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“Thaw” by Leonid Popov (USSR, 1957)

Alfred Stevens (1823 - 1903) The Letter (fragment)

I, Maya Plisetskaya by Maya Plisetskaya // Princess Tarakanova by Konstantin Flavitsky

“Eat heartily and be beautiful. Dieting is the bunk. I hear nothing but talk about eighteen day diets wherever I go. But not for me. To live well and happily, one must eat well. Good eating does far more to make women beautiful than fasting.” – Lili Damita in 1929. Photo: 1929.

Lili Damita by Atelier Manasse. 1920′s. 

Lili Damita in The Woman Between  (Victor Schertxinger, 1931)

1930′s

Nella Regini Edna Best Lili Damita Louise Brooks Anita Berber Unknown French Woman Anaïs Nin Via Kasbah Salomè

Giardino dipinto (inizi I sec.), particolari, dalla Casa del Bracciale d'oro - Parco archeologico di Pompei, Napoli.

Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe

25.01.1975 Melody Maker magazine

An addition

More images of Ruth Negga as Hamlet at Gate Theater Dublin, (21 Sept-27 Oct 2018)

Portrait of a woman said to be Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Detail.

Mary Oliver, "From West Wind." Devotions

— White Oleander, Janet Fitch (via decreation)