Ambrosius Benson (lombardy C. 1495-1550)

Dark Academia On A Budget Aesthetic

Thrifted/Secondhand books. Old t-shirts & jeans. Watching Dead Poets Society on 123movies. Printing sheet music from Google. Jacking your dad’s coats & sweaters. Sneaking your mom’s blazers & loafers. Cheap eyeliner & dry shampoo. Downloading PDFs of classic books. Using $1 notebooks for journaling. Gas station coffee & tea. Borrowing books from the library (and “forgetting” to return them).

art detail: gold & white dresses

Cinematography in Penny Dreadful 1x02, Seance 

Romanticize your life. Make it into a movie that you’ve always dreamed of. Don’t let no one stop you from making your life enjoyable, not even yourself. Make it beautiful, make it worth living.

Decorative cover of ‘The Moss Rose’ a gift book published in 1850 by Nafis & Cornish.

Boston Public Library

Internet Archive  

Preludio F. Liszt 8 Juin, 1841

Orpheus and Eurydice, Edward Poynter, 1862

torment your spouse with violin music