Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Ralph & Russo Eden Heel Pumps

The Death of Ophelia by Richard Westall, reduced replica of the painting made for Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and engraved in 1793

English, late 18th or early 19th century

watercolor on paper

British Museum

💀 GOTHIC NIGHTMARES 💀

“What is writing but the preservation of ghosts?”

- Dark Academia Aesthetic

“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Detail of ‘Lady with the Jewel’ by Anthonis Mor (dutch, 1512 - 1576)