[firstfullmoon]

“on Venus, time passes slowly because / we are all preoccupied with love.”

— Marvin Bell, from “Here”

[ancientsstudies]

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

[oldpaintings]

The Earth with the Milky Way and Moon, 1918 by Władysław Theodor Benda (Polish, 1873–1948)

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John William Waterhouse 

The Lady of Shalott, details, left + right

[mademoisellelapiquante]

Robert-Jacques Lefèvre | Portrait of a Woman Holding a Pencil and a Drawing Book (detail) | c. 1808

[pre-raphaelisme]

A Reclining Female Figure by Edward Burne-Jones

[didoofcarthage]

Cupid with Psyche Extinguishing the Lamp and Vulcan Discovering Venus and Mars by François-Edouard Picot

French, 19th century

black ink and brown, gray, or black wash on brown laid paper, with white heightening 

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

[student-by-day]

wwi - wwii era postcards collected in germany [details below]

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The Kelpie by Herbert James Draper

[ismine-allmine-allmine-deactiva]

’The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde (published in 1890)

[silenceformysoul]

Francesco Hayez - Meditation, 1850

[clawmarks]

A  study of two hands - French School - c.1800 - via Sotheby’s

[loumargi]

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens.

[robert-hadley]

Photo by Felix Odell

[standingincoldwater]

Leon-Francois Comerre (1850-1916), “Luna" 

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[occultclassicalart]

DRAPER, Herbert James (1863–1920)

The Lament for Icarus, detail 1898 Oil on canvas, 182.9 x 155.6 cm Tate Britain Ed. Orig.