#Marble

[bluegangster]

evar flignot was a man who loved too much. or maybe just enough. depends on how you look at it.

his wife died young. too young. took something from him that he never quite got back. and instead of moving on—instead of healing, forgetting, filling the empty space with something new— he built.

a mausoleum. not just a grave, not just a monument, but a masterpiece of marble and grief. carved every detail by hand, shaped the stone like he was trying to sculpt her back into existence.

they say it was perfect. every column, every arch, every inch of marble bleeding devotion. an obsession frozen in time. people traveled just to see it, to stand in the shadow of a love that refused to rot.

but the thing about love like that? the kind that doesn’t fade, doesn’t bend, doesn’t make room for anything else? it destroys.

evar flignot spent his days inside the mausoleum, whispering to a woman who wasn’t there, polishing stone instead of living. and when he died, alone and worn thin, they buried him there. sealed the doors shut. left him to rest beside the love he could never let go of.

so now it stands, a monument to something that should have ended long before the marble set.

a lesson, if you look close enough.

cemetery of laeken, brussels.

the story of a marble worker evrard flignot who devastated by the death of his wife built a mausoleum for her. at first look inside, there is a mourner reaching out to an empty wall. but, once a year, on the day of the summer solstice, the sun draws a light that recalls this love for almost a century.

[vintagehomecollection]

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

[turkicartist]

HAIIIII HOW IS EVERYONEEEEEEE

[altrbody]

Fabio Viale, marble sculpture.

[nyx-a-licious]

fuck

[namedvesta]

Antonio Frilli, “Sweet Dreams”, Marble sculpture (𝟣𝟪𝟫𝟤).

[shocotate]

I broke a ramune bottle to get the marble out for my dragon.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[letmeinimafairy]

And another one, because I'm obsessed, and because for some mysterious reason carving with shaking hands is way easier than drawing. Carved shell, moss and resin, sea glass and pearls for a necklace.

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[dapper-lil-arts]

Ok NOW this might be the last one 🤣

[666candies]

Lilith statue in Malbork Castle, Poland

[conformi]

Emerald Fennell, Saltburn, 2023 VS Fauno Barberini, Glyptothek, München, 220 a.C.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[ianitos]

[zegalba]

The beautiful carved marble steps leading down to the gallery at the Hotel National des Arts et Metiers in Paris.