damned enchanted

side blog for history, art, literature or anything related to the past

[oldworldinventions-blog]

Medieval Period: Executioner’s mask

(Germany)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

José Casado del Alisal (Spanish, 1832-1886) The Legend of the Monk King, 1880 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Traditionally known as The Bell of Huesca, this painting depicts one of the most terrifying events in the history of Medieval Spain. Ramiro II of Aragon decapitated all the noblemen who had dared to challenge his royal power, one by one. As he had promised to make a bell that would ring to reaffirm his power, he did so with the heads of the rebel noblemen. For the clapper, he used the head of the Archbishop responsible for the failed conspiracy. This painting shows the exact moment when the monarch shows his work to the rest of the court.

[vintage-sweden]

"Anne-Beate with equestrienne", 1917, Sweden.

[jaffababe]

Palestinian hair ornaments

Palestinian silver ornaments worn over the shoulders or hanging down the back and mixed with the hair, sometimes worn with nazars. Called "quarmal" or "karameel." Examples of it being worn below on children and Palestinian women. 19th to 20th century.

[perplexingly]

It's probably not very interesting, but, I was looking through Polish paintings and noticed a trend...

Józef Chełmoński (1849-1914)

Mieczysław Korwin Piotrowski (1869-1930)

Czesław Wasilewski (Ignacy Zygmuntowicz) (1875-1947)

Jan Karmański (1887-1958)

Wiktor Korecki (1890-1980)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) "Fatima" (1883) Oil on canvas Currently in a private collection

[hildegardavon]

Pietro Tenerani, 1789-1869

Psyche in a Feint, 1869, marble

National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Italy

Tuscan sculptor Pietro Tenerani captured Psyche fainting in this marble work of art… but it is not the only version of it that Tenerani represented. In fact, a purist at heart, Tenerani had so much compassion for Psyche in a Faint at the hand of Venus’ jealousy that he represented it in much of his work.

[deathandmysticism]

Hopi Kachina dancers, Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880

[homoidiotic]

Wooden carved figure of a Kurī (Polynesian dog) found at Moncks Cave, Aotearoa. Made of kānuka this is the only known carving of a pre-european dog. Kurī arrived in Aotearoa with the Polynesian ancestors of Māori about 700 years ago (source)

[viktor-sbor]

Mongolian armour - Huyag.

Most armour was made of hardened leather and iron, laced together onto a fabric backing, sometimes silk.

[hauntedbystorytelling]

The Radio Queen. Miss Elmira Humphreys. 22nd September, 1937. Press Association Photo (PA Photo). From : The 1930s Britain in Pictures, 2008

[hadrian6]

Orpheus. 19th.century. Henry Dasson French 1825-1896. marble.                        http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[denisebefore-blog]

Girls Rifle Team, Drexel University

nat.photo co. c.1925

[korunak]

christ in the wilderness, ivan kramskoy

[greasegunburgers]

Russian SVR agents armed with AKS-74U rifles in the Russian White House observe events below them. Russian constitutional crisis, Moscow, October 1993.

[belalugosishreds]

can't talk thinking about malcolm liepke paintings

[hadrian6]

The Wrath of Achilles. 1881. Louis Edouard Fournier. French 1857-1917. Winner Prix de Rome 1881.  oil/canvas. 

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