“...and all the stars flowered in the sky.”

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817–1900), "The Ninth Wave" (details), 1850

Sidney Sheldon, “Master of the Game”

The British Museum : Exhibition - Troy Myth and Reality. Nov. 2019 - March 2020.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

Summer Flowers (1880) | Henri Fantin-Latour

— 34 excuses for why we failed at love, Warsan Shire

Art Details Series: Lovers  || Tom Lovell, Carl Herpfer, Franz Gullery, Silvio Allason, Walter Sadler, Heinrich von Angeli, James Jebusa Shannon, Karl Heinrich Hoff, Howard Pyle ||

Frederick Sandys (1829–1904), May (detail)

19th Century Yarnwork of Flowers

Roman statue of empress Vibia Sabina, wife of Hadrian (r. 117-138 CE). Marble. 

Morning light in the library of All Souls’ College, Oxford.

Grand salon, Appartements Napoléon III, Musée du Louvre, Paris (by somercinema).

The Secret Garden (1993)

Monica Bellucci in LA RIFFA (1991) dir. Francesco Laudadio

Interiors of Amer Fort in Jaipur, India depicting murals with a flowering plant motif.

Vincent van Gogh, “Vase with Irises”, 1890