realmofthesenses:

Penelope Cruz by Mario Testino for Vogue US

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ryandonato:

Pablo Picasso’s first self-portrait

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Pablo Picasso, “Self portrait in the studio Royan” (1940)

(Source: gnossienne)

art-mirrors-art:

Bernard Buffet - Self-portrait in the bathroom (1988)

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Ah, Colette. One of the most influential French authors of her time, she wrote about (and acted out) sexuality in a time that was tres taboo. After the divorce of her first husband, she found notoriety as a music hall dancer, where she performed some very suggestive dances with her lover, the Marquise de Belbeuf, nearly causing a riot.

After she married her second husband, she started a very publicized and scandalous affair with her husband’s son from a previous marriage, which eventually caused the end of that marriage.

Her third and final husband was Maurice Goudeket, a Jewish man whom she financially supported and hid during the Nazi occupation in Paris. After the war, she wrote her most famous book, Gigi in 1945, which became a hit movie in 1949.

paperimages:

George Romney (English, 1734-1802), Lady Hamilton as Circe, c. 1782

a-l-ancien-regime:

Louis Tocqué (1696–1772) 

Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France

1739

oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum

superseventies:

Anjelica Huston by Bob Richardson for Vogue Paris, 1971.

(Source: theyroaredvintage)

mesbeauxarts:

Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul. 1799-1805.

Oil on canvas.

Château de Versailles.Versailles, France.

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, 1955.

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cavetocanvas:

Portrait of Francesco Clemente by Herb Ritts, 1994

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Sam Shaw, 1957.

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mesbeauxarts:

Louis-Léopold Boilly. Reunion of Artists in the Studio of Isabey. 1798.

Oil on canvas.

Musée du Louvre. Paris, France.

artebarocca:

Dr. McPhee was my all time favorite teacher in college, and knows such a rich amount of Roman history during the Baroque period. I highly recommend checking her new book, Bernini’s Beloved, out. This is what has been said about the book:

With lips slightly parted and eyes fixed on a point in the distance, a breathtaking marble portrait of Costanza Piccolomini appears alive. Carved by Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1636–37 for his own pleasure, the portrait of Costanza is one of his most captivating works, but until now little has been known about its subject.

For centuries Costanza was identified only as Bernini’s mistress, who later incited his rage by betraying him for his brother. Author Sarah McPhee corrects and expands this story in her remarkable biography of a sculpture and its subject. Bernini’s Beloved sets the bust and Costanza’s own life—her childhood and noble name, her marriage, affair, fall from grace, and recovery—against the backdrop of Baroque Rome. Beautifully illustrated and written, this fascinating story expands our understanding of the woman whose intelligence and passion served as inspiration for Bernini’s celebrated sculpture, and who courageously forged a life for herself in the decades following its creation.

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