[vintagehomecollection]

Stencilling - A Design and Source Book, 1987

[random-brushstrokes]

Leda Kontogiannopoulou (Greek, b. 1971)

[cuties-in-codices]

botanical illustrations (aloe, dill, black henbane, rose, apium, mandrake, water lily, meadow sage)

from a manuscript of johann hartlieb’s kräuterbuch (book of herbs), a treatise dealing with the medicinal uses of various plants. this copy was created in northern bavaria, c. 1462

source: Berlin, SBB, Ms. germ. qu. 2021

[centuriespast]

Yi Am Korean, 1499-after 1545 Puppy with Feather Philadelphia Museum of Art

[rosieandthemoon]

Houghton-in-the-Dale, St. Giles’ Parish

[metmuseum]

Doorway. 15th century. Credit line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1935 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471176

[liefst]

birthday gift for my sister – a bag in which she can store her bath bombs. inspired by @florad0ra 🐟

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Wedding rings from the Byzantine era

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Royal funeral rites from medieval manuscripts

[playburo]

Julia Fernandez

[04k96]

[rosieandthemoon]

"The Solar" at Great Dixter House in Northiam, UK

[anderwater]

If we're gonna invite people in our home, we are gonna look like a fucking family.

[publicdomainreview]

Detail from the ceiling of the Arena Chapel, in Padua, magnificently adorned with Giotto frescoes in ca. 1305.

One of the many beautiful images featured in our essay “Primary Sources: A Natural History of the Artist’s Palette” by @philipcball — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/primary-sources

[niurd]

instagram.com/p/DW_vBcSFCbT/

[wavingtovirginia]

Virginia Woolf’s bedroom  

[the1920sinpictures]

1930 A Swedish girl and her teddy bear visit a Rune stone. It states "Sibbe and Tjarve had the stone raised in memory of Torkel, their father". From Awesome Attic, FB.