Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. Tacitus
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The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-1622 Marble
Height 225 cm
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Pantheon, Rome -- September 16th, 2024
Etsy
if you asked me what my favorite things are... i'd always say books 📚🕯️
Winter Full Moon Night over the Ruins of a Gothic Chapel (Felix Kreutzer, 1835 - 1876)
Maxim Vorobiev - "Raising of Columns to St Isaac's Cathedral" (1838)
Statue of Jupiter, late 1st century AD. From the villa of Emperor Domitian (Flavian dynasty). Hermitage Museum.
Bran Castle, Romania (by JK)
The Hermitage by Alphonse Mucha
Bronze statuette of a dancing satyr, Roman, 3rd-2nd century BC The House of the Faun, Pompeii Museo Archeologico Nazionale (inv. 5002)
The Lost Lagoon. A print of this is available in my shop
L'Orage / The Storm (1880) by Pierre Auguste Cot
The Death of Icarus, by Alexandre Cabanel
“Les druides coupant du gui le sixième jour de la Lune / Druids Cutting the Mistletoe on the Sixth Day of the Moon” Henri-Paul Motte 1900
“Święty Marcin / Saint Martin” Piotr Stachiewicz 1907
Lion of Amphipolis, Greece 4th c. BC
Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Denmark
Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes in Los Angeles, early 1953.
The Holy Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of San Salvador
Foundation 8th century
Construction 13th - 17th century
A writer is just a byproduct of a war between cruel life and a will to exist
Refuge Before a Storm (1880) by Paul Merwart
scenery in china
William Morris (1834-1896） Tree of Life