isn’t it dreamy?

'women picking olives,' oil on canvas, vincent van gogh, dutch c. 1889.

Cape Disappointment

"Moonlight landing"-Johann Friedrich Boeck (1811-1873) was a German painter.

Love Song by Dorothy Parker

Count Ul de Rico, a.k.a. Ulderico Conte Gropplero di Troppenburg (Italian-born, 1944-2023), illustration from The Rainbow Goblins. NY: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

Ul de Rico

Vintage mermaid art

celebrative costumes from the Omu Valley, Ethiopia

study for carnation, lily, lily, rose / sargent / 1885

polly barnard by sargent

Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, "Morning in a Pine Forest", 1889

[Source: Christie's]

Jehan Bellegambe - Triptych of the mystical bath (c. 1500). Detail.

“portrait of countess antonietta negroni prati morosini as a child” details ca. 1858

石上純也氏 Junya Ishigami – Water Garden, 2018, Nasu Mountains, Japan