Withered Rose Blossom

Musings of a forgotten world

[modedamour]

[oldpaintings]

Night; and Day by Edward Robert Hughes (English, 1851-1914)

[silvianavarromartin]

[fripperiesandfobs]

Lucile evening dress, 1911, altered 1919

From the Fashion Museum, Bath via the Virtual Museum of Bath

[kuutamosonaatti]

Asta Nielsen in Hamlet (1921)

[dailyworldcinema]

— Run. I can’t keep up with you. Little birds.

Русский ковчег (2002) RUSSIAN ARK, dir. Alexander Sokurov

[thefaeriefolk]

The Forest Fairies by William Mitcheson Timlin

[the-dark-city]

“The Phantom Of The Opera” (1925)

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[the1920sinpictures]

1914 "Violet" by Heinrich Lefler from Art Deco, Art Nouveau and 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group, FB.

[nodforsex]

Cléo de Mérode photographed by Nadar, 1895

[books0977]

Spring (Portrait of Ilona Lippich) (1894). Károly Lotz (German-Hungarian, 1833-1904). Oil on canvas. Hungarian National Gallery.

Lotz created romantic landscapes and monumental and decorative murals and frescoes in the style of the Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. He also decorated some grand palaces. He was also known for his portraits and nudes.

[die-rosastrasse]

- Pablo Neruda, from Sonnet XVII

[tinypeony]

“Elegant ladies at Rest” By Louis Emile Adan

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Oskar Zwintscher (1870-1916) "Portrait with Yellow Daffodils" (1907)

[frostedmagnolias]

Day dress

c. 1906

Girolamo Giuseffi, Newfields

[mote-historie]

Léon Bakst, Scenery for the ballet Scheherazade, The Arabian Nights (Rimsky-Korsakov) set design, 1910.