Still Life with Glasses in a Basket, by Sebastian Stoskopff, Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg.
james baldwin, giovanni’s room
“I open my fingers— I let everything go.”
— Louise Gluck, A Village Life; Twilight.
Portrait of Lady Sunderland (detail) 1786. Joshua Reynolds
Lina Cavalieri as Thaïs , Du Theatre National de l'Opera
Frank C. Papé, Illustration from Thais (detail), 1926.
Thaïs by Jules Massenet based on the novel by Anatole France.1893.
Art by Jean Veber.(1868-1928).
Bed hanging with Pegasus and the Nine Muses (Italy, circa 1700).
Silk with silk and metallic-thread embroidery.
Images and text information courtesy LACMA.
Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, by Opera Atelier (2016) (x)
Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. –Oscar Wilde
“New York Plaisance - An Illustrated Series of New York Places of Amusement ” by Charles R. Bevington, 1908 Source
Stephen GIll - Hackney Flowers, 2004-2007
long-eared bat
Psalter, England c. 1360-1400
Bodleian Library, Exeter College MS 47, fol. 21v
safo by miguel carbonell selva (1881) // virginia woolf to vita sackville-west (1929) (x)
The Knight of the Flowers details | George Rochegrosse | 1894
Romains de la décadence / Romans during the Decadence (1847) by Thomas Couture