even death may die

darkling i listen;

[walzerjahrhundert]

Sir Frank Bernard Dicksee

Study of armour for the painting ‘The Two Crowns' 

ca. 1900

[deathandsensuality-archive-deac]

FASHION + RELIGION

Eugenio Andrade Schulz / Alexander McQueen, American Express Black Show 2004 / Vogue Hong Kong, March 2022 / Mirror Palais, Spring/Summer 2023 / Guo Pei, Spring 2017 / Alexander McQueen, Fall 1996 / Christian Dior, Fall 2000 / Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1997-8 / Versace, Fall/Winter 1997.

[cosmonautroger]

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857

[bloodstainedblouse]

dionysus locket, circa 1880. the back is engraved with an anchor, a symbol of hope and faith in the victorian era.

[bebemoon]

the immaculate heart of mother mary, silver and jeweled .

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Carl Frithjof Smith (Norwegian, 1859-1917) After First Communion, Detail, 1892

[tombsaint]

on death with 1. lilies abounded, @petfurniture, twitter; 2. frances molina, “o’death”

[soracities]

Garden of Death, Hugo Simberg

[atlinmerrick]

“I hope I can hear the laughter from the next room”

The most beautiful thing I’ll read today.

[english-idylls]

From Homer’s Odyssey.

[desimonewayland]

Wings (fragments from adoration of the Christ-child)

Dutch, ca. 1850 - ca. 1900

Rijksmuseum

[deathandmysticism]

Zoroastrian tower to dispose of the dead, where corpses are eaten by vultures, Wellcome Collection

[best-life-wisdom]

[enchantedbook]

Fairy Queen on a Bat by Amelia Jane Murray

[aqua-regia009]

A satire on the criticism of Witkiewicz, 1890. — Wojciech Piechowski (1849-1911)

[simena]

Boldini Giovanni (detail)

[nemfrog]

Plate 30. Hand bandages. Précis iconographique de bandages, pansements et appereils. 1854. 

Wellcome Library

[theballetblog]

Shanghai Ballet Company in Jane Eyre

[the-evil-clergyman]

Walpurgis Night, from Goethe’s Faust by Alexander Liezen Mayer (1877)