Lost in the Renaissance

Things that inspire me, amaze me, fascinate me, intrigue me, and delight me. This is my virtual scrapbook to keep them all in. Everything related to books and literature can be found on my other blog, For the Love of Books. The images are not my own, but I try to list sources and give credit wherever possible. If you're the copyright owner of an image featured here and want me to take it down, just let me know and I will.

[theshipthatflew]

Frederick H. Evans (English, 1853-1943), Maison Jeanne d’Arc, Rouen, 1900s, Platinum print

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We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers (via redwoodcollective)

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Crystallised Minerals by Alexandre-Isidore Leroy de Barde, 1813.

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Drawing of Marie Antoinette, about 1785, ink and color on paper

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Guh…

Pretties! I wish this artist drew a million pictures!

[a-l-ancien-regime]

An unrealized project for a garden pavilion at Trianon designed for Marie-Antoinette. A bold, light-hearted, theatrical pastiche, from Architectural Watercolors by Andrew Zega & Bernd H. Dams, Paris, France

[lifetakeslemons]

Image: The Lady on the Horse - Alfred Kubin (1901)

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Pierre-Auguste Cot,Portrait of a lady,1879,detail.

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A Foggy Day 

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Versailles inside the courtyard!

[waitingforteaagain]

(via Welcome to Sweet Home Style on we heart it / visual bookmark #13739292)

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Golden Age, c. 1530

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SUBMISSION: Bookbinding material by Grégoire Vigneron www.autourde.be