Leda and the Swan, unknown sculptor, 19th century, Scindia Museum, Gwalior, India 

"

I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear

How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls

But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

"

theparisreview:

Ori Gersht, Blow Up. The photographs depict elaborate floral arrangements, based upon a nineteenth century still-life painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, captured in the moment of exploding.

arsversis:

Digital x-ray of Vincent van Gogh, Wild Roses, oil on canvas, 1890, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

After Giambologna, Fortuna

From Neckclothitania or Tietania, being an essay on Starchers, by One of the Cloth, published by J.J. Stockdale, 1 September 1818, engraved by George Cruikshank

James Tissot, Too Early, oil on canvas, 1873, Guildhall Art Gallery

just-collecting-dust:

Morbid Anatomy have been hard at work of late in our attempts to track down as many pieces as possible from Victorian anthropomorphic taxidermist Walter Potter’s now sadly divided up Museum of Curiosities. Many of these pieces were brought back together for the wonderful 2012 Museum of Everything exhibition, but a great deal more have never been seen since the Bonhams auction which dispersed them in 2003.

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2012/12/seeking-pieces-from-victorian.html

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