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Eftersommar = Late Summer Carl Larsson (Swedish; 1853–1919) 1908 Watercolor on paper Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Also known as “Karin vid stranden” (Karin at the Shore)
Albert Besnard (1849-1934, French) ~ La femme à la pèlerine, 1889 (Etching)
[Source: artvee.com]
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Jose David Morales, The White Bull
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Violets resist the perfumer’s art and always have. It is possible to make a high-quality perfume from violets, but it’s exceedingly difficult and expensive. Only the wealthiest people could afford it; but there have always been empresses, dandies, trend setters, and extravagants enough to keep perfumers busy. The thing about violets, which many people find cloying to the point of nausea, is that no response to them lasts long; as Shakespeare put it, they’re:
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
Violets contain ionone, which short-circuits our sense of smell. The flower continues to exude its fragrance, but we lose the ability to smell it. Wait a minute or two, and its smell will blare again. Then it will fade again, and so on. (…) No scent is more flirtatious. Appearing, disappearing, appearing, disappearing, it plays hide-and-seek with our senses, and there’s no way to get too much of it.
— Diane Ackerman, ‘Smell: Of Violets and Neurons’ A Natural History of the Senses
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i figured yall would appreciate this photo
original instagram post from vinnikolaus
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Eileen Agar, Wings of Augury 1936
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Uncredited Photographer Maori Women, New Zealand, c.1900
Medieval Manuscripts Ink and Pigment Sampler
This ink and pigment sampler was compiled by the Special Collections Conservation Unit of the Preservation Department of Yale University Library.
Artist: Juliusz Lewandowski (1977 - )
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925), Thomas McKeller, 1917–1921. Oil on canvas, 125.7 x 84.5 cm (49 1/2 x 33 1/4 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1986.60) Photograph © 2019 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890–1962), a young Black elevator attendant, at Boston’s Hotel Vendome. McKeller posed for most of the figures—both male and female—in Sargent’s murals in the Museum of Fine Arts. The painter transformed McKeller into white gods and goddesses, creating soaring allegories of the liberal arts that celebrated the recent expansion of the city’s premier civic museum.” — Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
Source: gardnermuseum.org
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Oscar Laske (1874-1951) — Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools) [tempera and gold leaf on canvas, 1922]
