a dynasty of deposed princesses

Ari • old • 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 • doll collector

[queenannedoll]

[catullus101]

St Wendreda is a 14th-century church famous for its “angel roof”, featuring 120 carved figures of martyrs, apostles, saints, and angels. The ornaments were created either at the end of the 15th century or in the first quarter of the 16th century.

March, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire

[larval-tear]

me (decorated in bloody runes): man why did we ever stop worshipping golden idols this shit rules

severed bull’s head i carry with me for advice: if you mix sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter together you will become a powerful sorcerer

[banquethall]

Eiko Ishioka

[derangedrhythms]

What large eyes the dead have! 

Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems; from ‘Poem for a Birthday’

[allthingseurope]

Gravetye Manor, England (by David)

[derangedrhythms]

so I wandered devouring darkness 

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

[permease23]

Karl Sisson, 'Eyes'.

[psikonauti]

Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi (Japanese,contemporary)

Calling the stars, 2022

[derangedrhythms]

What people didn’t know about this girl was that the ancestral dead kept her company—they came to find her at bathtime and sat four at a time in the bathwater with her, cooing wistfully and using their wasted, insubstantial hands to wash her hair. 

Helen Oyeyemi, from ‘Mr. Fox’

[asundayporch]

[allthingseurope]

Italy 

[zegalba]

Memento Mori Gold Skeleton Casket Pendant, Made in France, 16th century

[themakeupbrush]

Stella Lunardy

[catonhottinroof-deactivated2023]

Maximilián Kurth (1869 – 1962) 

Edge of the forest, 1914

[frachella]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cntcpilostg/

[imintheleaves]

[relightthestars]

Venice (Italy)