My Secret Garden

An old soul trapped in the XXI Century. My soul wanders in enchanted libraries. Art History. Beauty. Paris. London. Love.

[helloohart]

Caravaggio living paintings by Ludovica Rambelli Theater

[johnthestitcher]

This never ceases to amaze me, no matter how many times I’ve seen it.

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Powers of thunder, fire, water, darkness, light and air. There are many ways to ponder your orb. Edits 1,3.

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Rather unusual sky phenomenons depicted in The Book of Miracles, ca. 1552, by an unknown author-ess. And forgive me but a falling star with a very bad exhaust pipe, people fighting for the territory of a cloud dissolving into rain the next day, and three ovaries playing jump rope with a death rainbow.

[detailedart]

Detail (#1) of Salomé (1909), by Paul Antoine de la Boulaye.

[detailedart]

Detail: The Water Spirit, by Karl Schweninger (1818–1887).

[rostii]

Aganetha Dyck, The Working Life of Bees: The Sixth Sense, 2008, Beeswax, Honeycomb, Plexiglas Model Farmhouse. Built By Greg Vettel, 13 x 14 x 24 inches. Collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art. In collaboration with a natural beehive; Master Beekeeper, Bob Larimore of Larimore, ND; and beginning beekeeper, Dean Wallace of Lakota, ND.

[sioxh]

Ana Mendieta, Silueta Series, 1973-1978

[speciesbarocus]

Adriaen Isenbrant (circle of) - Triptych of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, with Sts. Catherine of Alexandria & Barbara (c. 1520). Detail.

[jeannepompadour]

Illustrations of Italian costumes from “Album Amicorum of a German Soldier” or drawings of a German soldier on his visit to Italy in 1595;

Milanese gentlewoman, a Duchess and a widow

[theladyintweed]

Mary Magdalene by the Master of the Parrot (second quarter of the 16th century)

Sotheby’s

[achasma]

The Witches Sabbath (detail) by Frans Francken II, 1607.

[porcelainapparition]

Edgar Maxence, The Soul of the Forest (1898)

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Melancholy, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532

[galina]

The V&A café is the best museum café ever

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[hildegardavon]

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Kassandra / Athena

Aquamarine intaglio of Kassandra kneeling by the Palladion, or the statue of Athena at Troy,  Greek, late Hellenistic Period, late 1st century B.C., 2,3 cm 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston               Inv. 27.707

Intaglio. Double-convex. Kassandra, facing left and keeling on a faint ground line, looks down while grasping a statuette of armed Athena (the Trojan Palladion) with her right hand, and holding a branch in her left hand. Kassandra is nude except for a swath of drapery falling from her right shoulder over her left thigh. Her legs and head are shown in profile; her torso is rendered in three-quarters view. She bends her head forward toward the statuette, causing her hair fall to her neck and around her face; she wears a laurel wreath. The statuette is situated on a separate ground line, likely the top lip of a plinth, holding an undecorated shield and wearing a crested helmet.

[arthistorycq]

Romanian medieval documents compiled in digital database

Over 55,000 medieval documents have been digitized and compiled in the first such database in the country, according to Digi24.ro.

[hadrian6]

Venus Reclining on a Sea Monster with Cupid.  1785-87.

John Deare. English 1759-1798. marble relief.

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