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Iron Casket Key (French, 17th century ). Maker unknown.

Image and text information courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Nathalie Cohen, Quarantine Dreams.

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celestial beauty by @cocorrina.co

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feelings // hayley kiyoko

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Donati’s Comet, 1858. Astronomy for schools and general readers. 1892. 

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Fernanda Ly for the Dolce & Gabbana “I Love Maiolica” Collection Fall/Winter 2018-19

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mythology family ♥︎ vesna for @hawkgirls

in slavic mythology, vesna was the goddess of spring and fertility. she was in charge of spring time, morning and the birth of everything alive. vesna represents the coming of life after winter hibernation and the return of light after a period of darkness.

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mythology family ♥︎ iwanagahime for @artemi-sm

in japanese mythology, iwanagahime is a daughter of ōyamatsumi. ōyamatsumi offered both his beautiful daughter konohana sakuyahime and her older sister iwanagahime in marriage to ninigi. ninigi, however, could not bear iwanagahime’s unattractive appearance and returned her to her father. according to kojiki, ōyamatsumi told ninigi that he had offered his daughters together with the vow that the life of the emperors would be as eternal as the rocks. but since the elder sister iwanagahime (“rock-long-princess”) was returned, the life of the emperors would henceforth be brief like the blossoms of flowering trees (konohana sakuyahime means “tree-flower-blooms-princess”).

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Enceladus

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Marte Mei van Haaster photographed by Sonia Szóstak for Vogue Poland December 2018