niiloi

flower polaroids by Mathieu Trautmann

Eugène Cyrille Brunet, Messaline

Javier Bardem & Penelope Cruz in Jamon Jamon (1992)

At the Minoan site of Akrotiri, which was devastated by the Thera eruption in the mid-second millennium BCE, the Minoan ‘Spring Fresco’ (c. 1600 BCE) features blooming lilies and dancing swallows

Letters of my Mother, Vera Molnar, 1990

old books

Peony (detail), c. 1986. Zhang Shaoshi (1913-1991)

For the New Yorker yesterday - illustrating Jia Tolentino’s article on books about “dizzy, quiet, fucked-up, sideways versions of” love. A treat. Article here.

The Awakening Of The Poet, Gabriel Ferrier (1899)

Pond with Swans at Dusk by Ferdinand Keller (1899)

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔢𝔵𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯 𝔪𝔦𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯.

1925 “The Letter” from “Jugend” magazine, by Karl Boehmer.

Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 145.4 cm

Michelangelo and His Drawings.