beauty is a fragile thing

Art, history, and literature

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)

[psikonauti]

Gustave Max Stevens (Belgian,1871-1946)

The Twelve Dancing Princesses, 1899

oil on canvas

[history-of-fashion]

1635 Giovanna Garzoni - Portrait of Zaga Christ (Ṣägga Krǝstos)

(Allen Memorial Art Museum)

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

By decree: vintage queens.

[lionofchaeronea]

A Portrait of John Singer Sargent, Giovanni Boldini, ca. 1890

[elephantlovemedleys]

disney meme (favourite silver age movie):

cinderella - 1950

[fuckyeahcostumedramas]

Naomi Watts as Queen Gertrude & Daisy Head as Cristiana in Ophelia (Film, 2018).

[iridessence]

Alice Davis from the Mary Everhard Collection at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The first picture is labeled “circa 1895“ on the museum website but based on the silhouette of the gown, I would estimate the year 1905 to 1908

[pompeianred]

if looks could kill Shōgun (2024-)

[izzylimon]

[colinfirth]

GREEN IS FOR VILLAINY Snow White (1937) Cinderella (1950) Sleeping Beauty (1959) One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) The Little Mermaid (1989) The Lion King (1994) The Princess and the Frog (2009)

[saisonciel]

Anna May Wong by E.O. Hoppé, c. 1930

[galleryofart]

A Mother with Her Son and a Pony

Artist: Agostino Brunias (Italian, 1728-1796)

Date: circa 1775

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

[zamaaanawal]

Palestinian girls playing in the snow, Jerusalem, Palestine, 1921,

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Mina Harker's green dress with flowers in Bram Stokers Dracula in 4k

[diemelusine]

A King Charles Spaniel (c. 1866) by Édouard Manet. National Gallery of Art.

[voguefashion]

Elizabeth Taylor, Halston, Betty Ford and Liza Minnelli at Studio 54 in New York City, 1977.