La Boîte à Trésors

a-l-ancien-regime:

Stephen Tennant as Prince Charming by Cecil Beaton bromide print, 1927 (via National Portrait Gallery)

nataliakoptseva:

Edouard Manet

The Old musician

arssubtilis:

Hieronymus Bosch - Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns)

dwellerinthelibrary:

awakeningapril:

Ptolemaic-Egyptian Art (Which I hate, fyi) … but I still took the photo. (Shot @ MET Museum, NYC)

Ptolemaic or Roman-era painted linen shroud. You have no idea how much rummaging it took for me to find this. :) (I thought the figure at centre was a goddess; I think it’s actually the deceased woman.)

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“Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.”

-Matsuo Basho, poet (1644-1694)
(via teaintheafternoon)

le-desir-de-lautre:

unknown Italian artist, Deeds of Alexander the Great, 1400-50, Illumination on parchment, National Széchényi Library, Budapest

speciesbarocus:

Delle allvsioni, imprese, et emblemi del Sig. Principio Fabricii da Teramo sopra la vita, opere, et attioni di Gregorio XIII pontefice massimo (1588). [x]
> Engravings by Natale Bonifacio.