Greetings, friends! We are back today with another foray into how art history and fashion history converge. Recently, on our Instagram account, we shared a cheeky little post featuring the painting Hearing: The Five Senses by Henri Guillaume Schlesinger. This example of genre painting is

From ancient Greece to a fashion week in the middle of a pandemic – a short story that shows the tight union between tradition, painting, and sculpture.

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Greetings, friends! We are back today with another foray into how art history and fashion history converge. Recently, on our Instagram account, we shared a cheeky little post featuring the painting Hearing: The Five Senses by Henri Guillaume Schlesinger. This example of genre painting is

Władysław Czachórski (1850-1911) “First Roses” (1891) Academicism

There's something about classical art that just turns me off. Endless portraits of pale and plump aristocrats looking all fancy in the classical paintings, bucolic rural scenes, religious iconography... I can certainly appreciate the skill and relevance back in the pre-photography age, but these days we need a message!

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Garton Orme At The Spinet Edward Dryden With His Wife And Children Sir Nathaniel Curzon, With His Wife, Their Son And Their Dead Son In The Clouds Above George And Richard, 1st Earl and 2nd Baron …

Otto Wilhelm Erdmann 1834-1905 Duitsland

Róza Teleki in the Atelier (1838). Miklós Barabás (Hungarian, 1810-1898). Watercolor. Barabás was a pupil of J. Ender in Vienna in 1829. After returning to Kolozsvár in 1830, he learned lithography...

Цитаты из книги-альбома про Альфонса Муху : Фотографии Мухи делятся на три части: фотографии натурщиков для использования их в живописи; фотографии, сделанные в путешествиях, в первую очередь на Балканы (1912 год) и в Россию (1913 год), и фотографии семьи и друзей. Коллекция Фонда Мухи…

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The woman's brightly coloured antique dress, not authentic but suggestive of antiquity, contrasts sharply with the smooth marble balustrade supporting her, whose open stonework was based on ancient models. While setting and costume allude to the ancient past, this painting's theme is timeless: waiting to hear from a loved one. The seascape in the background, the young woman's gesture, and her diaphanous gown, slightly rippling like a flag, all suggest an awaited signal from her beloved. Though rendering the scene so prettily as to nullify any true anxiety, John William Godward did tap into a universal feeling, the isolation experienced in the midst of uncertainty. He specialised in portraying women alone in settings from antiquity, often in bust portraits, usually decorative, dark-haired beauties in see-through gowns created with ingenious contrasts of colours and flesh tones. [Getty Centre, Los Angeles - Oil on canvas, 26 x 18 inches]

Luis de Madrazo Spanish, 1825-1897 portrait detail

From E.B. White to Steven King, writers that face the reality of death reveal the tender humanity of those who mourn.

Photographed by Alexander Bassano London, England 1870's I think person on this photo is either princess Helena, Victoria, or Alice.

Portraits of first half of 19 centuries. В моей папке с портретами первой половины 19 века пополнение. Я думаю, что оно может понравиться многим моим друзьям. Можно долго-долго вглядываться в эти лица. Эти девушки и молодые женщины таят в себе…

Photo credit: Magazine cover by Coles Phillips [1880-1927], scan via American Art Archives As we embark on the year that commemorates the 100-year anniversary of the sinking of the titanic, there will be lots of looking back at Edwardian times. I thought I would put together a post of some lovely scans from McCall's magazines of the 1910's. Hope you enjoy! Photo Credits: 1. August 1910 McCall's Magazine via Christine592 on Flickr (also known by the blog Vintage 123), 2. Winter 1913 McCall's Magazine via Clothes Circuit, 3. April 1914 McCall fashion plate via Vintage Fan Girl Photo Credits: 4. March 1914 McCall's Magazine fashion plate via Christine592 on flickr, 5. 1915 McCall's Magazine fashion plate via the NYPL Digital Gallery Photo Credits: 6. 1916 McCall's Magazine fashion plate from Iowa State University Library Special Collections via Old Rags ,7. April 1917 McCall's Magazine fashion plate via Christine592 on Flickr, 8. January 1918 McCall's Magazine fashion plate via Christine592 on Flickr. More 1910's McCall's resources: Scans from the August and December 1917 McCall's Magazines from Vintage 123. A story from the April 1916 McCall's Magazine on auto-camping across the United States from The Vintage Traveler (a fabulous blog and fellow vintage pattern lover!) Lizzie explains ... From Coast to Coast, A Nine-Thousand-Mile Vacation for Two for $350. The story is the first person account of Beatrice Backus and her teacher husband’s decision to drive from Massachusetts to San Francisco during his summer break. In 1916 the automobile was still relatively new, and many parts of the country did not have any paved roads. There was no highway system, no AAA, no reliable maps for many places. But that did not stop these intrepid travelers who decided to auto-camp their way across the country and back. Scans from the May 1913 McCall's Magazine that this lucky blogger found at a garage sale!! Scans from the December 1911 McCall's Magazine from Clearly Vintage.

Auguste Toulmouche (French, 1829-1890) The Reluctant Bride, 1866

Leonor Fini by André Ostier, 1949 Bohemian "It Girl" of Paris, master of surrealist disguise and generally a badass female libertine, Leonor Fini was one of the most photographed people of the 20th century. And yet barely anyone I ask knows her name, even here in Paris, where she once ruled the b

Everyone knows that classical sculpture is white. Think of the gleaming marble of artworks like the Belvedere Torso and "Laocoön and His Sons" — the whiteness imparts a kind of purity, a sense of being the ground zero of Western culture, the original from which an entire civilization's canon has sprung.

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