even death may die

ca. 1900

Eugenio Andrade Schulz / Alexander McQueen, American Express Black Show 2004 / Vogue Hong Kong, March 2022 / Mirror Palais, Spring/Summer 2023 / Guo Pei, Spring 2017 / Alexander McQueen, Fall 1996 / Christian Dior, Fall 2000 / Alexander McQueen, Autumn/Winter 1997-8 / Versace, Fall/Winter 1997.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857

dionysus locket, circa 1880. the back is engraved with an anchor, a symbol of hope and faith in the victorian era.

the immaculate heart of mother mary, silver and jeweled .

Carl Frithjof Smith (Norwegian, 1859-1917) After First Communion, Detail, 1892

on death with 1. lilies abounded, @petfurniture, twitter; 2. frances molina, “o’death”

Garden of Death, Hugo Simberg

The most beautiful thing I’ll read today.

From Homer’s Odyssey.

Rijksmuseum

Zoroastrian tower to dispose of the dead, where corpses are eaten by vultures, Wellcome Collection

Fairy Queen on a Bat by Amelia Jane Murray

A satire on the criticism of Witkiewicz, 1890. — Wojciech Piechowski (1849-1911)

Boldini Giovanni (detail)

Wellcome Library

Shanghai Ballet Company in Jane Eyre

Walpurgis Night, from Goethe’s Faust by Alexander Liezen Mayer (1877)