March 4, 2020

Visited the Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastusanghralaya (formerly known as Prince of Wales Museum) in Mumbai.

I'm totally in love with the architectural style - Indo-Saracenic coupled with Islamic and Gujarati styles and English brickwork.

It is one of the best museums in the whole country that is famous for sculptures, artefacts and several ancient artworks.

Messy handwritten letters, bouquets of hand-picked flowers wrapped in brown paper, pastries with haphazard patterns, starless skies, chipped tea cups, coffee stains

Manuscript of Chopin’s Polonaise in F Minor, Op. 71, No. 3, ca. 1828-29.

+ sketch beautiful architectural buildings and memorise various classical piano pieces 🥰

I want to be able to memorize poetry, to know the languages of the world, to remember the names of mountains and rivers. I want to be able to turn this mind of mine into a sanctuary. To stay silent as though it were a library or a museum. Beautiful and mystical.

Notre-Dame in Flames by Maéna Paillet.

Dark Academia Starter Kit Giveaway!

To celebrate The Wilde Club opening its doors again and having 1,000 followers I am hosting a giveaway.

To qualify you must:

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I will randomly pick a winner and announce them on March 22.

Included in the starter kit:

✨ Floral handkerchief that can also be used as a pocket square

✨ Mini Shulman bust

✨ French copy of Cyrano de Bergerac

✨ A porcelain tea cup

✨ A brooch

Details in Red

Portrait of Isabelle Antoinette Barones Sloet van Toutenburg, 1852, by Nicaise de Keyser.

Patricipance of Venice, 1881, by Alexandre Cabanel.

A Young Lady Aged 21, Possibly Helena Snakenborg, 1569, by an unknown artist.

Portrait de la comédienne Marie-Anne de Châteauneuf, 1712, by  Nicolas de Largillière.

Mrs. Hugh Hammersley, c. 1893, by John Singer Sargent .

Louise, Queen of the Belgians, 1841, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Sabina Seupham Spalding, c. 1846, by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz. 

Elizabeth I, the “Pelican” portrait, c. 1572, by Nicholas Hilliard.

Portrait of Mary Louise of Orleans, Queen of Spain, c. 1679, by José García Hidalgo.

Portrait of Marguerite de Sève, 1729, by Nicolas de Largillière.

Roaming on the streets of South Bombay

Mysore Palace, Mysuru, India