met-asian:

夏衣の女|Woman in Summer Clothing by Hashiguchi Goyō, Asian Art

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44587

wanderthewood:

Shining Cliff Woods, Ambergate, Derbyshire, England by icypics

nemfrog:

Plate V. Catteya trainae orchid. Orchids, the royal family of plants. 1885.

historyarchaeologyartefacts:

Winged Athena holding a helmet unearthed inside an Etruscan villa c. 100 BC. National Museum Rome [500x752]

everythingfox:

Just some foxes in snow

📷: Alexis

wonderlartcafe:

Ohara Koson — Owl, early 1920s

grandegyptianmuseum:

Cleopatra VII Philopator

For the modern era, she is the definitive Egyptian queen, although she was descended from the Macedonians who ruled Egypt from the time of Alexander the Great. Black basalt, 146 cm tall. Ptolemaic Period, 1st century BC. Photograph: Hermitage Museum/Grimaldi Forum

everythingfox:

wot’s this?

artist-varo:

The Minotaur, Remedios Varo

https://www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo/the-minotaur

simena:

Charles Amédé Philippe van Loo (detail)

everythingfox:

Important

Photo by Matt

karrova:

Saint Barbara (detail)

Unidentified artist, Netherlandish, 16th century

papillon-de-mai:

Thomas Francis Dicksee — Amy Robsart. detail. ca. 1888

simena:

Jean Raoux