Boys Drawing, 1864 by Sofie Ribbing (Swedish, 1835–1894)

by Agustina Bottoni

original photos and edit

Based on an old fairytale “The Rose-Elf” about a woman keeping her lovers skull in a pot after he was murdered and crying into it day and night. Soon a jasmine plant grew from it.

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you need a BIG GOD BIG ENOUGH to hold your L O V E.

Peace and War, 1872 by Louis Gallait (Belgian, 1810–1887)

Size: 347x455 cm Medium: oil, panel

Pampered Treatment - Charles Edward Chambers (US, 1883 - 1941)

— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin featured in A Literate Passion: Letters Of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953

© Maxime Ballesteros.

Cats doing cat-like things on Feline Friday (mostly: we’re not sure about the one holding the handkerchief like a matador). This detail from a work called Cats for the 53 Stations of Tokaido (1847-1850) is reproduced in Kaibyō: The Supernatural Cats of Japan (2017).