Giuseppe Mentessi (Italian, 1857-1931) Pace, 1907 Museo dell'Ottocento
“Why life is so blank, brief and bitter I do not know — Why younger and far better than I are snatched from it with projects unfulfilled I cannot comprehend.”
Charlotte Brontë, from a letter to W S Williams, talking abouth the death of her siblings Emily, Anne and Branwell
Jean-Joseph Perraud, Le Désespoir (Despair)
hand details of ‘Henry Cabot Lodge’ (1890) by John Singer Sargent and ‘Zwei Hande Mit Stock’ by Wilhelm Leibl
Ghismonda with the heart of Guiscardo detail, (1650) by Bernardino Mei
In Deep Thought
Alfred Stevens (1823-1906)
Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle, 1850, by James Sant.
Yves Olade, from Bloodsport; “When rome falls”
Langston Hughes (1902-1967), ‘Tired’, “New Masses”, Vol. 6, #9, Feb. 1931 Source
ode to ophelia 🍃 x
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
Angel Playing the Lute
Rosso Fiorentino
oil on wood panel, ca. 1521
The Fountain of Diana and Actaeon by Paolo Persico (18th Century)
watching the moon from my window. x
Camellia sinensis, Chinese variety, 十八学士shi ba xue shi (eighteen scholars)
— vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to véra (trans. olga voronina & brian boyd)