red rouge sun

all credits go to john bauer.

Ada Limón / Herbert James Draper / Nina Mouawad

One of Byron’s last major works, The Island describes a fictional, paradisiacal place called Toobonai where there is no class system or division of property. Much like the utopia of Byron’s fantasy, the settings of John William Godward’s paintings are far removed from the trials of the modern world. In this sophisticated and complex composition, a classical beauty in a diaphanous cerulean stola lounges gracefully on a marble bench, indifferent to a smoking Mount Vesuvius visible in the distant summer haze. The second figure plays a classical Greek double flute or aulos. The warm, vivid hues of the Pompeiian interior’s frescoed walls contrast with the cool marble and the serene azure vista beyond the arbor. It is a scene of idyllic beauty and pensive idleness.

The Ring by Helena Nyblom depicted by John Bauer (1913)

Found on r/exjw

-Mod Degurechaff, FREEDOM! …to learn stuff.

Herbert James Draper, The Mountain Mist (c. 1912)

Ann Demeulemeester S/S 2016

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Damsel of the Sanct Grael (1874)

E.E. Cummings, “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond.”

What am I (via toexist265)

Up until recently I thought I had only shot black and white  in Ann’s beautiful sunny studio. Easy to miss one roll of film contacted in black and white! Twenty years later here is the frame.