L'amour inondera mes matins

lyghtmylife:

CHINARD, Joseph

[French Neoclassical Sculptor, 1756-1813]

Madame Récamier
1802
Marble
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

byzantio:

early 11th century gold and enamel cross; from Constantinople.

inscribed in Greek :

ΜΡ • ΘΥ (Mother of God) ΒΑΣΙΛ (Basil) ΓΡΙ • ΘΑΥΜ (Gregory Thaum[atourgos])

(via rhaegartargaryen)

jaded-mandarin:

czarists

(via caravaggista)

mesbeauxarts:

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez. Portrait of Philip IV of Spain on Horseback. ca. 1635.

Oil on canvas.

Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti. Firenze, Italia. 

hominisaevum:

1571 Renaissance Table Clock From Nuremberg

from

The Beyer Museum

jaded-mandarin:

Portrait of Marie Genevieve Boudrey - Jean Nattier.

mesbeauxarts:

Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Equestrian portrait of the Duke of Lerma. 1603.

Oil on canvas.

Museo del Prado. Madrid, España.

wasbella102:

George Frederick Watts: Choosing

Artist’s wife, Dame EllenTerry c.1864

(Detail)

(via rhaegartargaryen)

artemisdreaming:

Ballet Rehearsal on Stage detail, 1874

 
Edgar Degas