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The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher, 1751, oil on canvas

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The Birth of Venus (1863), (detail), by Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889), oil on canvas, 150 × 250 cm, The Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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Titania Sleeping (1840) by Richard Dadd (1817-1886), oil on canvas, 64.8 × 77.5 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris

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La Meditazione

Francesco Hayez, 1851

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Consiglio alla vendetta [it.]

Vengeance is sworn + details.

Francisco Hayez (1791-1882)

Neoclassicism. Romanticism.

Ca. 1851. Oil on canvas.

Liechtenstein Museum (Viena, Austria)

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La Meditazione

Francesco Hayez, 1851

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Queen Eleanor is an 1858 oil-on-canvas painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Frederick Sandys which depicts Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, the wife of King Henry II of England, on her way to poison her husband's mistress, Rosamund Clifford. The painting is displayed at the National Museum.

Since the 18th century, a variety of movements have used the medieval period as a model or inspiration for creative activity, including Romanticism, the Gothic revival, the pre-Raphaelite and arts and crafts movements, and neo-medievalism (a term often used interchangeably with medievalism).

A popular story they liked to depict was the murder of Rosamund Clifford by Eleanor. This was complete fabrication since most medieval chroniclers acknowledged that, by 1173, Eleanor was held in close confinement, having raised her sons in rebellion against their father.

The traditional story recounts that King Henry concealed his affair from Queen Eleanor by conducting it within the innermost recesses of a complicated maze. Queen Eleanor penetrated the labyrinth while trailing a red cord, and forced her rival to choose between a dagger and the bowl of poison. Rosamund chose the poison, and died.

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Title: Queen Guinevre's Maying

Artist: John Collier

Date: 1900

Style: Romanticism

Genre: Literary Painting

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Girl with Angel, Wilhelm Kotarbinski

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Afternoon Silence, 1900, Wilhelm Kotarbinski

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“Vaidade”, de Auguste Toulmouche.

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My neighbour totoro - studio ghibli.

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Elegy

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1899

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The Virgin with Angels or The Song of the Angels (1881) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905), oil on canvas, 213.4 × 152.4 cm, The Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale

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The heart's awakening, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1892

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・❥・Art dividers - Part IV!

・❥・Like and/or reblog if use

・❥・Category: Women and Goddesses / Men and Gods

・❥・Paintings:

ೄ Frederic Leighton, The Fisherman and the Siren

ೄ William-Adolphe Bouguerau, Le revissement de Psyché (The Rapture of Psyche)

ೄ Francesco Hayez, Il Bacio (The Kiss)

ೄ William-Adolphe Bouguerau, L'Amour et Psyché, Enfants (Cupid and Psyche as Children)

ೄ John William Waterhouse, Ulysses and the Sirens