

Cock Pheasant (1916). Designed by John Henry Dearle (Workshop of William Morris). Maufactured by Morris & Co.

Tapestry (1916). Wool and silk on cotton warp.

Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0.

[malsottile]

Romantic Ruins in Evòra

(My photo, please do not remove the tag)

[ddestroyangels]

Lucretia (c.1580-1583) by Paolo Veronese

Museum of Art History, Vienna

[7pleiades7]

Jeune femme aux roses (Young Woman with Roses), (detail), by Étienne Adolphe Piot (French, 1831 – 1910)

[dailyclassicart]

Eglon van der Neer - "Judith (detail)" (c.1678)

[classic-art-favourites]

The Virgin Reading by Vittore Carpaccio, 1505-1510.

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[dalals]

"Dolce Far Niente" by John William Godward.

[spirit-of-art]

Roman Kramsztyk, Dama z wiewiórką, c.1936

[classic-art-favourites]

Peonies by Kateryna Bilokur, 1948.

[simena]

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (detail)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ James Sant, Portrait of the 17th Countess of Rothes (detail)

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[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Gustave Léonard De Jonghe, In Front of the Mirror (detail)

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[history-of-fashion]

1888 Diogene Ulysse Napoleon Maillart - Before the ball

(Private collection)

[detailsofpaintings]

Workshop of Rubens, Anne d’Autriche, reine de France (detail)

c. 1625