My Wings Belong to Vladimir

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Nimbus by Berndnaut Smilde #Allarteverything

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Embroidered book cover, 1630’s

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Ferdinand Gebhardt - Stretched Swan, 1911

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High Table at Magdalen College, Oxford

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Perseus Slaying the Medusa, n.d. ~ Attributed to Henry Fuseli…

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The Artist’s Studio, Benjamin Champney

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Fig. 9. Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation : an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts. 1887.

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Michael Taylor

Interior Reflections

oil on canvas - 1973

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Karl Brullov - The Last Day of Pompeii

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Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire, England by icypics

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Nabokov’s drawing of ‘Eugenia onegini,’ named for Aleksandr Pushkin’s novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, which Nabokov translated. The illustration appeared on the endpaper of ‘Conclusive Evidence,’ Nabokov’s autobiography. 

 (via The Paradox of Intellectual Promiscuity: Stephen Jay Gould on What Nabokov’s Butterfly Studies Reveal About the Unity of Creativity | Brain Pickings)

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The Window; or The Loves of the Wrens…Lyrics by Alfred(Lord)Tennyson/music by Arthur Sullivan 1871

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Amie du peintre Ernest Hébert , posant dans le jardin de la Villa Médicis, près d'une statue, avec vue sur le parc Borghèse, vers 1890 .

Photo: Hébert d’Uckermann, Gabrielle .

© Conseil général de l'Isère

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Antoine Watteau, Embarkation for Cythera, detail

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Corset