Late is better than never.

[youreso2000andl8]

I wore diamonds for the birth of your baby, for the birth of your son

[classicalcanvas]

Title: In the library

Artist: Auguste Toulmouche

Date: 1872

Style: Academicism

Genre: Genre Painting

[nataliakoptseva]

Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn - Artemis, detail

[english-idylls]

Detail of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Caravaggio (1598-99). 

[twirld]

Jane Seymour (details, 1536) Hans Holbein the Younger

[notyour-babyy]

We argue in the kitchen, about whether to have children. About the world ending and the scale of my ambition, and how much is art really worth?

[queenmoriarty]

My head in the rainclouds,

my heart in the sky

~ Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

[mountain-spirits-deactivated202]

versailles

[nostalgicacademia]

Details of hands in paintings

Ps: I’m doing a survey on Dark Academia for a university project, if you like DA, I’d be happy to have you do it: https://forms.gle/bhFRX9ivTs9BXXdj8

[levrathan]

King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler (detail) c. 1903

[lilithsorchid]

we had been late for coffee

[mirrors-and-candles]

[theimagerie]

JOHN TOWNER, Paris, France

[anarchy-of-thought]

[witching-by-the-willow]

the feminine urge to collect daggers

[mirrors-and-candles]

[klassizismus]

Details: Portrait of a Lady, 1560, by Jacopo Zucchi (Italian, 1542–1596)