the transcendental modernist

Oct 11

centuriespast:

Danaë
c.1612

Artemisia Gentileschi  

Saint Louis Art Museum

theloudestvoice:

Corinne Griffith portrait by Russell Ball, Photoplay magazine, April 1924

billyjane:

Sepia Nude, 1927 by Charles J. Cook [few more here]

from Collezione Marone

Oct 10

Mediterranean Beauty - Oil on panel - Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911)

Lucretia - Oil on canvas - Andrea Casali (1705–1764) - c. 1750

Possibly Anita Colby - Alfred Cheney Johnston

centuriespast:

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
French (1825-1905)
Le Travail interrompu
1891

Amherst College

theloudestvoice:

Gloria Swanson, portrait scanned from Photoplay magazine, April 1923

yama-bato:

Nina Vyroubova (née en 1921)

Auteur : Le Prat Thérèse (1895-1966)

link

Oct 04

yama-bato:

Marthe au tub, vers 1908

Description : Entre 1908 et 1910. Séjour à Vernouillet. Marthe Bonnard (1869-1942), compagne de Bonnard.

Prise de vue réalisé à Vernouillet (Yvelines)

Auteur : Bonnard Pierre (1867-1947)

rmn

Oct 03

Fleurs des Champs - Oil on Canvas - Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911)

Spring - Watercolor - Antoni Piotrowski (1853–1924) - c. 1902

Zasada Lord - Alfred Cheney Johnston

“Stare. It’s the way to educate your eyes. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.” — Walker Evans (Thanks to liquidnight)

queering:

Nude study,1913 by Nino Vayana