Miss Starry Eyed

I am interested in researching the strange, ultra girly, hypocritical, controversial, world of Aristasia, and I post my findings on Tellurian-in-Aristasia. I would personally like to learn more about Filianism as well. I would be more than happy to talk about either with you. On this blog I just post aesthetic things I like or things I am interested in, you know, the usual main blog fare.

[bordado-de-lujo]

[art1for2the3masses]

Elégante aux colliers (Elegant Lady with Necklaces), executed in 1922 by the French artist Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889–1962)

[cuties-in-codices]

16th c. spectacular fireworks machines

miniatures from a richly illustrated manuscript of friedrich meyer's büchsenmeister- und feuerwerksbuch, a book on gunsmithing and the pyrotechnical arts for entertainment as well as military purposes. produced in strasbourg (?), 1594

source: Munich, BSB, Cgm 8143, ff. 143r, 135v-136r, and 145r

on the culture of early modern fireworks spectacles see, among others, kevin salatino: incendiary art: the representation of fireworks in early modern europe (1997) [link to pdf]

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 32, 11 août 1862, Paris. L'été. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

[nemfrog]

So called "ancient Egyptian" dream chart. Beecham-Veno book on fortune telling. 1930.

Internet Archive

[naldibutnice]

Back to the “Sixties” by Nell Brinkley, 1913

[enchantedbook]

'Stag meeting a Unicorn'. Historical artwork from 'The Book of Lambspring', (1749) edition, showing a meeting between a stag and a unicorn in a forest clearing. In alchemical tradition, the stag sumbolises the Sun and the Unicorn represents the Moon - a union of opposites, harmony of energies.

[didoofcarthage]

A Sacrifice by Léon Davent after Francesco Primaticcio

French, 1540-1546

etching

Metropolitan Museum of Art

[publicdomainreview]

Death criers from the 17th century.

Illustrations from Richard Davey’s A History of Mourning (1890), which you can read here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-history-of-mourning-1890

[nemfrog]

Saturn's rings and moons. Our Wonder World A Library Of Knowledge. 1930.

Internet Archive

[simena]

Josephine E. Bradstreet (detail)

[random-brushstrokes]

Rudolf Schlichter - Bouille-Bouille (Cat Sleeping), 1953

[thedeadleafs]

Francisco Javier Gosé i Rovira, "Un loup en cage", 1913

Costume de "Maya" par Worth

[archivalwork]

Bobbin Lace Towel End Russian, Orel province c. 17-1800s Cotton or linen bobbin motifs show plant and animal forms in plain weave outlined with gimp (heavy cord); applied silk (est.) ribbon; overall: 30 x 39 cm

[bugshroom]

Antique Czech Glass Charms

(c. 1890s-1930s)

[thedeadleafs]

Mlle Santory in Louise

French postcard by Ed. C. Jeangette, Paris. Mlle Santory as La Muse in the opera 'Louise' by Gustave Charpentier. Performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1900. The postcard was sent by mail in 1905.

[postcard-from-the-past]

French vintage postcard

[hildegardavon]

Jean-Baptiste Goy, 1666-1738

Cléopâtre mourant, n/d, marble

Le Château de Versailles, France Inv. MR 132