the angels wanna wear my red shoes

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
L’Egypte de Mlle Cleo de Merode: cours elementaire d¹Histoire Naturelle
1940

stilllifequickheart:

Rory McEwen

Tulip Petal II

1978

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soyouthinkyoucansee:

Soyouthinkyoucansee

Ring, Laurits Andersen (1854-1933) - 1898

At Breakfast with the Newspaper (National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden)

Danish symbolism. 1898

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nevver:

The Flapper

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sherunslunatic:

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

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artdetails:

Detail of Caravaggio’s Sacrifice of Isaac (1603)

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missfolly:

Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace.
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,
Th’ indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw:
O make in me those civil wars to cease;
I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.
Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
A chamber deaf to noise and blind of light,
A rosy garland and a weary head;
And if these things, as being thine by right,
Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,
Livelier than elsewhere, Stella’s image see.

Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Sleep’

Painting: Under the Patchwork Quilt by William Peter Watson, undated