Pale As Marble

Virgo sun/Virgo moon/Gemini Ascending/Aquarius Midheaven

[historicl]

Gustave Jacquet (detail)

[funeral-wreath]

From York Minster, 04/11/14 (own photographs)

[hildegardavon]

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, 1830-1908

Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, ca.1852/62, marble (Inscribed on the back: "HARRIET HOSMER / FECIT ROMAE"), 86.4×57.2×31.8 cm

The Art Institute of Chicago, Inv. 1993.260

[mostlyitaly]

Duomo di Milano (Lombardia, Italy) by 

giwrgos livydikos

[lost-in-centuries-long-gone]

Sherborne chancel arch and vault by Lawrence OP on Flickr.

[oldpaintings]

Nils Hans Christiansen (Danish, 1850--1922)

[marmore-hills]

The Reading Girl (La Leggitrice) - Pietro Magni

[unexplained-events]

The Sleeping Goddess in The Lost Gardens of Heligan in England.

[sillywuv-deactivated20230214]

[unexplained-events]

In the 1976 adaptation of Carrie, Brian De Palma based Carrie’s posture and walk at the end of the film after Gustave Moreau’s 1851 painting The Study of Lady Macbeth.

[percyjackosn-archive]

books read in 2020 → the starless sea by erin morgenstern 

devotion is for acolytes. worthiness for guardians. keepers must have spirit and keep it aloft. they are made keepers because they understand why we are here. why it matters. because they understand the stories.

[livesunique]

Salón de Baile, 

Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, XVII Marquis of Cerralbo Palacio, Madrid

[bellisvintage]

[nubbsgalore]

flamingos flying over tanzania’s lake natron, a salt lake which is home to three quarters of the world’s three million lesser flamingos, as well as toxic multicoloured extremophile cyanobacteria that thrive in water so hypersaline it would strip away human skin. for the flamingos, however, the tough skin and scales on their legs prevents burning, leaving them uniquely free to drink from the near boiling freshwater found from springs and geysers at the lake’s edges.  (x, x, x, x, x)

[600pxl]

[baby-latte]

no offense but

[visvya]