Your Hands Are Cold

"You never felt jealousy, did you Miss Eyre? Of course not:I need not ask you: because you never felt love. You have sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall wake it." - Mr. Rochester

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FIRST LOOK: Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019)

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Late 19th century diamond tiara

Bonhams 

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Traditional chinese jewellry, diancui点翠. photo by 动脉影.

These are old jewels in museums so they were made of kingfisher feathers during their times. In modern times kingfisher are animals under first-class state protection in china so diancui点翠 craftwork has been replaced by others such as shaolan烧蓝, dyed goose feather, particular blue paper and blue silk.

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I want to be everything to you. You are… You are. Somewhere in Time (1980) dir. Jeannot Szwarc

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And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing. 

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think […].“

She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.

A few years later, when she was 25 or so:

“I am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally … Now I am well again and not pregnant—it terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant “I can achieve anything”. For me […] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself […].“

During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry.  And at one point while reading her husband’s diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence “There is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.” In her own diary she wrote “They ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cry…”

A few years before her husband’s death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled “Groans”, under the pseudonym “A Tired Woman”.

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the most depressing quote from her diaries:

“I have served a genius for almost forty years. Hundreds of times I have felt my intellectual energy stir within me and all sorts of desires - a longing for education, a love of music and the arts… And time and again I have crushed and smothered these longings… Everyone asks, “But why should a worthless woman like you need an intellectual or artistic life?” To this question I can only reply: “I don’t know, but eternally suppressing it to serve a genius is a great misfortune.”

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Chatelaine, 1860.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

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Side table (one of a pair) by Matthias Lock, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Medium: Carved gilt pine with modern scagliola top

Purchase, Irene Roosevelt Aitken Gift, in memory of Russell B. Aitken; several members of The Chairman’s Council Gifts; Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, Francis F. Randolph and Marion E. Cohn Foundation Gifts, and Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange; and O

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/234881

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Alhambra Palace - Granada - Spain (by Barney Moss) 

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Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina - 2012

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Palazzo Valguarnera Gangi

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Marie Antoinette di Jen Yoon. 

(via Roba da disegnatori)

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Orb of the Grand Attire (Regalia of Russian Tsar Boris Godunov) Western Europe, late XVIth century; Gold, precious stones, pearls; casting, chasing, engraving, carving, enamels. Height 42,4 cm. Belonged to the Grand set of Russian Tsars. [х]

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Le Lac des cygnes, costume pour la Reine d’après Tomio Mohri, Opéra Bastille, 1992. Coll. cncs/onp.

Medea, costume de La Toison d’or, d’après Yannis Kokkos, Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, 2005.

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Three Centuries of Ballet, 1948