beautiful art

this is a curated selection of images and words

[picturehoard]

Salem / I'm not eating this plant (2007)

[archivearchangelica]

the room where I always slept, 2007

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"IMG_0104.JPG," TONI BIGBEE (2007)

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Pipe of Freedom Artist: Thomas Stuart Smith (Scottish, 1815-1869) Date: 1869 Genre: portraiture, genre art Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 106.8 cm (42 in) high x 78.7 cm (30.9 in) wide Location: Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Stirling, Scotland, UK

Thomas Stuart Smith painted this striking portrait to celebrate the abolition of slavery in both the UK and the US. The man portrayed is enjoying a pipe at his leisure, symbolizing his freedom from enforced labor. Behind him, a yellow notice announcing a slave auction has been partially covered up by a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

[myheavymetalwings]

Cyclamen flowers, nicknamed ‘swan buds’

[muzantropic]

Vyborgsky Cinema Leningrad, 1980s

[nemfrog]

Bed history. Nouveau Larousse illustré. 1898.

The list below is based on the small printed text at the bottom of the original plate and may contain errors. Note that the numbers next to the beds aren't exactly in sequence.

Ancient bed, known as "Procrustes' bed" (after an antique bas-relief)

Greek funerary bed, in marble (Musée du Louvre)

Back of a banquet bed, taken from a cup at the British Museum

Greek nuptial bed

Roman bronze bed, found in a tomb at Corneto

Bed plated in bronze and inlaid with silver, found at Pompeii

Didon on her deathbed, from Virgil's manuscript at the Vatican

Portable bed, on a lamp found at Pompeii

Bed from the 13th century, copied from the portal of Notre-Dame de Chartres

Bed from the 12th century, after a miniature from a manuscript

Bed from the 15th century, after Viollet-le-Duc

Bed of Jeanne d'Albret, at the Château de Pau (16th century)

Bed of Vries, Flanders (16th century)

Bed from the 17th century, after Marot

Daybed in the Chinese style, by Rancon (18th century)

Bed with three backs, Turkish style (18th century)

Bed à l'impériale, with columns and iron frame, by Rancon (18th century)

Bed in the Dauphine style (18th century)

Bed in the Polish style (18th century)

Bed in the English style (18th century)

Bed in the Revolutionary style

Empire bed, by Percier

Canopied bed (modern)

Child's bed with canopy

Iron bed (modern)

Cage bed, closed

Cage bed, open

Military bed

Internet Archive

[shadowytestamentonslaught]

EXCELLENT (shall order one today)

[miamaimania]

Engineer Karen Leadlay working on analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964 — General Dynamics.

[yugovina]

Kiosk K67

Design: Saša Mächtig

[aura-eden]

Persian No.4a (1856)

Owen Jones (English, 1809 - 1874)

[miamaimania]

“Tours Aillaud Portholes ~ Paris (2023) ⊚ Where round windows slice sky from steel”

[cyborgized]

Self-Awareness by Katsuhiro Õtomo

[stone-cold-groove]

Amazing Stories magazine cover illustration detail - March 1935.

[toyastales]

Evening dress by Jeanne Paquin, 1912. FIDM Museum.

[rosieandthemoon]

Henderskelfe tiara by Cartier, 1904

[humanoidhistory]

Edersheim residence, designed by Paul Rudolph, 1970.

(Library of Congress)

[miamaimania]

“Robot” (2001) by Siobhán Hapaska