rêverie

moonlight in art.

"The Last Days of Pompeii" by James Hamilton (1864)

Nordic Summer Evening, (1899-1900). By Richard Bergh, (1858 - 1919). Oil on canvas.

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.."

The Kiss (1910)

Phrosine and Mélidore, by Édouard Joseph Dantan, 1878.

“He looked sadly down at the street, as though it were his own bottomless sadness.”

The Kiss of the Sphinx By Franz von Stuck

Title: Autopsy

I fear the things that touch my heart. So I always run away from them and I run away from you.

“Ophelia” by Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923).

The Mother