Untitled Illustration by E. Harding

Zuhair Murad Spring 2024 Haute Couture

Sunset 2024 Colored pencil, chalk and graphite on Hahnemühle paper 90.5 x 65.9 cm via more

Lauterbrunnen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland by Tom Durrer

Grace Jones performing at Afropunk Festival located at Commodore Barry Park in New York City on August 21, 2015

Tomo Hyakutake

Lava flow on Puna coast, Hawaii

nature but it looks like a sad hug its so real

With its use of polychromatic materials and melancholic subject matter of the femme fatale, Lamia epitomises the ideals of the late 19th century Symbolist movement. Frampton’s figure is not the sorceress of classical tradition but the Lamia of John Keats’s eponymous poem (1819).  Keats’s Lamia is a beautiful serpent-like creature who assumes female form to win the love of the mortal Lycius. When her true nature is exposed at their wedding, she vanishes and her husband dies.

by Tiina Gill

Fairy Queen costume, Iolanthe, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1977. Designed by Bruno Santini

Image and text information courtesy NYPL Digital Collection.

Earlier researches attributed the costume to Pál Esterházy’s (1635–1713) first wife Orsolya Esterházy (1641–1682) and later to his second wife Éva Thököly (1659–1716). The original owner can no longer be traced but the cut and the embroidery ascertain that either could have worn it at her wedding. The suite was restored by Mrs Sándor Borsi between 1969 and 1971.

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The Girl Who Lived in the Tree

“the sun” by edvard munch (1909)

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