Centuries Past

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[history-of-fashion]

1804 Antoine-Jean Gros - Portrait of Jacques Amalric

(Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris)

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the Rhinemaidens of the first “Ring”

Credit…Getty Images, Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuth Festival, via European Pressphoto Agency

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Hermann Winkelmann and Amalie Materna in the first “Parsifal” at Bayreuth in 1882

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Japanese vintage postcard

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: "The Leopard Hunter. Engraved by R. A. Artlett. From the sculpture by Professor Jerichau." From The Masterpieces of European Art By P. T. Sandhurst and James Stothert, Illustrated with Numerous Engravings on Wood and One Hundred and One Engravings on Steel from the Original Paintings or Sculptures. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie Publishers, n.d.

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Anastasia Reilly des Ziegfeld Girls photographiée par Strauss Peyton, 1920's.

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Anastasia Reilly des Ziegfeld Girls photographiée par Strauss Peyton, 1920's.

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"Extraordinary feats of surf swimming by Sandwich Islanders." Marvelous wonders of the whole world. 1886.

Internet Archive

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Jacques Henri Lartigue Bibi, 1920 autochrome

[metmuseum]

Snuff Bottle. . Credit line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/41404

[meisterdrucke]

Wassily Kandinsky painted “Composition No. 224” in 1920 while living in post-revolutionary Moscow. Around him artists argued that abstraction had no place in the new world. Kandinsky disagreed.

Bold bands of yellow pink and blue cross the canvas while geometric forms meet softer organic shapes. For Kandinsky every color carried its own emotional force making the painting feel less like an image and more like music without sound.

Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

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Postcard designed by Fritzi Berger

Credit…The Jewish Museum, New York

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Felice Rix’s “Purpurnelke,” 1924, textile sample, printed plain weave silk. Credit…Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna and The Jewish Museum, New York

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Model in a Wiener Werkstätte dress designed by Heddi Hirsch, circa 1919 Credit…Brandstaetter Images/Sammlung Hubmann; via the Jewish Museum, New York

[postcard-from-the-past]

Women from Le Morne-des-Esses making Carib baskets, Martinique

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1905 to Le Mans, France

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Royal funeral rites from medieval manuscripts

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Fer-de-reliure de la "Compagnie des Confrères de la mort" — Clovis Eve (1586)