"Hast du Angst vor dem Tod", fragte der kleine Prinz die Rose. Darauf antwortete sie: "Aber nein. Ich habe doch gelebt, ich habe geblüht und meine Kräfte eingesetzt soviel ich konnte. Und Liebe, tausendfach verschenkt, kehrt wieder zurück zu dem, der sie gegeben.“
Gute Nacht


Born on this day in 1495, in Florence, Giovanni Battista di Jacopo. Better known as Rosso Fiorentino, the red-headed Florentine. Here, playing a birthday tune, a musical cherub from 1521.

View of Delft. About half a century earlier than The Other One & painted by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom. Today is his day.

Record of a lost monument: view of the old Haarlemmerpoort in Amsterdam, c. 1615, by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom. It's his day.

Adam & Eve. So sweet, so affectionate, so doomed. Cat: can we get this over with already? Goats: unconcerned. By Hendrick Goltzius, 1616. It's his day today..jpg