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[imperial-russia]

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna by Timofei Neff (detail)

[unusual-suspects]

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[m-a-r-b-r-e-n-o-i-r]

Edmund Blair Leighton, Stiching the Standard (detail).

One of my beloved paintings! 

[die-rosastrasse]

Charles Edward Perugini

English (Italian born), 1839-1918

I know a maiden fair to see (details)

[lilithravencroft]

Frank Dicksee- Study of Armour

[hypnoticvamp]

Ecce Homo (detail) by Pedro de Mena

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Saint Catherine (detail), After Bernardino Luini, 1510 .

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Danaides by John William Waterhouse (1903)

[leforetenchante]

Reverse of a gold brooch, inscribed in Medieval French ‘Ours and Always at your Desire’, 1400. The Victoria & Albert Museum. Via: Erica Weiner.

[flowerytale]

Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625), Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase (detail)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Selene Thrown Down by Argus by Ferdinand Keller (1886)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Lady Godiva by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1891)

[paintingispoetry]

James Sant, "Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle", ca. 1850

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Pearl by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1894)

[auctumni]

Fausto Zonaro 

[guido-reni]

St Cecilia, 1606, Guido Reni

Medium: oil,canvas

[speciesbarocus]

Jusepe de Ribera - The Sense of Touch.