#beautiful century

[namedvesta]

Antonio Frilli, “Sweet Dreams”, Marble sculpture (𝟣𝟪𝟫𝟤).

[tygerland]

Late-nineteenth-century watercolor portraits of indigenous North-African men, by Spanish painter Josep Tapiró i Baró (1836-1913).

[abnormes]

the other side by dean cornwell (1918)

[thebeautifulbook]

CODEX ROTUNDUS (Flanders, c.1480)

Held by Dombibliothek Hildesheim, Germany.

source

[frostedmagnolias]

Black Satin Brocade Bodice with Yellow Flowers and Green Velvet Bows

c.1890

made by American designer Miss Foley

brocaded silk satin, cotton net, and beads

Phoenix Art Museum

[ryllen]

when the king loves you too much, u become his platonic concubine [🌿]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[solcattus]

Retrospection, c. 1913

By Ernest Haskell

[die-rosastrasse]

Ball gown, 1840-41

Maker: Unknown

From the collection of Wien Museum

[qjqzxjq]

Antoine Calbet "Ondines" (French painter, 1860-1944)

[vintage-russia]

"The angel sitting on the coffin" (1908/1911)

Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)

[guzhufuren]

upcoming thai ql prayer circle 🤝🤝🤝

[cuties-in-codices]

souls of the slothful being devoured by dragons and eagles in hell

in the "livre de la vigne nostre seigneur", france, c. 1450–1470

source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 84v

[abnormes]

Ophelia by Friedrich Heyser

[thebeautifulbook]

Fifteenth century heart-shaped songbook Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu.

[wyntersart]

Odelisque by Francesco Hayez (1867)