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[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1860 Silk dress (skirt and bodice) (Hungary)

(Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest)

[depsidase]

[midnightinshadow]

[roberttingle]

annoying when shows set in the medieval period have the women with thier hair just long and unstyled and out . girl go put on your wimple girl 🤦‍♀️

[elvensilk]

like there are so many fun medieval hair and headgear options, it's so boring just seeing loose beachy waves meant to appeal to 21st century beauty standards

put that hot prince in a gay little hood with an ostrich feather or so help me god

[7pleiades7]

Portrait of Maria Trip, (Detail), (c. 1639), by Rembrandt (Dutch, 1606 - 1669), oil on panel, 107 cm × 82 cm (42 in × 32 in), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

[pmamtraveller]

A collection of Moroccan doors

[roostercrowned]

DON’T become even a casual nerd about historical fashion because you’ll start looking at pseudo-medieval fantasy and going “that jacket and those breeches are 200 years apart and reflect extremely different social movements” and “oh no they were NOT making shirts like that prior to industrialization” and “a fly front? in MY ~1500s???”

[cozycoffeereads]

Ancient Roman Mosiacs

[tirodiritto]

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[aesthyr]

«The Fifth Plague of Egypt» (1800), by J. M. W. Turner

[7pleiades7]

The Birth of Venus, (detail), (c. 1485) by Sandro Botticelli (Italian, c. 1445 – 1510), tempera on canvas, 172.5 cm (67.9 in) x 278.5 cm (109.6 in), Uffizi Gallery, Florence

[ruhsal-deactivated20200416]

İstanbul'un Kubbeleri

[oldpaintings]

Allegory of Advertising, 1897 by Fernand le Quesne (French, 1856--1918)

[urgetocreate]

Oil on canvas

[7pleiades7]

A Girl with Flowers (1856) by József Borsos (Hungarian, 1821 – 1883), oil on canvas, 98 × 73 cm. (38.6 x 28.7 in.), Private Collection

[aesthyr]

Prayer Book of Queen Claude of France (Tours, 1517)

Exquisite illuminated miniature (just 5 × 7 cm) made for Queen Claude of France—whose maids of honour included Anne Boleyn—small enough to fit in an ungloved hand, yet containing 100 scenes from the lives of Christ, the Virgin, the apostles and the saints.

[giving-poems-away-deactivated20]

Cat Among the Fairies, by John Anster Fitzgerald

[aesthyr]

«Anna Passini on the balcony of Palazzo Priuli in Venice», by Ludwig Johann Passini (1832-1903)

[aesthyr]

BLUE Giotto