Folk Art Painted Quilt by the wonderful Cart Before the Horse

GOLTZIUS, Hendrick
(b. 1558, Mühlbrecht, d. 1617, Haarlem)
Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus would Freeze
1599-1602
Ink and oil on canvas, 105 x 80 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Qadiri dervishes
Verspronck Johannes Cornelisz - The Regentesses of the St. Elisabeth’s Hospital in Haarlem (1662).
A Baroque Bene Gesserit
life:
In early October, 2010, the ancient pagan tradition of Druidry was, for the first time, formally classed as a religion in Britain. The legal significance of this new status for those who today call themselves Druids is considerable: they can, for instance, receive exemptions from taxes on donations. The spiritual significance, meanwhile — of having one’s religion recognized on a par with, say, the Church of England after years of living on the very margins of Europe’s great faiths — can hardly be overstated.
see more — Druids: Mystery, Fact, Myth
(Source: quotesofquotes, via peekadora)
Woman Hanging out the Wash by Berthe Morisot, 1881, oil on canvas, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen, Denmark
…And take a look at Manet’s Le Linge, 1875, my Very First Picture Post. :)
