the gentle branch

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[suchamiracle-does-exist]

Kreuzzug des Weibes (1926, dir. Martin Berger)

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[krasna-devica]

Snowy Winter in St. Petersburg

[lillithblackwell]

“Hand of a Pianist” Auguste Rodin

[barcarole]

St. Barbara (unfinished), Jan van Eyck, 1437.

[ngpopgun]

Violets by Heinrich Kuhn, one of the forefathers of fine art photography, the movement that helped photography to establish itself as an art on its own. His photographs closely resemble Impressionist paintings, with their frequent use of soft lighting and focus.

[met-american-decor]

Pocket bottle via American Decorative Arts

Medium: Blown, pattern-molded glass

Rogers Fund, 1936 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/6602

[met-photos]

[Two Young Women at Window] by Andrei Osipovich Karelin via The Met’s Photography Department

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/285989

[met-asian]

清 玉雕麒麟教子|Fantastic animal and cub via Asian Art

Medium: Jade (nephrite)

Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44246

[met-photos]

[Leaf] by William Henry Fox Talbot via The Met’s Photography Department

Medium: Photogenic drawing negative

Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/286724

[dame-de-pique]

Robert Walrond - On the beach, Takapuna, 1913

[fuckyeahvintageillustration]

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted (today called Kelmscott Chaucer) illustrated and decorated by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris . Published 1886 by Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, London.

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[dame-de-pique]

Hans Rudolphi - Herbstmorgen im Buchenwald, 1920s

[jiritrnkapuppetmaster]

Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty (1990)

Director:Kihachiro Kawamoto

[drakontomalloi]

Anonymous artist - Silhouette Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. 1820

[kansassire]

Každý mladý muž aka Every Young Man, 1965, Pavel Juracek

[erinfeinblatt]

It’s been a dry year….Carrizo Plain National Monument.