wasbella102:

Takeda Fumiko, Japan

gasp365:

Helene Schjerfbeck

Paavo

23silence:

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) - Margaretta Drexel, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham

ladonasmusicstudio:

Connections

This started as a blog intended for other piano teachers. Then expanded to include just as many…

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mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Robert Cornelius, the original daguerreotype boyfriend. 

meandthemajor:

1839 self-portrait of Robert Cornelius, one of the first photographs of a human to be produced.

(Source: verticalfiles)

flasd:

Girault’s design for the cast iron door of the Petit Palais, Paris.

artemisdreaming:

 Joseph Simpson: Design for a bookplate, c. 1879-1900 (via: Forbes.com)

i12bent:

A special sequence to celebrate the birthday of Vladimir Nabokov (April 22, 1899 - 1977), the great Russian-American novelist and butterfly collector…

“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness-in a landscape selected at random-is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern-to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

memoryepsilon:

Ervin Marton  Paris 1961

(via mimbeau)

66lanvin:

The QUESTION of U……….No.5

(Source: lindsayhamlynphotographer)