Blue aspic opera maniac

Opera, art, photography, fashion, dolls, pastel and black, illustrations and my life.

[enchantedbook]

“Fairies in a Bird’s Nest” (c. 1860), John Anster Fitzgerald

[funchinhonic]

papise. Aquirax Uno

[nitratediva]

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from Tex Avery’s “Little ‘Tinker” (1948)

[last-picture-show]

Herbert List, Grotesque Figure, Park of Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, Italy, 1952

[fleurdulys]

Water Nymph - Franz Bohumil Doubek

[serafino-finasero]

Miffy and Mondrian, from the book Nijntje in het Museum (Miffy at the Museum), 1997 | illustration Dick Bruna (Dutch, 1927–2017)

[ghoulnextdoor]

Floating Through the Experience: Rebecca Chaperon’s Dreaming Thresholds And Painted Portals - Unquiet Things

[xosiren]

Zendaya ♡ Spider-Man: Brand New Day Press Tour Details

[requiem-on-water]

“Black Cloud” for the exhibition “The Accursed Hour” by Carlos Amorales at Fondazione Adolfo Pini | Ph: (1&2) Andrea Rossetti (3) Alessandro Spadoni

[requiem-on-water]

“The Sorrows of Satan” (1926) film still | dir. by D. W. Griffith | A cinematic image immortalized through Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (1979) cover artwork.

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue June 1956

Primrose House Frosty Fragrance; Primrose House Woodland Lily

Model : Anita Ekberg

[talonabraxas]

The Swan Maidens by Walter Crane, 1894

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[aurumnorthwood]

Edmund Dulac: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s poems:

The Raven

To Helene

Alone

Lenore

To One in Paradise

Annabel Lee

[roseewaterr]

funny face, 1957 ♡

[enchantedbook]

“Fairies in a Bird’s Nest” (c. 1860), John Anster Fitzgerald

[conniesdqsblog]

sunlit cotton sheets

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Mermaids on the Rocks (19th century) by Wilhelm Kray (German, 1828 – 1889)