Ars longa vita brevis

Art for all it's worth.

[classic-art]

The Old Mill

Albert Bierstadt, 1855

[classic-art]

The Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the Arms of François I

François-Guillaume Ménageot, c. 1781

[fabra-ars]

Ørnulf Opdahl

[classic-art]

A Roman Beauty in the Baths

Emile Eisman-Semenowsky

[surrealappeal]

Eva Gonzales, Le Chignon, ca. 1870.

[heaveninawildflower]

1) Wood Anemone, Sharp-lobed Hepatica, Spring Beauty, Large-flowered Bellwort

2) Large White Trillium, Rock Columbine, Yellow Adder’s Tongue

3) Marsh Marigold, Wild Lupine

4) Wood Geranium, Purple Trillium, Squirrel Corn, Star Flower

5) Scarlet Painted Cup, Showy Orchis, Indian Turnip, Coneflower

6) Painted Trillium, Wild Lily of the Valley, Flowering Wintergreen

7) Arrow-head, Great Lobelia, Cardinal Flower

8) False Foxglove, Turtlehead, Dragonhead

9) Showy Lady’s Slipper, Harebell, Wild Orange Lily

10) Pitcher Plant.

Illustrations taken from ‘Studies of Plant Life in Canada’ by Catharine Parr Traill.

Published 1906 by William Briggs.

http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/traill-plantlife/traill-plantlife-00-h-dir/traill-plantlife-00-h.html#PlateXIV

[softwaring]

Untitled by Andreas Mass

[tolkienismyreligion]

Rohan concept sketches Alan Lee

[chadmsirois]

Pomegranates, Majorca, John Singer Sargent, 1908

[met-cloisters]

Decorative Mount, The Cloisters

Medium: Walrus ivory (or whale tooth)

The Cloisters Collection, 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/683963

[art-is-art-is-art]

Lilacs, Kyriak Kostandi

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 John Singer Sargent

[laclefdescoeurs]

Off Custom House, London, 1927, Charles Edward Dixon

[classic-art]

The Doctor

Sir Luke Fildes, c. 1891

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