#ornements

[stimlanders-collection]

IT'S CHRISTMAS 4 BAD GUYZ 2!

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[camillehenri]

The sketch that turned into a drawing

[mariographique]

Sortir / To go out par Mario Castonguay

Capté à une des portes de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, France

Captured at one of the doors of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg, France

[francepittoresque]

HISTOIRE | Le château de Versailles objet du vandalisme révolutionnaire à partir de 1792 ➽ http://bit.ly/Vandalisme-Chateau-Versailles Si dès le 14 août 1792, Lefebvre, député d'Eure-et-Loir, demandait que les châteaux fussent « détruits et rasés », à la démolition du château de Versailles, jugée trop onéreuse, on préféra le pillage, rien n'étant épargné: les meubles furent vendus à l’encan, les glaces et ornements furent arrachés pour ne laisser que les murs, des projets patriotiques voyant le jour comme celui de transformer le palais en lycée et en gymnase

[dinisaure]

Martin Schongauer - The Censer (1470–1491)

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Coquillage et grappes de raisin…

[tristanbrundler]

Zora alven

Royal Academy of Fines-arts of Gent 2021

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. As wealth accumulates on his hands, his own unaided effort will not avail to sufficiently put his opulence in evidence by this method; so he installs some one to aid him, and the wife, or other women and also servants, perform vicariously the act of consumption for him. Their life of leisure becomes a performative spectacle, adorned with expensive dress, elaborate dwellings, and useless but ostentatious decorations.

All this structure of consumption rests on the base of waste. Waste of goods, waste of effort, waste of life and it becomes honorable and desirable precisely because it demonstrates an ability to waste. Ornaments and refinements, when not functionally required, serve no purpose but to signal distinction. They are not for use, but for show; and in so far as they serve no utilitarian end, they are honorable.

The Theory of the Leisure Class

[2strangecrows]

made an amongus for my mom's tree