architorturedsouls:

Public Library in Ceuta / Paredes Pedrosa

novitas-romanitas:

Amphitheatre - Leptis Magna

femme-de-lettres:

Large (Wikimedia)

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller painted The Roman Ruins in Schönbrunn in 1832.

I’ve always found Waldmüller’s body of work surprisingly incongruous. His genre scenes—paintings of every-day life—consist almost entirely of idealized, moralizing images of smiling rural families and occasional heavy-handed religious themes. They read almost as parodies of the pastoral ideal.

Yet his still-lives (and, as seen here, his landscapes) manage to be realistic—but also full of life; the statues in the middle seem mere moments from turning around, highlighted as they are by the little patch of sun through the arch.

improper:

mitzi—may:

secfromdisaster:

Abandoned Star Wars Set in the Desert

“No More Stars” showcases the backdrop of Luke Skywalker’s home on the fictional desert planet Tatooine. 

what?? they just left it in the desert? can we please go there???

visitheworld:

Ruins of St Catherine Cathedral in Visby, Sweden (by sgplewka).

architizer:

Ruin porn.