haul of antiques

MEMENTO HOMO QUIA PULVIS ES ET IN PULVEREM REVERTERIS (@julabot is my sideblog)

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Russian Empire,Rybinsk (1911)

[duct-tape-my-heart]

[aletheyass]

why has ‘this looks like a renaissance painting’ become such a common phrase on the internet to describe momentous, dramatically lit images that are brimming with pathos when the word they mean to say is ‘baroque’

[hotarukuro]

hope it’s more clear

[usurperss]

Artists who know how to draw armors or very detailed clothing are powerful

[usurperss]

oh to draw embroidery like Alexander Roslin does

[ashadeofpemberley]

See it’s stuff like this that makes me believe that selling your soul to the devil in exchange for talent was a real career track in the 1700s.

[psikonauti]

Takahashi Hiroaki (Japan, 1871-1945)

Shiragumo Waterfall of Nikkō ,late 1910s

Woodblock print

[thekimonogallery]

Artist unknown.  Taisho period (1912-1926), Japan

[design-is-fine]

Historic Styles of Ornament, 1898. Published by Batsford, London. With 1500 examples, 100 color plates, 75 chromolithographs. Complete book via archive.org

[kafkasapartment]

Glamour in Red, Hearst’s International Magazine cover, March 1923. Wladyslaw Theodor Benda. Mixed media on board

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Bob Richardson (born 1938)    

Hebden Bridge street in snow

[slam-european]

Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image, Gerrit van Honthorst, 1625, Saint Louis Art Museum: European Art to 1800

[sakrogoat]

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen - Judith with the Head of Holofernes

[oceano-agridulce]

[aqua-regia009]

En dröm om berg (1903) - Tyra Kleen

[arsantiquis]

George Lambert, Kirkstall Abbey

[cinemuki]

Orlando (1992) - dir. Sally Potter

Do not fade. Do not wither. Do not grow old.

[achasma]

The Deluge (detail) by Gustave Doré, c. 1866.

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Nicolas-Eustache Maurin:

Esmeralda, Phoebus et Claude Frollo

Le Rendez-vous

La Esmeralda, Claude Frollo et Gudulle

[picslart-versailles]

The Sun King by Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1665)