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hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

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François-Hubert Drouais 

French, 1727-1775

Madame du Barry (details)

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Max Nonnenbruch - Tempeldienerin (1886)

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Annie Stegg Gerard (@anniestegg)

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The Three Graces, 1831

They are named Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia or more commonly “The Three Graces” in Greek mythology. Daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, they symbolize respectively beauty, joy, and fertility.

Minor goddesses, they were considered by Homer handmaidens of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. They were represented in Art by numerous sculptors and painters throughout history, among them Raphael, Botticelli and Rubens.

This marble sculpture by Jean-Jacques Pradier, known as James Pradier is found in the Louvre museum.

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(art by Charles Edward Perugini)

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Winged Scholar by Betty Jiang

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last summer I saw a giant moth who had fallen into a water trough, and I gently lifted her out so she could dry her wings and fly away. This was an act of great foresight on my part, as I know that one day, when I am in grave danger and all hope is fading…she will appear, and remember me from long ago, and lift me out of the water trough that I have fallen into. I’m telling you, this moth was huge

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Varvara Ivanovna Ladomirsky (1800). Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842). Oil on canvas. Columbus Museum of Art. 

Vigée Le Brun painted this portrait in Moscow for the sitter’s mother, a personal friend. Varvara Ivanovna (1785–1840) was an illegitimate child of Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov and Countess Stroganova, who had left her husband in St. Petersburg to be with her lover. In this compelling image, the sitter is represented in Greek costume: a chemise dress under an embroidered stole fastened at the shoulder.

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Titian, Flora, circa 1515 (details)

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Avevo voglia d'amore anch'io, di carezze furtive, di un cuore in subbuglio.

Margaret Mazzantini

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Drawings by John William Waterhouse

Study for ‘The Lady Clare’ c. 1900

Study for ‘Hylas and the Nymphs’ c. 1896

Study for ‘Echo and Narcissus’ c. 1903

Study for ‘Flora and the Zephyrs’ c. 1897

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L'Educazione di Cupido

Pietro Liberi (Italian, 1605–1687)

Oil on canvas

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Deux nymphes

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725–1805)

Oil on canvas