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 elian1: To all my friends around the world but more especially to a Canadian and a South African friends :) But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose…   Keats 

kathrynsora: Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels (detail), c. 1455.

(via kathrynsora, sealmaiden)

tatteredbanners: “Diana, goddess of the hunt and the moon.”

yama-bato: Chinese porcelain ewer from the Ming period, with English silver-gilt mounts dated 1589, at Hardwick Hall. Photographed for the 1985 Treasure Houses of Britain exhibition held in Washington, DC. ©NTPL

yama-bato: Cultured Pearl DeCosse, Cy, b.1929 21st Journal of Contemporary Photography Vol. IV, 2000 18.7 x 21.4 cm Photogravure

yama-bato: Late-seventeenth-century mirror, its ebonised frame inlaid with pierced gilt brass chased with acanthus patterns, one of a pair, probably English, in the Cartoon Gallery at Knole. The pilasters with grotesque decoration are topped by ram’s masks, the old crest of the Sackville family. ©National Trust Images/Andreas von Einsiedel via

clearairturbulence: Inferno Artist: Gerald Brom

inneroptics: Maud Madison

wwwambrosecomtumblr: Eikoh Hosoe