a notorious baggage

fletchingarrows:

an offering for may day 1894, walter crane

booksdirect:

Books bring stories to life.

Scipione Pulzone, Portrait of Bianca Capello, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (detail), 1584 (x)

medievalvisions:

Ceremonial chalice (or “Sifridus” chalice) from the Osnabrück Cathedral, c. 1240.

© Domkirchengemeinde Borga

discardingimages:

I can has a spindle? 

‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century.

British Library, Stowe 17, fol. 34r

livinginthelandofthelost:

Living in the land of the lost

Frank Cadogan Cowper ~

likeleaves:

“Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone.
But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying – even more terrible than dying young.”

― Joan of Arc

centuriespast:

Blockbook (ca. 1470)
Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis
Germany, about 1463–67

The Morgan library

mykaylaisnotonfire:

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

-Stephen King

I just can’t not reblog this

fuckyeahvintageillustration:

‘In the land where poppies bloom’, artists unknown, ca. 1918.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Segment of Napoleon Crossing the Alps (Alt. Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass, Bonaparte Crossing the Alps) by Jaques Louis David 1801-1805.

Typically I would never put “Napoleon” and “UNF” in the same sentence, but in this painting it only seems fitting. The eyes are killer.

aimeefleck:

Breeze
2013

Last animated illustration in this series! This lady had a really nice morning.