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pre-raphaelisme: The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:09:31 +1000

The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, based on his poem that goes by the same name. The date of this painting confuses me, so I can’t properly put one. I do know, that this version is from somewhere between 1870-1882.

These are the first four stanza’s of his poem:

The blessed damozel leaned out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters stilled at even;
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven.

Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem,
No wrought flowers did adorn,
But a white rose of Mary’s gift,
For service meetly worn;
Her hair that lay along her back
Was yellow like ripe corn.

Herseemed she scarce had been a day
One of God’s choristers;
The wonder was not yet quite gone
From that still look of hers;
Albeit, to them she left, her day Had counted as ten years.

(To one, it is ten years of years… .
Yet now, and in this place,
Surely she leaned o’er me—her hair
Fell all about my face… .
Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves.
The whole year sets apace.)

labellefilleart: Mrs Archibald Milman, Edward John Poynter

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:44:36 +1000

labellefilleart:

Mrs Archibald Milman, Edward John Poynter

browndresswithwhitedots: desserts for breakfast

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:42:58 +1000

browndresswithwhitedots:

desserts for breakfast

c0ssette: Jan van Huysum,Vase of Flowers,1722. (Detail)

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:41:28 +1000

c0ssette:

Jan van Huysum,Vase of Flowers,1722. (Detail)

Paintings in detail→ Winterhalter + Clothes

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:25:55 +1000

Paintings in detail→ Winterhalter + Clothes

art history meme | 2/6 themes or series or subjects: ophelia

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:10:52 +1000

art history meme | 2/6 themes or series or subjects: ophelia

lohrien: Illustrations by Casey Robin

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:04:55 +1000

lohrien:

Illustrations by Casey Robin

deforest: Katharine Hepburn, senior at Bryn Mawr, in costume as...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:46:54 +1000

deforest:

Katharine Hepburn, senior at Bryn Mawr, in costume as “Pandora” in a 1928 outdoor production of John Lyly’s comedy The Woman in the Moon. Hepburn would later write in her autobiography, “Pandora was a great part. She played in different moods under the influence of different planets. I was warlike under Mars. Loving under Venus, etc., etc. Funny, tearful, etc. My father said that all he could see in that performance were the soles of my dirty feet getting blacker and blacker. And my freckled face getting redder and redder.”

slowlyeden: John William Waterhouse dress details: Part II....

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:45:24 +1000

slowlyeden:

John William Waterhouse dress details: Part II. (Part I)

ornamentedbeing: Ollivier Henry - “Aprés-midi”, d’inspiration...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:39:36 +1000

ornamentedbeing:

Ollivier Henry - “Aprés-midi”, d’inspiration robe à tournure XIXe siècle, 2009, Taffetas changeant garni de ruché, brodé de fleurs au point de feston et appliqué de mignardises, collection particulière, Exposition “Plein les yeux” au musée de la Dentelle à Calais.

art history meme | 3/4 colours: yellow

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:00:06 +1000

art history meme | 3/4 colours: yellow

The Duchess (2008)

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:59:34 +1000

The Duchess (2008)

centuriesbehind: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63829160@N06/59742...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:50:50 +1000

centuriesbehind:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63829160@N06/5974238824/in/photostream/

missmonroes: Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene,...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:49:34 +1000

missmonroes:

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene, 1954

1939 - British soldier takes tea to comrades working to repair...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:36:52 +1000

1939 - British soldier takes tea to comrades working to repair banks of River Ravensbourne which flooded south London.

smartsensuality: Masha Kirsanova | Yuval Hen | How to Spend It...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:41:50 +1000

smartsensuality:

Masha Kirsanova | Yuval Hen | How to Spend It November 2011 | ‘Holding Court’

Bright Star (2009)

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:36:52 +1000

Bright Star (2009)

Rosamund by Eleanor Fortesque-Brickdale (1871-1945) oil on...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:20:08 +1000

Rosamund by Eleanor Fortesque-Brickdale (1871-1945)

oil on canvas, 20th century

Photo

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:19:11 +1000

I’m very, very sorry for the terrible distress that I have...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:16:26 +1000

I’m very, very sorry for the terrible distress that I have caused. I’m very, very sorry.