post tenebras spero lucem

finnish | xxiii | they/them | fëanor did nothing wrong

[gemville]

Turquoise and Diamond Parure, Late 19th Century

[ancientcharm]

House of Trebius Valens, Pompeii. This house, with its atrium and peristyle, is considered the typical model of a Roman domus from the Republican era.

[diederickvanderlee]

Daniel Chester French - Immortal Love (The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Man That They were Fair) - 1923

[galleryofart]

The Letter

Artist: Jerry Barrett (British, 1814-1906)

Date: 1854

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, United States

[fibul]

there's no temptress quite as irresistible as the mid afternoon sleepies

[venustapolis]

Pink Ribbons (Alexei Harlamoff, 1840 - 1925)

[flipchild]

christ my blog is insufferable

[pmamtraveller]

Hercules Defeats The Hydra, by Guido Philipp (1896)

[the1920sinpictures]

1927 c. Silk summer afternoon frock with attached jabot and decorative buttons. From Rachel Ruegg, Pinterest.

[lilstinky]

its cool how every language has wordplay.... we created language like ok step 1) convey info so we can stay alive 2) get silly with it

[theinternetarchive]

etching and drypoint illustrations by anders zorn, swedish c. 1910s.

[portalibis]

The Fortune from the manuscript Chansonnier cordiforme de Montchenu, Recueil de chansons italiennes et françaises, c. 1470–1480

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[portrait-paintings]

Mrs Elizabeth Birch and her Daughter

Artist: Joseph Highmore (British, 1692-1780)

Date: 1740's

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom

[gorskivijenac]

Portrait of Mabel Grujić dressed in a Serbian traditional costume, 1912. House of Jevrem Grujić

[eirene]

Dutch Lady with Tulips (or Portrait of Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands) Paul Berthon

[peaceinthestorm]

Lily Wrangel (1861-1948, Swedish) ~ Ragnhild Juel, 1892

[Source: nasjonalmuseet.no]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Jewish women from Salonica, modern-day Thessaloniki, Greece

French vintage postcard