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feuilly:

The wickedness of my abhorrent face

EPIC. Man, this is PHENOMENAL.

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venetianassassin:

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine school under the patronage Lorenzo de’ Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later as a “golden age”, a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. Botticelli’s posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting. Among his best known works are The Birth of Venus & Primavera.

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centuriespast:

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669)
Two Studies of Saskia Asleep

The Morgan Library

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girlsittingonabench:

Hey guys I’m transferring to a different college in the fall and I entered the Smith’s bag design.Winning this would mean winning money for food while in college.I just need to get into the top five. I will forever be grateful. Here is a screen shot of the bag I designed it’s not all that great…

Hey, ya’ll! One of my best friends in the whole world has entered a bag design contest for Smiths’ reusable grocery bags. If she wins, she’ll get the money she needs to transfer to her new college. As you can see by the design, she’s an amazing artist and so deserves to win this. I think you have to create an account with Smith’s to vote for her design, but that only takes a second. Follow the directions she’s given in the link.

Click on the link above to vote for her—she’s wonderful and this would mean so much to her because it would allow her to pay for college. Plus, I’ve known her since high school and I promise you that she’s just awesome and adorable and amazing.

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oldbookillustrations:

Her lips are merely Cupid’s bow.

Harrison Fisher, from American beauties, Indianapolis, 1909.

(Source: archive.org)

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alwaysenduphere:

Le génie du mal [The genius of evil, aka; Lucifer]; Guillaume Geefs

“The statue was originally a commission for Geefs’ younger brother Joseph, who completed it in 1842 and installed it the following year. It generated controversy at once and was criticized for not representing a Christian ideal.The cathedral administration declared that “this devil is too sublime.” The local press intimated that the work was distracting the “pretty penitent girls” who should have been listening to the sermons.” [x]

[The original ‘sublime’ version shown below, and the ‘revised’ one in the photoset above]

> Make sculpture of the devil

> No this sculpture is too hot for church

> Make another one

> It’s even hotter

Very Miltonian. :)

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steelylaceribbon:

Henrietta Rae, Zephyrus Wooing Flora, (not dated)

I got so much flack for loving pieces like this when I was studying art. Some of my teachers called it “trite” and “meaningless” and “commercial.” I would tell them, “But it’s so beautiful.”

They would say, “And? It’s beautiful and what?”

“That’s it,” I would say.

They would then go on this spiel about how beauty alone doesn’t mean anything—that the paintings needed to have some sort of deeper, innovative flair to them, some sort of convoluted hidden meaning and strong sense of symbolism.

There is absolutely a time and a place for that. I use a lot of symbolism in my own work. But I’m of the Keatsian mindset that believes that it’s okay if something is just beautiful, the end. Do you know why?

Because sometimes, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” - that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Because sometimes something beautiful, something that feeds the soul and lets us breathe a sigh of relief, is perfectly okay and makes it all worth it.

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