#head piece

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Morgan Le Fay's green red dress & headpiece in Excalibur

[that--unusual-person]

mag agent U-1E7

[galleryofart]

Industry

Artist: Platt Powell Ryder (American, 1821–1896)

Date: c. 1870's

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, United States

[portrait-paintings]

Torquato Tasso and the Two Leonores

Artist: Karl Ferdinand Sohn (German, 1805–1867)

Date: 1839

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany

Depicted People:

Torquato Tasso 

Eleonora d'Este

Leonora Sanvitale

[yours-stevie]

Wow 😍

[artemlegere]

The Bride of Abydos

Artist: James Sant (English, 1820-1916)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Department for Culture, Media and Sport, London, United Kingdom

Description

The Bride of Abydos is a poem written by Lord Byron in 1813. One of his earlier works, The Bride of Abydos is considered to be one of his "Heroic Poems", along with The Giaour, Lara, The Siege of Corinth, The Corsair and Parisina. These poems contributed to his poetic fame at the time in England.

[mythologypaintings]

The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphrodite

Artist: François-Joseph Navez (Belgian, 1787-1869)

Date: 1829

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium

Description

The story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus is a chapter in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The nymph Salmacis fell in love with Hermaphroditus, Hermes and Aphrodite’s son. Hermaphroditus rejected her but Salmacis managed to outwit him in the water. Yet again Hermaphroditus rejected her, so Salmacis prayed to the gods that she would be united with him until the end of time. They fused into a hermaphroditic creature, with male and female characteristics.

François-Joseph Navez depicts the nymph and the object of her affection just before the metamorphosis. Hermaphroditus’s reticent gesture and the passionate embrace by the infatuated nymph constitute an ingenious and elegant ballet in an almost abstract play of lines.

[royalty-nobility]

Archduchess Isabella Clara (1629-1685) in a Black Dress

Artist: Anonymous, Italian

Date: 1648

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Isabella Clara Eugenia

Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566–1633) was a powerful Infanta of Spain who ruled the Spanish Netherlands as a joint sovereign with her husband, Archduke Albert VII of Austria. Their reign is widely celebrated as a Golden Age of peace, economic flourishment, and cultural achievement.

Isabella Clara Eugenia of Austria was born in the Palace of Valsain, Segovia on 12 August 1566. She was the first surviving daughter of King Philip II of Spain and his third wife, Elisabeth of Valois.