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That's terrible that I didn't even need to see the second image to know what this costume was from.

Costume designed by Milena Canonero for Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette (2006)

From the Museo del Tessuto via The Florentine

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French woman by Pierre-Louis Pierson, ca.1850-60

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Point de Vue  

Nº 3534 

13-18 April 2016 

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The Queen of the Tournament

Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833–1898)

Salford Museum & Art Gallery

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DÜRER, Albrecht Cupid the Honey Thief 1514 Pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 22 x 31 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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money is a woman’s only power in this world. you make it your solace and your dream, and one day wealth– real lasting wealth– will make you free.

female awesome meme: 2/5 female driven shows ~ harlots

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Madame Royer by Jean-Marc Nattier

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STAR GIRLS ! 

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James Pradier Geneva 1790 – Bougival, France, 1852 Standing Sappho 1848 Silvered bronze

Montreal Museum of Fine Art

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On this day in history, August 2nd, in 1830, Marie Therese Charlotte, the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was briefly Queen of France.

Charles X abdicated the throne in favour of his son, Louis Antoine, who was Marie Therese’s husband. In the twenty minutes between the time Charles reluctantly abdicated, and the time his son equally reluctantly did the same in favour of his young nephew, she was considered Queen of France.

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The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir John Everett Millais, 1878

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Jean-Frédéric Schall (1752-1825) Lovers crossing a Stream

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Decoration zu der Oper : Die Zauberflöte.

Art by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.(1781-1841).

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Landscape – Girl in a Meadow

William Page Atkinson Wells (1872–1923)

Harris Museum & Art Gallery

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Sibilla

Francesco Cozza (1605–1682)

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

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The gorgeous cavalcade proceeded to Kell, on the frontiers of Austria and France. There a magnificent pavilion had been erected, consisting of a vast saloon, with an apartment at either end. One of these apartments was assigned to the lords and ladies of the court of Vienna; the other was appropriated to the brilliant train which had come from Paris to receive the bride. The two courts vied with each other in the exhibition of wealth and magnificence. It was an established law of French etiquette, always observed on such occasions, that the royal bride should receive her wedding dress from France, and should retain absolutely nothing belonging to a foreign court. The princess was, consequently, in the pavilion appropriated to the Austrian suite, unrobed of all her garments, excepting her body linen and stockings. The door was then thrown open, and in this plight the beautiful and blushing child advanced into the saloon. The French ladies rushed to meet her. Maria threw herself into the arms of the Countess de Noailles, and wept convulsively. The French were perfectly enchanted with her beauty; and the proud position of her head and shoulders betrayed to their eyes the daughter of the Caesars. She was immediately conducted to the apartment appropriated to the French court. Here the few remaining articles of clothing were removed from her person, and she was re-dressed in the most brilliant attire which the wealth of the French monarchy could furnish.

Maria Antoinette - John S. C. Abbott