What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross

fra-sjo:

aseaofquotes:

Frances O’Roark Dowell, Where I’d Like To Be

Tá bom. :~

fra-sjo:

Aw. 

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yuriirigaray:

Louis-Léopold Boilly, Tartini’s Dream (Le Songe de Tartini). 1824. Lithography. Louis-Léopold Boilly, Tartini’s Dream (Le Songe de Tartini).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rxl5KsPjs

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

—  Karl Lagerfeld (via english-rose)

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Nikolai Vassilievitch Gogol e o cabelinho de Débora.

yuriirigaray:

Artemisia Gentileschi

lace-me-tighter:

So very strange.

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tatteredbanners:

Engraving by Andrew Varick Stout Anthony

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Today at the museum my teacher pointed out that parents often requested that their deceased children would also be depicted when an artist made a portrait of their children. Often they would add a subtle sign that the child was deceased, in this case the girl is wearing a small skull and bones ring. 

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uglyrenaissancebabies:

Rembrandt, Abduction of Ganymede

Yup, that baby is definitely pissing himself with fear. Now that’s the kinda attention to disgusting, disturbing detail that truly made Rembrandt a master.

(no dia do meu aniversário)

yuriirigaray:

This photo of a marriage announcement congratulating the newlyweds Mr & Mrs Friemel was circulated on the 18th March 1944.  In Auschwits concentration camp where they were interns.

Photo Source:   The Book “Die Hochzeit von Auschwitz” von Erich  Hackl.   Diogenes Verlag Zurich   16, 90.- Euro.