once i found out what dark academia was it was over for me
“For a moment I’m twenty-two again, watching my innocence slip through my fingers with equal parts eagerness and terror.”
-M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
‘Nothing,’ he said. ‘Except that my life, for the most part, has been very stale and colorless. Dead, I mean. The world has always been an empty place to me. I was incapable of enjoying even the simplest things. I felt dead in everything I did.’
— The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
(Henry Winter)
the vocabulary of loss is the dictionary
"i can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."
isaac newton
Dark academia subjects: Chemistry
My aesthetic is like dark academia but the medieval Iranian / Islamic golden age version
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
Oscar Wilde
The Power of the Sublime (Imaginative Architecture)
1-2 Prospettiva architettonica, Pietro Gaspari; Colegiata de San Isidro, Ventura Rodriguez
3 Piranesi’s design for a monumental staircase
4. Stage Design, Giuseppe Galli Bibiena
5-6 Interior of San’t Ignazio, Gian Paolo Panini. The Illumination of the Cross in Saint Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
7. Imperial Mausoleum, Piranesi
8-9 Large sculpture gallery built on arches and lit from above, Architecture and Perspectives, Piranesi; roup of columns which support two arches of a great courtyard, Piranesi