[periodinteriors]

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940), Figures in an Interior: Intimacy, Music, Selection of Books, and Work (Decorative Panels for Doctor Vaquez’s Library), 1896, glue-based paint on canvas.

[thesmellofincense]

Glory to Thee

[adreciclarte5]

by Joseph J. Steinmetz, 1947

[proustian-dream]

The beautiful is not a simple arrangement; it needs power, energy, conquest. Statues themselves have muscles. The formal cause is of an energizing order. So it is at its peak in life, in human life, the life of the will. A form cannot be properly understood through idle contemplation. The contemplating being must play out his own destiny before the universe he contemplates, and so all types of poetry are types of destiny. A history of poetry is a history of human feelings.

Gaston Bachelard, 'Lautréamont: Poet of Muscles and Cries', Lautréamont

[artssie]

Young Woman by the Water (b.1857-1922) by Max Nonnenbruch

[ducissatenebrarum]

Memento mori: doodled skeleton death holding an hour glass (Engelberg, Stiftsbib 339)

[vintagehomecollection]

Decorating with Pictures, 1991

[songs-of-the-east]

A Russian bridal costume from the Penza Oblast worn from the late 19th century into the 20th century

[thesmellofincense]

Busy busy busy

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Georg Flegel (1566-1638) "Still-Life with Fried Eggs" (c. 1630-1638) Oil on beech wood

[thesmellofincense]

Greetings from my planet to yours

[shisasan]

“But I need to feel beautiful and holy things around me, always: music, mystery cults, symbols, myths. I need it, and I refuse to give it up… . That’s my fatal flaw.”

— Hermann Hesse, Demian

[koredzas]

Hieronymus Bosch - Scenes from the Passion of Christ, Reverse of Painting “Saint John the Evangelist”. 1489

[enchantedbook]

Gustave Dore's illustration to Dante's Inferno, 1900.

[thesmellofincense]

It is inappropriate to parade your failings in public

[thesmellofincense]

Yummmmm carcinogens

[thekimonogallery]

Extraordinary Kabuki stage costumes. First half 19th century, Japan.  Tokyo National Museum