starless eyes, for heaven's sake

esther, she/her, twenty-six, denver 🌿 my ao3

[neapolis-neapolis]

Apollo e le Muse (metà I sec.), dalla Villa dei Triclini - Località Moregine, Parco archeologico di Pompei, Napoli.

[mia-paintings]

Portrait of Catherine Coustard, Marquise of Castelnau, Wife of Charles-Léonor Aubry with Her Son Léonor, Nicolas de Largillière, c. 1700, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

Portrait. Madame Aubry wears an ultramarine blue velvet dress, cloak lined with flowered brocade and a bodice of silver lamé with lace and rose ribbon. Her hand touches a whippet which may have belonged to the artist as it appears in other portraits. Her hair is styled à la Fontanges. She married into a family from Tours and later became the Marquise de Castelnau in the Berry region near Bourges. Catherine Coustard (1673–1728), who came from a family of well-to-do cloth merchants in Paris, married into the Aubry family of wealthy middle-class civil servants and statesmen from Tours. Seated, smiling, with her son leaning across her lap, she’s the picture of contentment. Her fortunes, always good, had just improved at the time this portrait was painted. Her father-in-law, after serving twenty years as secretary to the king, had recently been made a nobleman, a great step upward in family prestige that this picture commemorates. Size: 53 ¼ x 40 ¾ in. (135.26 x 103.51 cm) (sight) 70 ½ x 58 x 5 in. (179.07 x 147.32 x 12.7 cm) (outer frame) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2487/

[artemisia-gentileschi-art]

Danae, 1612, Artemisia Gentileschi

Medium: oil

[awsugar]

[artist-caravaggio]

Saint Jerome Writing, 1605, Caravaggio

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/saint-jerome-writing

[harvard-art-museums-photography]

Untitled (postmortem portrait of infant with flowers), J.H. Whitehurst Galleries, c. 1855, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund for Photographs Size: image: 6.3 x 8.4 cm (2 ½ x 3 5/16 in.) plate, sight: 8.3 x 10.7 cm (3 ¼ x 4 3/16 in.) Medium: Hand-colored quarter-plate daguerreotype

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/49758

[paolo-veronese]

Martyrdom of St Justina, 1556, Paolo Veronese

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/paolo-veronese/martyrdom-of-st-justina-1556

[artist-tintoretto]

The Martyrdom of St Paul, 1556, Tintoretto

Medium: oil,canvas

[lingly]

[galleryofunknowns]

Philippe Mercier (b.1689 - d.1760), ‘A Girl Holding a Cat’, about 1750, French, oil on canvas, currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

[cma-european-art]

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Aeltje Dircksdr. Pater, Frans Hals , 1638, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and Sculpture

Some portraits like that of Tieleman Roosterman (in the middle of this wall) display the bravura strokes we associate with Hals, while this work shows him experimenting with tighter handling. Hals often painted “wet-into-wet,” not allowing the paint to dry before applying additional layers. In the figure’s hairline, blended strokes create convincing strands of hair that seem to issue from her forehead. Hals drags layers of paint around her left eye to create fleshy contours as she raises her brow to catch our attention. That active engagement with the spectator animates the woman, who seems to be caught in a moment rather than posed. Size: Framed: 82 x 67 x 6.5 cm (32 5/16 x 26 3/8 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 66.5 x 52.3 cm (26 3/16 x 20 9/16 in.) Medium: oil on canvas

https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.137

[die-rosastrasse]

I saw so many white roses today 🤍🌼

[curiouscatalog]

From: Maund, B. (Benjamin), 1790-1863. The botanic garden. London : George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1878

SB407 .M45 1878 vol. 2

[catshapedcoffin]

[macrolit]

A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway. First U.S. Edition. Grosset and Dunlap, 1929

[milknhoneyvalley]

[lehappybest]