art histories ofold

just a twenty yr old bean who has a weakness for majestic and fantastical artwork

[infected]

Elijah in the Wilderness, Frederic Leighton, created: 1877–1878

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‘florinda’ (detail) - franz xaver winterhalter (1853)

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Madame Bergeret, details (1766), François Boucher

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Roman Widow by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874 (detail)

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Detail “Venus Verticordia’ Dante Gabriel Rossetti,painted about 1863-68.

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Women in Artemisia Gentileschi’s paintings: “As long as i live, I will have control over my being.” - Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1652/53) 

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Eurydice Hurried Back to the Infernal Regions (1814 / Oil on canvas) - Henry Thomson

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“Spirit” by George Roux, 1885 

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George de Forest Brush, A Celtic Huntress, 1890

[malnedott]

gustav klimt (austrian, 1862-1918)

“the times of day” 1881 details

[sixpenceee]

By Nicola Samori

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And I will wait for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)

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DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883)

Illustration for Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, detail (1868).

Vivien and Merlin enter the woods (Illustration for Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1868).

Illustration for Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, detail (1868).

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José de Ribera, ‘Visión de San Francisco de Asis’, 1636-38

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Paintings from contemporary artist Emilio Villalba’s ‘I Don’t See’ series.

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Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Inferno.

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‘Mary Magdalene as Melancholy’ by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1622-1625

Mexico City, 2019