Amoris

"Louisa Fletcher" Mary S. Blumenschein 

whitby abbey, england

Fallen in love with this place, this swooningly picturesque gothic ruin, a true green chapel cloaked in ivy, on the hill among the woods.

Austrian actress Lotte Medelsky on a vintage postcard

Illustrations from Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias, 12th c.

Photographer: Alice M. Boughton,

Woodcut, 12.8 × 9.1 cm, first half of the 16th century

Title: Night Angel Holding a Waning Moon Artist: William Morris (English, 1834-1896) Date: between 1857 and 1869 Genre: religious art Period: Victorian Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Arts and Crafts Movement Medium: watercolor, ink, graphite, and collage on mold-made paper Dimensions: 34 cm (13.4 in) high x 8.6 cm (3.4 in) wide Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Ophelia (1894) by John William Waterhouse

[ID: February 1. Nothing, merely tired. END ID]

Self-portraits by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa (1857-1893)

Dated to 1600 BCE, this bronze disk has a diameter of 32cm (about the size of a vinyl LP) and weighs around 2 kg. It is patinated blue-green and embossed with gold leaf symbols which appear to represent a crescent moon, the sun (or perhaps a full moon), stars, a curved gold band, interpreted as a sun boat, and a further gold band on the edge of the disk which probably represent one of the horizons.”

Cozy reading nooks 🤎📚

Mucha's use of flat colour and bold outlines, as seen in the honesty plant in the lower half of the composition, reveals his debt to Japanese prints.

Kyoto Pagoda in Spring source