Somnium Dantis

I have been here before, but when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, the sweet keen smell, the sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

[nature-and-culture]

Butterflies via corbinkurgin

[somniumdantis]

Photo: Helena Aguilar Mayans Fashion design/Modelling: Me for The Seamstress of Rohan

What went we out into this wilderness to find? Leaving our country, kindred, our fathers houses? We have travailed a vast ocean. For what? For what?

[edithsghosts]

“When a man writes something, it’s what he’s written that’s judged. 

When a woman writes something, it’s her that’s judged.”

[pflanzendergotter]

Death as a noblewoman - Gerhard Altzenbach

[xaravaggio]

Gustav Klimt, LOVE ( 1895 )

[paintingispoetry]

Lucas Cranach the Elder, A Princess of Saxony, 1517

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1850 George Richmond - Portrait of Mrs Partridge and her sister Miss Croker

[oldpaintings]

Portrait of a Lady, half-length, dressed in pink by Ottavio Maria Leoni (Italian, 1578–1630)

[paintingsdaily]

Frederick Leighton (1830 - 1896) ‘Paolo’ (1875)

[cimmerianweathers]

Luise Ulrike of Prussia, Queen of Sweden, workshop of Antoine Pesne, undated. Oil on canvas.

[female-arthistory]

Judith, Elisabetta Sirani, c. 1662, oil on canvas

[fuckyeahfarinelli]

Farinelli + scores

[renaissance-art]

Jan Brueghel the Elder c. 1618

Still-Life with Garland of Flowers and Golden Tazza

[wordsnquotes]

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (via wordsnquotes)

[artofrestraint]

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope ‘The gentle music of a bygone day’ 1873, from the poem: The Earthly Paradise, William Morris

[flemishgarden]

Gabriël Metsu - Woman feeding a cat

circa 1662-1665

oil on panel

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

[apdistractions]