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Mysore Palace, Mysuru, India

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

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A visit to the Gateway of India

It is a memorial arch built in the Indo-Saracenic style (an amalgamation of British, Hindu and Islamic styles) to commemorate the arrival of King George V and Queen Mary as it was the first visit of a British monarch to India.

The monument is of RCC and yellow basalt. The jaali work (latticework) is intricate and decorative.

Fun fact: The King and the Queen were only able to see the cardboard model of this structure as the work was not yet completed :)

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Façades of South Bombay

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Roaming on the streets of South Bombay

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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.

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Steel Trusses of Mumbai local train stations

Stations:-

Lower Parel, Dadar, Wadala, Borivali, Mira Road, Bandra

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Interior of the nave, Church of the Gesù, Rome.

Artist: Bruce Coleman

⚜ Baroque month on @mynocturnality

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Notre-Dame in Flames by Maéna Paillet.

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Penshurst Church, Kent, England.

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Why did we stop with ballroom dances??? Like seriously to waltz around a room with a handsome stranger to classical music while others look at us with envy and after the music ends both of you with flushed cheeks, breathing fast, the sexual tension ; that was the shit.

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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.

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Dark academia aesthetic.

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The Musée Bourdelle, Spring 2018

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Don't expect me to leave once I enter :)

imagine all the libraries we have to visit when the lockdown ends...

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+ 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.