prelude

[jamesusilljournal]

Dream, Paul Herrmann, 1914

[godslaughters]

Dead Christ (details) by Philippe de Champaigne

[nymphaealilly]

"The Penitent Magdalene" ~ by Francesco Lupicini

[namedvesta]

Alexandre Schoenewerk, La jeune Tarentine (𝟣𝟪𝟩𝟣)

[countess--olenska]

Lobmeyr champagne bowl, ca. 1900

[aqua-regia009]

Roman Ruins in Schonbrunn (1891) by Carl Julius Rudolf Moll

[vintagehomecollection]

Antiques at Home, 1989

[seurate]

Adam (detail) by Emile-Antoine Bourdelle. 1889.

[die-rosastrasse]

Gabriel Ferrier

French, 1847-1914

[valtsv]

blood test came back haunted

[valtsv]

it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

[valtsv]

it's rotten work but decay is an essential part of the cycle of death and rebirth

[die-rosastrasse]

Hans Zatzka

Austrian, 1859-1945

The Belly Dancer (details)

[die-rosastrasse]

Two portraits of a French dancer Cléo de Mérode

Painting by Giovanni Boldini, 1901

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Her Favourite’ by Nikolai Bodarevsky, c. 1905.

[riversname]

The Sea Hath Its Pearls by William Margetson (1897)

[arjuna-vallabha]

Ancient Mesopotamia scene

[sollertias]

A Blonde by Kenyon Cox, 1891 (details)