#1734

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Lara Croft from Tomb Raider (1996)

"I want to see what people on this webbed site think in 2026"

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Voting ended onMay 4

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which outfit would you rather wear? (1734)

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Voting ended onMar 25, 2025

context from the submitter: the painting is Portrait of Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt with His Wife Sophia Dorothea of Prussia by Antoine Pesne

submitted by @flemmboyant 💙💛

[akutagawa-daily]

Akutagawa daily 1734/★

[witch-breaker]

1, Tabula 46, Fig. 1 "Goat from Curaçao, conjoined with a little kid."

1, Plate 46, Fig. 2 "Monstrous cat from America, which is one of the young ones."

[treasuresfromthearchives]

The Collation from a set of the Italian Village Scenes

Designer: Designed by François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris)

Manufactory: Beauvais

Workshop director: André Charlemagne Charron (French, active 1754–80)

Patron: Commissioned for Boulard de Gatellier (Château de Gatellier (Loire))

designed 1734–36, woven 1762

"Images of gardens were popular in the tapestry medium from the medieval era, where the so-called mille-fleurs (thousand flowers) (see also MMA 2013.506) provided a decorative, and sometimes symbolic, setting for scenes of romance and play. Park and garden tapestries continued to enjoy popularity throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly for the decoration of more intimate chambers, where they provided a pleasant contrast with the grander subject matter of tapestries used in more formal settings. The theme enjoyed new popularity with the advent of the Rococo style during the eighteenth century, and a number of highly decorative landscape and garden series were produced in French and Netherlandish workshops during the second third of the eighteenth century. Among the most notable was the series of romantic pastorals that Boucher designed for the Beauvais workshops between 1734 and 1736 (MMA 64.165.1–.8). Known as the Fetes Italiennes, and loosely inspired by the idyllic park scenes of Antoine Watteau, this series depicted handsome gentlefolk and peasants in idealized exterior settings."

[whencyclopedia]

Voltaire

Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French author, historian, and philosopher whose thoughts on religious toleration and moderation of authoritarian power were influential during the Enlightenment. His most famous work today is the satirical Candide, which presents Voltaire's critical thoughts on other philosophers, the Catholic Church, and the French state in order to highlight the need for real solutions to everyday problems.

Early Life

François-Marie Arouet, better known by his chosen pseudonym Voltaire, was born in Paris on 21 November 1694. Françoise-Marie's father was a notary who sent him to the highly esteemed Louis-le-Grand college, then run by Jesuits. Going on to study law, Françoise-Marie's real interest was literature, and he was soon writing his own poems and plays. These early offerings were the beginning of what would turn out to be a momentous catalogue of works of all kinds by the end of Voltaire's long career.

In 1718, Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, was successfully staged, and he had his first poem, La Henriade, published to great acclaim in 1723. Voltaire might have had literary aspirations, but his fledgling career took a nosedive in 1726 when, after an argument with the Chevalier de Rohan, he was confined in the infamous Bastille prison. When he got out, Voltaire decided to broaden his horizons, and he visited first the Netherlands and then England, where he lived until 1729.

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