Hello lovelies, my name is Darian. I am currently preparing for an advanced degree in art history, and I decided to turn this Tumblr into a resource for myself. Here I'll be compiling (and thoroughly tagging) all the art history knowledge I've acquired.
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Ritz mark JS (Joh. Scherber), Ansbach Porcelain Factory
Venus with Cupid, ca.1760/65, porcelain, 27x14.2x11 cm
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Inv. 4393
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Konstantin Makovsky, The Russian Bride's Attire (detail), 1889
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Woman with a Cat (The Dangerous Caress), François Boucher, circa 1731-35
Oil on canvas 32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm) Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER-The-Enchanted-Home-A-Pastoral-Landscape-surmounted-by-Cupid-
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Midsummer Nights Dream, New York City Ballet Production
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Merry Christmas, my loves ‧₊˚🎄✩
#christmas#merry christmas#me#personal#the nutcracker#sugar plum fairy#ballet#nutcracker ballet#'tis the season
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Candelabrum, Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, 1765
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Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam Germany
#Design#Interior#Rococo#Palace#Germany#German#Schloss#Decor#Decoration#Gold#Sanssouci Palace#Architecture#Art#interiors
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🌸 Detail: Portrait of a girl in a Russian headdress by Pietro Rotari (1750s)
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Perfume vase (one of a pair)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
British, ca. 1761
#art#rococo#rococo art#18th century#art history#decorative arts#perfume vase#porcelain#European decorative arts#vase#British art#Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory#Chelsea Porcelain
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Naiad by Charles-André van Loo (18th Century)
#18th century#fine art#paintings#charles-andre van loo#art#baroque#rococo#baroque art#french artist#french art#naiad#greek mythology#mythology#18th century art
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Pair of Shoes
1750s
silk trimmed with silver braid and silver lace, leather
maker unknown, England
Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Picnic in the Park by Christophe Huet, c. 1750
#christophe huet#turquerie#orientalism#French#rococo#18th century#French art#French rococo art#rococo art#art#art history#monkeys#ornament#exoticism
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Transparent Golden Oval Baroque Frame
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#art#rococo#rococo art#18th century#frames#transparent#png#pngs#transparent pngs#transparent frame#transparent frames#baroque
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Allegory of Vigilance (c. 1772), (detail) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806), oil on canvas, 68.9 x 54.9 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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FOLLOWER OF CHRISTOPHE HUET, TURQUERIES
One of a set of four, all oil on canvas
#painting#classical art#rococo#art history#art#Christophe Huet#rococo art#turquerie#18th century#decorative arts#TURQUERIES
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Left: François Boucher, Aurora and Cephalus, c. 1769
Right: François Boucher, Venus on the Waves, c. 1769
#greek mythology#painting#art history#mythology#eighteenth century#18th century#France#rococo#classical art#French art#paintings#art#rococo art#aphrodite#venus
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