vulpes pilum mutat, non mores

“Take time for beauty.” -SR A collection of photographs and paintings which remind me of Sylvain Reynard and his novels.

[sylvain-reynard-collection]

My midnight muse 🖤

[fraudbible-deactivated20201010]

I deleted your city off my weather app

[siteofscaffold]

Roberto Ferri, APOLLO E DAFNE, 2020 (details).

[templeofapelles]

Sandro Botticelli Three Graces, detail.

[lebleurenard-deactivated2021062]

✨Russian history student

Moodboard for @tonyhopkins

[teufelsmaske-deactivated2025052]

do you ever see handwritten notes in a used/second hand book and you are like.. yes.. my dear anonymous lover who I never met.. I feel our bond through this piece of classic literature.. our two souls are merging into one.. or ist that just me?

[craftingtheclassics]

“I write every word of my books with my own hand, and do not write them very quickly either. I write with great care and pains (being passionately fond of my art, and thinking it worth any trouble).”

— Charles Dickens details his writing process in a letter to Frau Alberti dated April 30, 1856.

[darkacademiac]

Ideal relationship of a dark academic

Reading books together in front of a fireplace, sipping on hot tea as you lean into each others warmth

Gently holding hands as you walk through the streets, quietly telling eachother about your days

Painfully cheesy pickup lines

Wearing their jacket because they insist it will be warmer than yours, despite just wanting their jacket to smell like you

Wandering around the mall together, playfully arguing over whether you should go to Cinnabon

Going to book stores together and losing track of time

“When we move in together, we should have our own little library”

Beethoven playing gently in the background as you have your first kiss

“I got us tickets to that play you were talking about”

Getting so caught up in the relationship that you forget to tell anyone about it

Going to see old movies

The kind of love where you don’t have to say anything, being in each other’s presence is enough

[sylvain-reynard-collection]

It is a thing of indescribable beauty to linger and ponder upon the traces of this stranger’s anecdotes, as if his intended crooked pencil highlights were hidden messages left solely for me to decode— his intimate overture for me to drink from the fascinations of his soul, to undress the consuming depths of his heart, and to explore the labyrinth of his mind. A tryst in which his past and my present entwine in the browned pages of a Russian classic.

[sylvain-reynard-collection]

mon amour 🖤

[flowerytale]

Dante’s Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII

[killem-all-if-they-wont-eat-cake]

Dante and Beatrice ascending to the Fifth Sphere of Heaven (Gustave Doré).

[sylvain-reynard-collection]

‘You are my sticky little leaf. My beautiful, sad, sticky little leaf, and I want to see you happy and whole’ — Sylvain Reynard 🍁🦊

[sylvain-reynard-collection]

“For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”

[fourthepigram]

When all else fails, trust in the art that is always there for centuries witnessing the rise and fall of mankind. And here to witness you lift your chin to the aether once more.

ig: fourthepigram

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

from a 19th century bookplate..

[everythingfox]

🎁

Vincent the Fox