Giuseppe Giorgetti (documented 1668-82) “Saint Sebastian” (1671-1672) Marble Located in the Basilica di San Sebastiano fuori le Mura, Rome, Italy

𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢

1. Ophelia by John William Waterhouse (1910) 2. Imogen by Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1888) 3. King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler (1903) 4. Sir Galahad by George Frederic Watts (1862) LOTR + art (27/?)

Epic of Gilgamesh X.235-248 (trans. Andrew R George)

Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

Oxford Bridge at Stowe Landscape Gardens

Autumn in Todmorden | GarettPhotography

Women reading in art.

The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city. The Course of Empire comprises the following works: The Course of Empire – The Savage State (1); The Arcadian or Pastoral State (2); The Consummation of Empire (3); Destruction (4); and Desolation (5).

Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom ~ gisforgeorgina

photo by Laura McPhee

robert mccabe, greece, 1950s

by Jaeyoun Ryu

(art detail), 1895

medieval heart-shaped prayer book in a medieval painting and in real life