fuckyeahpreraphaelites:

Yseult
Frank Bernard Dicksee 

soyouthinkyoucansee:

Allegory of Patience, Carlo Dolci 1677

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.”

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)

poboh:

Resting, Victor Gabriel Gilbert. French (1847-1933)

Gilbert is usually a bit sentimental for my tastes but this is a lovely painting.

brevityofstars:

Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (1482-1485).

(Source: lesfoudres)

Maria, Countess of Coventry, an 18th century beauty best remembered for having died of blood poisoning due to the lead in her make-up.

Painting by Francis Cotes, 1751

worldpaintings:

Ilya Repin, Portrait of Chuguev resident S.L. Lyubitskaya, 1877, oil on canvas.

Ilya Repin was a leading Russian painter of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. His realistic works expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order.

Repin is one of my absolute favourite artists and he is all but forgotten in the annals of mainstream art history. His later work in particular is just incredible, so full of vitality and life.

anneboleynsservant:

Louise de Kérouaille by Peter Lely.

I love Sir Peter Lely & this is one of his finest

23silence:

English School - Portrait Of A Young Girl Holding Flowers

research-images:

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Francis of Assisi     Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta

15th Century

I love the angels floating off like ‘kthnxbye’