A Ballad Of Life

Hello, i'm Emelie, I'm very fond of art, I started this blog for myself, to keep hold of all the paintings I find touching or just extremely pretty. I particularly like pre-raphaelism and the victorian and edwardian eras. You look like thunder.

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Lindsey taking a selfie whilst walking on the Moschino catwalk. Iconic.

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“Mercy: Saint Bartholomew’s Day, 1572”, 1886, John Everett Millais.

“In a gloomy interior, a man wearing a white armband, rosary beads around his neck, a crucifix fixed upon the brim of his hat and with his sword unsheathed, prepares himself for bloodshed. In the Christian spirit of forgiveness a nun begs for mercy on behalf of the hapless Protestants, but the man pulls her arm away and moves to follow the call to arms indicated by the friar who beckons from the open doorway. The passion flowers and roses placed in the foreground are overblown and withered; the passion flower was a symbol for the suffering of Christ and was often used in Victorian art to indicate a doomed love affair. Here, the wilting flowers indicate that the pious fervour of the Catholic will have a tragic end.” (From Robert Upstone’s excellent The Pre-Raphaelite Dream).

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Northern Landscape - Lev Lagorio

1872

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The Rowan Tree Natalia Goncharova 1907-1908

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Art history meme (x) - 1/4 colours - blue

Fleur de lis by Robert Reid | Branches with Almond Blossom by Vincent van Gogh | Amalia de Llano y Dotres, Countess of Vilches by Federico de Madrazo |The anticipated letterby Harry George Theaker|We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian) by Lilly Martin Spencer

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Matisse “Odalisca” 1925

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Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Olga in a Fur Collar (1923)

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Edmund Blair Leighton - Pelleas and Melisande (1910)

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The eyes of Vincent van Gogh:Self Portraits, 1886 - 1889.

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The Mystic Wood - John William Waterhouse

19th century

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They Come - Thomas Cooper Gotch

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Sktech from John william waterhouse, he’s one of my favourite painters since several years

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Destiny - John William Waterhouse

1900

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John William Waterhouse,Saint Cecilia (detail) 1895.

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George Frederic Watts, Ophelia

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Medea the Sorceress

 Valentine Cameron Prinsep

1880

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Sophie Gengembre Anderson - No walk today, 1926