Mario Penit

-Ars Melancholiae- "On earth is known to none The smile that is not sister to a tear " -Ebenezer Elliott

[vivelareine]

A promotional still of Anita Louise as the princesse de Lamballe in Marie Antoinette (1938). [credit: dreampinups/ebay]

[yama-bato]

Helena Georgiou

[dozydawn]

petrified wood

[tridentandtales]

Egyptian mold for a Heron (a bird associated with the sun, the annual flooding of the Nile, and the afterlife)

2nd - 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic period)

Walters Art Museum 22.284

[eirene]

Dusk (Crépuscule), ca. 1897 Paul Balluriau

[clawmarks]

Selinum Palustre - Mary Delany - 1775 - via The British Museum

[florial]

Mariahangelidaki (via IG) in Biarritz, France

[archiveofcanvas]

Tombes (vers 1919) de Bernard Boutet de Monvel au musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans

[criatvra]

Returning

[eirene]

Impéria, ca. 1899 Alfred-Pierre Agache

[fishstickmonkey]

Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, 1966

William Gedney

Duke University Libraries Digital Collections

[smsomah]

Guatemala, 1989. Flor Garduño

[nobrashfestivity]

David Inshaw, Oak Tree, Bonfire, Moon And Firework

[ceramicfigs]

sketch for the judgement, charcoal on paper, john singer sargent, c. 1903-1916

[dreamyvixen]

[muzantropic]

Istaravshan, Tajikistan

[henk-heijmans]

Old woman with dogs and cats, ca. 1910 - by Tom H. Stoward (1874 - 1941), Australian