All Foxes are red

Art historian. Space and aviation lover. Dreamer. My name is Lena, I live in Moscow and I love art, Italy and the Doctor) Thank you for visiting. I do not own any of the pics unless stated otherwise.

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Blessed Damozel

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833 - 1898)

Date: c. 1856-1861

Medium: Watercolor, gouache, and shell gold on paper mounted on canvas

Collection: Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, United States

[artemlegere]

The Twelve Princesses

Artist: Gustave-Max Stevens (Belgian, 1871-1946)

Date: 1899

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: M.S. Raw Antiques, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

The fairy tale "The Twelve Princesses," also called "The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces", tells the story of twelve sisters who are kept locked up in their bedroom every night by their father, the king. Despite this, the king finds his daughters’ shoes “danced to pieces” every morning when he releases them. He presents a challenge to his kingdom: “Whoever could discover where they went dancing each night could choose one of them for his wife and become king after his death.” After many before him fail, a man accepts the challenge and, with the help of an invisibility cloak, discovers the sisters travel to a magical underground realm where they attend a lavish ball every evening.

Stevens chooses to depict the moment of the sisters' escape. They adorn themselves in their finest gowns and jewels, with each princess dressed more extravagantly than the last.

[orrinivalis]

the ridge

[die-rosastrasse]

Postcards from Italy part I. 🍂✨

Venice / Milan / Florence / Como

October 2025

[whenthegoldrays]

Georges Rochegrosse, Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (The Knight of the Flowers) (detail) (1894), oil on canvas

[dailyclassicart]

Antonietta Brandeis - "Porta della Carta" (1886)

[prunelya]

Lea O'Connell

Le Grand Hôtel Campo del Fiori abandonné à Varèse, en Italie, construit en 1912.

[another2bohemians]

[robert-hadley]

Sissinghurst, Kent. In the Night Garden. The World of Interiors, July 2023. Photo - Nikolai von Bismarck

[a-little-bit-pre-raphaelite]

Undine Lost in the Danube, 1909, Arthur Rackham

Dream Land, illustration to the poem by Christina Rossetti, c.1910, Florence Harrison

[rainbow-taishi]

Renaissance artists want to draw bishies and chibi angel fanarts haha

[wolfvirus]

Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705), "St. Michael in The Fall of the Rebel Angels" 1666 + detail.

[koredzas]

Baldassarre di Biagio - Madonna and Child with Saint Anne. Detail. 1471

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Tobias and the Angel - Andrea del Verrocchio, c. 1470-1480.

[pusluktalaratlasi]

the dreamers, 2003

[koredzas]

Sante d’Apollonio del Celandro - Saint Bernardino Curing Nicola di Lorenzo da Prato, attacked by a Bull. Detail. 1473

[rubenista]

Fra Angelico, The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin (detail), 1424-1434. Tempera with oil glazes and gold on panel, 61.8 x 38.3 cm. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.