Laura, 23, Italian
thegiftsoflife: 18th Century Verdure Aubusson Tapestry via
repulsed: Frederic Edwin Church
fleurdulys: A Musician’s Reverie - John Pettie 1850
dawnawakened: James Ward, Gordale Scar (A View of Gordale, in the Manor of East Malham in Craven, Yorkshire, the Property of Lord Ribblesdale) (1812) “Gordale Scar is a bank of limestone cliffs near Settle, Yorkshire. Ward painted this picture for Lord Ribblesdale, a local landowner. He emphasised the height and scale of the cliffs by subtly manipulating the perspective. In the foreground he shows deer and cattle, including a white bull from the (originally wild) Chillingham herd, who appears to guard the cleft of Gordale Beck. Working in the last years of the Napoleonic wars, Ward aimed to depict a national landscape, primordial and unchanging, defended by ‘John Bull’ in animal form. His painting also epitomised the awe-inspiring qualities of the fashionable ‘Sublime’ landscape.” - Tate Britain
fleurdulys: Spring at Cadenabbia - John Collier
necroluste: Carl Spitzweg  - Der Hexenmeister.
lyghtmylife: QUELLINUS, Erasmus II [Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1607-1678] Still-Life in an Architectural Settingc. 1645Oil on canvas, 112 x 83 cmMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
serendippitea: Byron in Venice by Ivan Aivazovsky
blastedheath: Lucien Simon (French, 1861-1945), The Dress Circle. Oil on canvas, 129 x 148.5 cm (estimated). Kirklees Museums and Art Galleries.