Academia-wannabe - I Don’t Know What I’m Doing

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

From Larry Sultan's Pictures from Home

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—we’ve all been there in one way or another.

Villa Borghese. Rome, Italy.

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‘Pomegranates, Majorca’ by John Singer Sargent (american, 1856 - 1925)

Watercolor Animal Crossing Postcards made by ShiyiStudio

the detailing of royal jewels in portraits

Portrait of Maria Fyodorovna - Ivan Kramskoi (1880)

Portrait of Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) - Konstantin Makovsky

Janet Campbell - Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Portrait of Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry - Alexandre Jean Dubois-Drahonet (1800-1865)

Queen Henrietta Maria - Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1637)

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies - Valentín Carderera y Solano (1831)

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia - A. Maliukov (1836)

Maria Anna of Bavaria - Joseph Karl Stiele (1842)

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies - Vicente López Portaña (1830)

Art is just so genuinely impressive to me like being able to sketch people from memory and paint

can someone just serenade me with shakespeare sonnets and maybe kiss my hand idk