artschoolglasses:

1919

Ralph Willis Brown

Photograph by Leopold Hugo

elysskama:

Symmetria
Carl Siess
Austria, 1901

fuckyeahpreraphaelites:

Yseult
Frank Bernard Dicksee 

soyouthinkyoucansee:

Allegory of Patience, Carlo Dolci 1677

This is my favourite Fitzgerald novel. Also, those drawings on the cover look suspiciously like Fitzgerald and Zelda, amirite?

(Source: stevens-cat)

avanishedtime:

Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (detail), 1842, Wilhelm von Schadow

(Source: old-world)

demonagerie:

British Library, Egerton 1121, detail of f. 38. Ulrich von Pottenstein, Spiegel der Weisheit. Salzburg, c.1430. “…a miniature of the Human ear complaining to a personification of Nature that she has given him no such protection as the eye was given with the eyebrows.”

myancientworld:

Detail of Antinous, the lover of emperor Hadrian. According to Hadrian he had ‘drowned in a river’; however, there is debate as to whether he in fact committed suicide or sacrificed himself.

enchantingimagery:

Helena from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Arthur Rackham.

(Source: post-facto)

vivelareine:

A portrait of Marie-Therese-Louise de Savoie-Carignan, the princesse de Lamballe, by Marie-Victoire Lemoine. 18th century.

The princesse de Lamballe was one of Marie Antoinette’s dearest friends, along with the duchesse de Polignac.

Lamballe is my favourite figure connected with the Revolution. I think she genuinely was just wonderfully innocent and, well, not entirely bright, and couldn’t quite comprehend of the world being corrupt. I think if she’d realised quite how things were for the poor, she’d have been utterly devastated but she was brought up in privileged surroundings and never had a chance to see the outside world really - and not being of a particularly inquiring mind, never sought to understand it. 

Her death is by far the most tragic of the Revolution.

detail from Peter Paul Rubens’ Saint Sebastian,  c. 1614

(Source: shephaestion)

John Hoppner, Mademoiselle Hilligsberg

I’d probably date this 1798-1805 but this is not my favourite period for dating things ever so don’t take my word for it.

(Source: old-world)