History With some Cake

A deliciously filled blog of eye appeasing culture, delectable artwork, vast libraries, and castles. All of it opulence of every era, with occasionally a little bit of cake 🍰

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EMILIA SCHULE as Marie Antoinette in marie-antoinette (x9)

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sometimes you just have to watch a show for the pretty hair and costumes

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Vegan Tiramisu Sheet Cake

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Jean-Baptiste Santerre, Maria Adelaide von Savoyen detail, 1709

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Genoise Sponge Cake Recipe

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Reflection, c. 2020 Daniel F. Gerhartz (American, born 1965)

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Édouard Bisson

French, 1856-1939

Les messagères de l'Amour (detail)

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Art history meme (x) - 2/4 colours - lilac (for dany)

Violets, sweet violets by John William Godward | Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog by Claude Monet | The Feathered Fan by Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Art by Yoshitaka Amano from his artbook  Le Roi De La Lune | Flora by Louise Abbéma 

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Chateau Chenonceau, FRANCE

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art history meme - (1/6) themes, series or subjects

Gowns

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Lilac Honey Cake

From Homespun Seasonal Living

Prep Time: 15 minutes - Cook Time: 40 minutes - Total Time: 55 minutes

Ingredients

½ Cup Salted Butter, softened

¼ Cup Sugar

½ Cup Lilac Blossoms, packed tightly

2 Eggs

2 teaspoons Vanilla

2 ¼ Cups Unbleached, All-Purpose Flour

1 Tablespoon Baking Powder

½ Cup Buttermilk

½ Cup Honey

For full directions, follow the link above!

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The Siren (1901), by J.W. Waterhouse

Compared to “Ulysses and the Sirens” painted in 1891, the siren shown here is a much more humanlike creature.  Only at the very end of her legs some scales are visible to show that she actually belongs to the sea.  The shipwrecked sailor does not believe his eyes when he sees the naked figure playing the lyre, but the fear for her power prevails on his face.

This work is the last in a series where Waterhouse combined the themes of death, sex and sea.  Earlier works include Circe Invidiosa (1892), Danaë (1892), The Merman (ca.1892) and A Mermaid (ca.1895).

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Dawn, 1907

Edmund Hodgson Smart

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No, you are not imagining things. This is not a Betsey Johnson dress somehow masquerading as a historical garment. There was no time travel. This is a real gown from the mid(ish) 1700s made of Spitalfields silk.

Like many extant gowns, the secret is in the stitching. We know a few things about this dress due to its construction. 1) it was remade to fit changing aesthetics, likely during the same century and 2) it's a selvedge dress, meaning that unlike mantuas, it's made of pieced together silk (most expertly done) to show the appearance of an undisturbed piece of fabric.

The bright, floral brocade pattern is not at all uncommon, as the motifs of this era were certainly vivid in every sense. I particularly love the contrasting deep brown of the stomacher with the rest of the dress. It's relatively simple in terms of the times, but I adore it!

From Cora Ginsburg.

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Koi Pond Mousse Cake by petrichoro !

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Details in Blue

Infanta Isabel de Bourbon, 1866, by Vicente Palmaroli y Gonzalez.

Madame Charles Simon Favart, 1757, by François-Hubert Drouais.

Marie-Thérèse de Savoie, 1775, by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty.

Princesse de Broglie, 1853, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

Admiring the Gift, by Pio Ricci.

Portrait de Philomena Lynch, 1900’s, by Paul Jobert.

Marie-Antoinette with the Rose, 1783, by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Anne Streatfeild, 1756, by Arthur Devis.

María Isabel Álvarez y Montes, 1868, by Federico Madrazo.

Portrait of Amalia de Llano, 1853, by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz.

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Details of The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, by Paul Delaroche (1797-1856)

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What is happening tho????

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Well, @weirdglitterypotato (great url btw) I shall tell you. The woman in this painting is Lady Jane Grey (1536/1537-1554), who is also given the nick-name of ‘The Nine-Day Queen,’ because - well - she only reigned for nine days. It was on the 10th of July, 1553 that she was proclaimed the Queen of England - and then deposed nine days later, only to be executed in 1554. In some English politics, religion, and being a relative of the late Edward Vl, and her father was a part of a rebellion, Jane and her family were eventually executed on counts of treason.

Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) has depicted, here, the last moments of Lady Jane Grey. Some elements are off, being that Delaroche painted this hundreds of years after Jane’s death, but I imagine the tragedy felt from seeing this painting was also felt at Jane’s time.

You can see Jane being directed, gently, to the execution block by Sir John Brydges, Lieutenant of the Tower. Delaroche has left no detail out, as the straw below her has a purpose too - to soak up the blood.

In the back there are women - presumably Jane’s ladies-in-waiting - who are hit with terrible grief. On the right-hand side is the executioner, who reveals no emotion but just looks on as a man about to do his job.

Apparently Jane gave a speech before her death, being:

“Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. The fact, indeed, against the Queen’s highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me: but touching the procurement and desire thereof by me or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency, before God, and the face of you, good Christian people, this day.”