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"The Lady of Shalapawt" by John Whiskers Waterhouse

in the olden days, two men couldn't fall in love because the brims of their hats would get in the way, but now men wear caps, which can be turned around. and they had gays in ancient greece because they didn't wear hats.

vinceaddams

But cocked hats can be turned to have the flat side in front too (even though they weren't generally worn that way) and they had those for the entire 18th century and even the late 17th!

(c. mid 18th century, The Met.)

Not to mention the somewhat earlier 17th century style of hat that's got one side folded up, and you could theoretically turn that side to the front too. (even though, again, they weren't worn that way as far as I've seen)

(Portrait of a Young Man by Jacob van der Merck, no date given but probably sometime in the second quarter of the 17th century.)

And the early 19th century cocked hats were so narrow, having 2 sides folded very far up, that you could wear them in an eminently smoochable or an impenetrably unsmoochable way depending on which direction they were pointed.

(Costume Parisien, 1802.)

(Costume Parisien, 1813.)

#fancy hats

valtsv

i hate it when someone asks me what my favorite work of art is because i can't say "the one of the woman chilling on the rocks with a dragon lying in her lap and giving off powerful big dick energy" but how else am i supposed to describe it

valtsv

this is the definition of living deliciously

normal-horoscopes

This is Dragon Resting It's Head On The Lap of a Woman by Robert Leinweber

huariqueje

Summer Guardian - Glenn Ness , 2015.

American , b. 1959 -

Oil on panel , 16 × 24 in. 40.6 × 61 cm.

goose-i-guess

Nothing amazes me more than humans’ willingness to render the beauties of their environment in perfect detail

#glenn ness #american artist #not a picture #not a pic

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Guslar (1903) by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

#guslar #nikolay belsky #nikolay bogdanov belsky

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What if a really famous painting realized she was transsexual half way through her career, would she have to like break into all the museums and make them change her name on the plaques and let her redo the signature and shit

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Wait fuck

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That should say painter not painting

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Actually, fuck it, this post is now about the Oxbow by Thomas Cole

#oxbow #thomas cole

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Mi-Young Choi (Korean, b. 1971, South Korea, based London, England) - Enlightenment, 2013, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

redlipstickresurrected

Mi-Young Choi aka Miyoung Choi aka 최미영 aka Choi Mi-Young (South Korean, b. 1971, South Korea, based London, England)Female Artists - Enlightenment, 2013, Paintings: Oil on Canvas, Private Collection

#mi young choi #choi mi young #miyoung choi #mi-young choi #korean artist

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Joe Harris and Kid West in a Shreveport, Louisiana hotel room, 9 October 1940 in a photograph by Ruby Lomax, Lomax Collection, Library of Congress.

#joe harris #kid west #photography

msmarymillspaulos

The Garden at Arles 1888

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

Dutch Artist

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Joseph Wright of Derby

English, 1734-1797

The Old Man and Death, 1773

Oil on canvas

I took a photo of this painting in a museum a while back. I reformatted and cut out the frame for you all :)

“This painting masterfully combines

Wright's ability to illustrate a literary narrative with his skill in rendering a detailed natural setting. The subject is taken from one of Aesop's fables.

An old man, exhausted by life's cares, seats himself on a riverbank and calls on Death to release him from his toil. Wright focused on the moral of the tale — that it is better to suffer than to die — by portraying the startled old man recoiling in horror and waving Death off. The artist used a bright palette and almost photographic realism to bring the fable vividly to life”

#joseph wright of derby #the old man and death

journalofanobody

Edward Hopper

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Edward Hopper 1882-1967

#edward hopper #american artist #20th century painting #american art

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Maria Magdalena by Guido Cagnacci (1601 – 1663) | Germanic warrior with helmet by Osmar Schindler (1867 – 1927)

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AnnaMaria Lindholm Rogberg

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William Mason Brown (1828-1898) "Raspberries in a Wooded Landscape" Oil on canvas Located in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

callmebliss-got-swamped

@sinnahsaint saaaaame. That many berries in such good shape, fallen on a path with no berry bush obviously nearby, and at the edge of light and shadow - at best, someone has dropped their berries. At worst…something terrible has happened to someone, just outside the frame.

AND they dropped their berries

sinnahsaint

Those and the third possibility of an unsprung trap baited with berries.

No thank you.

alpacamyhedgehog

These are the goblin fruits they warned us about

msbarrows

I find it particularly perturbing that the painting includes what appears to be a wild strawberry plant on the left, with unopened flowers. Strawberries ripen before raspberries (it’s usually generally strawberries in spring, raspberries in summer) , so where did all these out-of-season raspberries even come from!?

Definitely a trap from the fae.