hazel motes

Hildegard von Bingen, Scivias I.6: The Choirs of Angels, 1151. From the Rupertsberg manuscript, via wiki

Liturgy, The Seraph’s costume, Natalia Goncharova

https://www.wikiart.org/en/natalia-goncharova/liturgy-the-seraph-s-costume

by Kikugawa Eizan, Asian Art

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54922

“In this world turned to ashes, With an inheritance of memories and nearby troubles, I certainly dreamed I was finite…”

Three tomb guardians at the Astana cemetery, China, 1915.

The Butterflies

Artist: Kunisada (Magicians) Date: May 1863

Itsuko Azuma en.tis-home.com/itsuko-azuma 

Rosa mística 1894 by FRANCISCO LAPORTA VALOR   [Alcoy, 1850 – 1914]

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— C.P. Cavafy, October 1902. (via ceaserlacan)

Afghanistan, Mazar-E-Sharif 2008. Scenes of daily life during wartime. Blue mosque,  Peter van Agtmael.

Artist: Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792)

Title: The Syllable Mu: The First Red Maple Leaves, from the series Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Prints (Fûryû nishiki-e Ise monogatari)

風流錦絵伊勢物語　「む」　かえでの初紅葉

Edo period, about 1770–73

the girl with a pomegranate (1875)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau in Moonlight, 1908, Ferdinand Hodler

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ferdinand-hodler/eiger-monch-and-jungfrau-in-moonlight-1908

Fukiya Koji 蕗谷虹児 (1898-1979)

Bara to shoujo 薔薇と少女 (rose and girls) solo exhibition work - Japan - 1968

Source : zenmono.jp

A Hellenistic gold earring in the shape of a dove.

2nd century BCE

Met Museum:  25.78.41

Ulisse Aldrovandi, 1658

Rim Dong Sik (1954-) ‘Memory in Summer 1981’, 2005 (182 x 227 cm)