sapnavau

Admirer. Lover of light. Avid reader. The scent of vetiver and music of Chopin.

[flowerytale]

“For I’m To Be Queen of the May, Mother” or “The Maypole”, from Andrea Zanatelli’s embroidery series

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

Valentines Day Snowstorm in Boston, taken on February 14, 1940

[watercube-deactivated20130811]

[vervediary-deactivated20190518]

Frida Kahlo Writes a Personal Letter to Georgia O’Keeffe After O’Keeffe’s Nervous Breakdown.

[pagewoman]

Peter Rabbit : Bunnies in The Snow Beatrix Potter

[lovefrenchisbetter]

Photographed by @wkaseke

[nobrashfestivity]

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Zodiac Paintings. early 1900s

[fragrantblossoms]

Eliot Porter. Luna Moth, Silver Lake, New Hampshire, June 3, 1953.

[centuriespast]

MINIATURIST, French Guillaume de Machaut: Poetical Works 1350-55 Manuscript (Ms. français 1586), 300 x 210 mm (folio size) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

[yama-bato]

"The most famous miniature in this manuscript is the "Mysterious Garden" on folio 103r, illustrating the poem Dit du Lion.Despite the stylised background decorated with golden arabesques, this cheerful nature scene is regarded as one of the oldest real landscape studies in the history of European art."( via )

[fragrantblossoms]

Deer, birds and flowering trees, India, Mughal, probably Fatehpur Sikri, circa 1570. Gouache on cloth.

[fusdoq]

Gabbeh designs, Zollanvari carpets

[thesevibesseemfine-deactivated2]

[scavengedluxury]

Rimetea, Transylvania, 1986. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[metamorphesque]

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[ghostspouse]

[psikonauti]

Steve McCurry (American,b.1950)

Woman Enters Medieval Rock-Hewn Church, Ethiopia, 2016

[sweetmans]

sketchbook, fall 2016