Centuries Past

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[metmuseum]

Cruet stand with bottles. 1701–22. Credit line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/187732

[owl-bisop]

Patience on and elephant

[pinkstarlightcomputer]

John Everett Millais (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) The Bridesmaid Oil on panel, 1851 20.3 x 27.9 cm (7.99" x 10.98") Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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[mudwerks]

[ubu507]

wetkitty:

turnofthecentury:

mudwerks:Beautiful Century: Leon Bakst, Ida Rubinstein as Cleopatre, 1909

[ubu507]

for absoluticris

A breast cup – supposedly modeled after Helen of Troy – I forget what museum I took this in – Baltimore or DC anyway…

[ubu507]

Pompei. (Museo.)

Cadavere di donna

[centuriespast]

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[oldpaintings]

Nymphea, c.1890 by Arthur Wardle (English, 1864–1949)

[mermaidenmystic]

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[7pleiades7]

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (also known as The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve), (Detail), (c. 1615), by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 – 1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Dutch, 1568 –1625), oil on panel, 74.3 cm (29.2 in) x 114.7 cm (45.1 in), Mauritshuis, The Hague

[venustapolis]

Walkers on an Avenue (Hubert Robert, 1733 - 1808)

[7pleiades7]

Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things (1869) by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (French-born British, 1823 – 1903), oil on canvas, Private Collection

[7pleiades7]

The Awakening, (Detail), (1893), by Eugene de Blaas (Italian-Austrian, 1843 – 1931), oil on canvas, 175 cm (68.8 in) x 100 cm (39.3 in), Private Collection

[dariaendresen]

Sedlec ossuary, Kutná Hora (Czech republic).

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[littlehorrorshop]

A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922)

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

day dress, 1893 by unknown designer

this dress is made of silk, wool, velvet and lace. There is a definite influence of aesthetic dress on this dress, in the William Morris-esque pattern

this dress can be found in: the John Bright Collection

[postcard-from-the-past]

Pageant Queens of the 1923 Carnival in Valence, Dauphiné region of France

French vintage postcard

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 35, 2 septembre 1883, Paris. Toilette de dîner ou de soirée. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

La jupe se compose de deux panneaux en satin couleur saumon, s'ouvrant sur le côté et laissant voir des volants de dentelle blanche qui garnissent la jupe jusqu'en haut. Corsage et traîne en faille saumon à semis de fleurs. Le corsage décolleté est garni d'un gilet en satin saumon. La traîne est ornée d'une guirlande de fleurs de même nuance que les fleurs de la faille. Les panneaux et les volants de la jupe sont, ainsi que les manches, ornés de fleurs semblables.

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The skirt consists of two salmon-colored satin panels, opening on the side and revealing white lace ruffles that adorn the skirt to the top. Bodice and train in salmon-colored fissure with flower seedlings. The low-cut bodice is trimmed with a salmon satin waistcoat. The train is decorated with a garland of flowers of the same shade as the flowers of the fault. The panels and ruffles of the skirt are, as well as the sleeves, adorned with similar flowers.