[starrycat25]

[porcelainapparition]

Collins, Mississippi

built in 1900

[ameliecozy]

Instagram: co.nfused

[heaveninawildflower]

‘Bees with Honeycomb’ (1881). Wallpaper fragment by Candace Wheeler (American,1827–1923).

Image and text courtesy The Met.

[artist-lorrain]

Embarkation of St. Paula Romana at Ostia, 1638, Claude Lorrain

Medium: oil,canvas

[pintoras]

Luise Begas-Parmentier (German / Austrian, 1850 or 1843 - 1920): Scene from Mirabell Park (via Wikimedia Commons)

[macrolit]

[macrolit]

The Master and Margarita (Penguin Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition), Mikhail Bulgakov (b. 15 May 1891)

[giovanni-battista-tiepolo]

Detail of Dido, from Aeneid Presents Cupid, Disguised as Ascanius, to Dido, 1757, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Medium: fresco

[aqua-regia009]

Death as general rides a horse on a battlefield (1911) by Edgar Bundy

[artist-george-harvey]

Two Covenanters, 1830, George Harvey

[ameliecozy]

Instagram: thenovelacademy

[giovanni-battista-tiepolo]

The Marriage of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Beatrice of Burgundy, 1751, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Medium: fresco

https://www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battista-tiepolo/the-marriage-of-the-emperor-frederick-barbarossa-to-beatrice-of-burgundy-1751

[atouchhereandthere]

“The Library, at Dunham Massey,England, displays an orrery under a glass dome. This is an old Georgian house which is under the auspices of the British National Trust for Historic Buildings.”

An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system, or of just the sun, earth, and moon, used to represent their relative positions and motions.

[klassizismus]

Portrait detail: Sarah Trimmer, 1798, by Henry Howard (British, 1769-1847)

[georgiansuggestion]

reveal the faults and misfortunes of the world, to the ruin of public fame and disturbance of private happiness

[met-drawings-prints]

Portrait of J.-B. de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Drawings and Prints

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949 Size: 6 5/8 x 4 5/8in. (16.9 x 11.7cm) Medium: Brush and brown wash over graphite underdrawing.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/334829

[jeannepompadour]

Bust of a Lady (possibly Fanny Coleman) by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1872