the Inspiration Blog

Art maker. She/her. 34. Wine lover. Swordwoman. history nerd. Tired queer. Toronto.

[keightmaclean]

Hey, I'm Keight! I'm a Toronto based artist and giant nerd! I love history, games, art, reenacting, swords (and related martial arts), food and wine and smutty books 🖤

[beatricecenci]

Carlo Dolci (Italian, 1616-1686)

Santa Lucia

[keightmaclean]

Latest painting, completed in a heatwave. 37 degrees, feels like 47 with the humidex. The air is soup.

[beatricecenci]

Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792)

Continence of Scipio

[ducissatenebrarum]

Visión de Don Miguel de Mañara, unknown artist, ca. 17th century, Spain, from the collections of churches and monasteries of Toledo.

Don Miguel de Mañara was a 17th-century Sevillian nobleman, libertine, and ultimately, Christian convert. Following the death of his wife, he suffered a spiritual crisis during which he experienced a series of macabre visions,some depicted in art, including a woman appearing to be his wife who transformed into a skeleton.

[ducissatenebrarum]

Allegory of the Blood of Christ as Source of Salvation, ca. 1771-85.

[dariaendresen]

Sedlec ossuary, Kutná Hora (Czech republic).

Own 

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1827-1828 Thomas Lawrence - Portrait of Lady Sarah Ingestre

(Rhode Island School of Design Museum)

[keightmaclean]

Excited for this silly little guy to come out of the glaze firing!

[rosieandthemoon]

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[oldpaintings]

Lucretia by Cesare Dandini (Italian, 1596--1657)

[armthearmour]

A fabulous blackened and gilt Gorget bearing the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece made for King Philip II of Spain, attributed to Kolman Helmschmid,

Weight: 2.9 lbs/1310 g

Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1549-1553, housed at the Real Armería, Madrid.

[fanfanlemoko]

Dalle funéraire du chevalier Burchard von Steinberg, décédé en 1379.

Nuremberg, en Allemagne.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Medieval fresco paintings that covered the apse of Sant Miquel d'Engolasters church in Les Escaldes, Andorra. Painted around the year 1160 by the circle of the Master of Santa Coloma d'Andorra, in Catalan Romanesque style.

National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

[ilcontephotography]

The Piscina Mirabilis, built under Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD). It's the biggest known cistern built by ancient Romans (15 metres high, 70 metres long and 25 metres wide), entirely dug out of the tuff hill.

Bacoli, Italy.

© Roberto Conte (2021)

[keightmaclean]

detail of Victoire, Duchess de Nemours by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

[livingtheitaliandream]

Light of Florence appreciation post