Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts

Edgar Degas, Musiciens à l’orchestre 1870/71

Memento Mori ring with the engraving “Remember you must die,” 1700.

flowers by Gustav Klimt, details

Monastery of Saint Benedict in Nursia (Norcia, Umbria, Italy)

— Pope Benedict XVI (via twocrowns)

FORESTBOUND

Details of The Madonna of the Magnificat - 1481; The Cestello Annunciation - 1489; The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Angel - 1490, by Sandro Botticelli

Silk embroidery from the period of the Arts and Crafts movement in England, illustrating the nursery rhyme ‘My Lady’s Garden’. The design is attributed to artist and illustrator Walter Crane. Needlework artist not known. Ca. late 1880s?

Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Annunciazione, 1904

Sandro Botticelli, Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, detail - 1492

Edward Hopper

From the article, Wild and Soft Is Joni Mitchell. published January 11, 1969.

(FIDM Museum)

Raphael Rivest | Alhambra, Spain. 

Edible flowers