history and all that jazz

for those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it [I follow from @ tommeholland!]

[kafkasapartment]

Children in the Louvre, Paris, 1957. John Gutmann. Gelatin silver print

[wehadfacesthen]

Billie Holiday performing in New York, 1947, photo by Herman Leonard

[wehadfacesthen]

A soldier’s farewell at Penn Station, New York, 1943, photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE magazine

[wehadfacesthen]

Paris after the Liberation, 1944, photo by Lee Miller

[worldhistoryfacts]

The first page of the top secret proposal by Lavrentiy Beria to kill members of the Polish military and police in 1940. The proposal is approved by the signatures of Stalin, Molotov, and four other high Soviet officials. Approximately 22,000 people were killed in this massacre, many of them in the Katyn Forest. The Soviet Union lied about the massacre and blamed the Nazis until 1990, when the government officially admitted its role in the deaths.

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[ofprincessesandqueens]

♕  My Favourite Tiaras → The Nizam of Hyderabad Tiara

One of the weddings presents Queen Elizabeth II received on her wedding day in 1947 was this tiara and a necklace from the Nizam of Hyderabad. It was made by Cartier with a design inspired by english roses. The three roses could also be used as brooches. In the end, Elizabeth dismantled this tiara to make the Burmese Ruby Tiara. The necklace and the brooches are stil in use. (x)

[ephemeral-elegance]

Robe a la Polonaise, ca. 1774-93

via The Met

[historicaldress]

BEADED NET EVENING DRESS, c. 1914

Black net over silk having sleeveless bodice with wide strap, decorated in black beads and bugles, the net backed in black lace, bodice back having fishtail points with elaborate beaded tassels, black satin skirt having a net overlay with a tambour-embroidered stripe of metallic gold thread, edged in clear beaded drops, the upper skirt having a yoke of metallic lace with cream tambour embroidery and gold tinsel, detached petersham with Stern Brothers label.

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Evening dress.

Date: 1850–52

Culture: North American

Medium: Silk

[ofprincessesandqueens]

get to know me meme (royalist edition): royal castles/palaces | | Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles was the principal royal residence of France from 1682 under Louis XIV until the start of the French Revolution in 1789 under Louis XVI. It is located in the department of Yvelines, in the region of Île-de-France, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of the centre of Paris. The palace is now a Monument historique and UNESCO World Heritage site. Notable, especially, for the ceremonial Hall of Mirrors, the jewel-like Royal Opera, and the royal apartments; for the more intimate royal residences, the Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon located within the park; the small rustic Hameau (Hamlet) created for Marie Antoinette; and the vast Gardens of Versailles with fountains, canals, and geometric flower beds and groves, laid out by André le Nôtre. The Palace was stripped of all its furnishings after the French Revolution, but many pieces have been returned and many of the palace rooms have been restored. In 2017 the Palace of Versailles received 7,700,000 visitors, making it the second-most visited monument in the Île-de-France region, just behind the Louvre and ahead of the Eiffel Tower.

[punlovsin]

Firenze

1955-60

[irisharchaeology]

17th century wall plaque at 12 High Street, Galway city. Dated 1615 it bears the inscription ‘Ave Maria Gracia’ and the initials 'AF’ & 'MF. The coat of arms suggests that it may commemorate a marriage between members of the Ffrench & Ffont families, two of the 'Tribes of Galway’

[historicaltimes]

Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn c.1940

via reddit

[mushi-and-junior]

art movement moodboards: Pre-Raphaelite (requested by anonymous)

the members of the pre-raphaelite brotherhood believed the classical poses and elegant compositions of raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art, hence the name “pre-raphaelite.” the brotherhood sought a return to the abundant detail, intense colours, and complex compositions of quattrocento italian art

[katiemcgrath]

History & favourites: battles

*Amiens: Was British & French lead but included soldiers from Canada and Australia **Waterloo: The 7th coalition: the United Kingdom, Prussia, Netherlands, Hanover, Nassau and Brunswick

[goldentailedmermaids]

Era Moodboard: Ancient Egypt

3150 BC - 750 BC || A three thousand of years era divided into seven parts. More than 30 dynasties ruled over the Empire untited by Namer, the first pharao of the first dynasty who united High and Low Egypt. This troubled era reached its end with Egypt’s conquest by Alexander the great and later became the Macedonian Egypt, the Ptolemaic Egypt and was later conquered by the Roman Empire.

[effulgentpoet]

favorite art movements:

RENAISSANCE

Renaissance art marks a cultural rebirth at the close of the Middle Ages and rise of the Modern world. One of the distinguishing features of Renaissance art was its development of highly realistic linear perspective. Giotto di Bondone) is credited with first treating a painting as a window into space, but it was not until the demonstrations of architect Filippo Brunelleschi and the subsequent writings of Leon Battista Alberti that perspective was formalized as an artistic technique. The development of perspective was part of a wider trend towards realism in the arts. Painters developed other techniques, studying light, shadow, and, famously in the case of Leonardo da Vinci, human anatomy. Underlying these changes in artistic method was a renewed desire to depict the beauty of nature and to unravel the axioms of aesthetics, with the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael representing artistic pinnacles that were much imitated by other artists.