#aestheticism

[7pleiades7]

Innocence (1899) by Arthur Hacker, RA (British, 1858 – 1919), oil canvas, 17 x 21 in (43 x 53 cm), Private Collection

[victoriantomodern]

Worcester Royal Porcelain Co., "Aesthetic teapot", 1882, porcelain, 15.4 x 17.5 x 8.6 cm, NGV.

[tropicofcancer1999]

[classicarte]

Détail de « Le Divertissement Musicale », par Hans Makart, ca. 1874.

Detail of "Musical Entertainment", by Hans Makart, ca. 1874.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Lady of the Lake Telleth Arthur of the Sword Excalibur. Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Book I, Chapter III of Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, published by J.M. Dent and Co. in 1893.

[verademialove]

"I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong."

Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

[dark-longings]

The model at rest, 1882. Almeida Júnior.

[lucidloving]

Janet Fitch, White Oleander // Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye // Gail Carson Levine, "Fairest" // Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters // Hieu Minh Nguyen, "Pig" // Valentina-Remenar on DeviantArt // Ashe Vernon, Not A Girl