#historical painting

[random-brushstrokes]

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini - Alexander at the Corpse of the Dead Darius (1708)

[bebs-art-gallery]

How Animals Mourn

Anguish by August Friedrich Schenk † The Dead Miner (Mourning the Master) by Charles Christian Nahl † The Faithful Hound by sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA † The Orphan. A Memory of Auvergne by August Friedrich Schenk

[lionofchaeronea]

Death of Sappho, Miquel Carbonell Selva, 1881

[fine-arts-gallery]

Magdalene Grieving (1605) by Caravaggio.

[desolatus]

Old Man's Death, C. 1890s

László Mednyánszky

[napoleonyaoi]

Arnaut Blowing Smoke at the Nose of His Dog, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1882.

(Or as I like to call it, Man Engages in the Age Old Tradition of Annoying Your Dog)

[pagansphinx]

Frederic Leighton (British, 1830–1896) • Light of the Harem • c. 1880 • Private collection

[coldwinterwhispers]

The Death of Cleopatra by Hans Makart (1875–1876)

[forsapphics]

O beijo (1909)

Eliseu Visconti (1866 - 1944)

[random-brushstrokes]

Josef Platzer - Caesar Octavianus finds Cleopatra by the body of Antonius (1802)

[bebs-art-gallery]

Ein lieber Besuch (A Lovely Visit) 1894

— by Max Kurzweil

[lionofchaeronea]

Hellelil and Hildebrand (The Meeting on the Turret Stairs), Frederic William Burton, 1864

[fine-arts-gallery]

Two Young Women Kissing (1790s) by Louis-Léopold Boilly.

[desolatus]

Fairy Hordes Attacking a Bat

C. 1860

John Anster Fitzgerald

[aukanemin]

Kaulas ir Sidabras

Both spine and heart of mine they are - such ravenously and beautifully toned expressions and shapes of lovely, most adored @jeritza-von-hrym!<ззз

[royalsofhistory]

💌 Details of the painting of Poland’s first female monarch, Jadwiga of Anjou (1384–1399), by Italian-Polish painter, Marcello Bacciarelli, circa 1768–1771.