steelylaceribbon:

Hugues Merle, Romeo and Juliet, (1879)

lacarpa:

Eiko Ojala

gaksdesigns:

French Painter Fabienne Verdier

gaksdesigns:

Banpo Bridge Rainbow Fountain, downtown Seoul, South Korea.

Travelling Companions by Augustus Leopold Egg (1862)

ze-reviewer-of-odd-volumes:

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The subject is Lilith, who was, according to ancient Judaic myth, “the first wife of Adam” and is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of children. She is shown as a “powerful and evil temptress” and as “an iconic, Amazon-like female with long, flowing hair.” Rossetti wrote the sonnet Lilith to accompany the painting Lady Lilith. 

“Draws men to watch the bright web she can weave,
Till heart and body and life are in its hold.
The rose and poppy are her flowers; for where
Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent
And soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare?
Lo! as that youth’s eyes burned at thine, so went 
Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent
And round his heart one strangling golden hair.”