Gustave Doré illustrations.
Frederic Leighton (English, 1830-1896)
Memories
stairs in paris, eugéne atget c. 1890s-1900s.
Once the seat of Clan Donald, Armadale Castle on the Isle of Skye was originally built around 1790 and expanded in the Scottish Baronial style in 1815. After a fire in 1855 and later abandonment in 1925, its ruins now stand among 40 acres of gardens, offering a glimpse into its storied past.
scotland.co
You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Coughton Court from the East
Artist: Allen Edward Everitt (English, 1824-1882)
Date: n. d.
Medium: Watercolour
Collection: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
some portraits :)
Bronze statuette of a dancing satyr, Roman, 3rd-2nd century BC The House of the Faun, Pompeii Museo Archeologico Nazionale (inv. 5002)
Asamkirche, München - Deutschland
©JC Elgueta 2009
A beautiful day for visit the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum for free.
Tintoretto - The Annunciation to Manoah's Wife, 1555-1559
El Greco- Christ with the Cross, 1587-1596
Canaletto - The Piazza San Marco in Venice, c.1723-1724
Vincent van Gogh - The Stevedores in Arles, 1888
Lucas van Valckenborch I - The Massacre of the Innocents, 1586
Canaletto - The Grand Canal from San Vio, Venice, c.1723-1724
Hubert Robert - Interior of the Temple of Diana at Nîmes, 17[83]
Vittore Carpaccio - Young Knight in a Landscape, c.1505
Lucas Cranach the Elder - The Nymph at the Fountain, 1530-1534
Statue of Jupiter, late 1st century AD. From the villa of Emperor Domitian (Flavian dynasty). Hermitage Museum.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. Tacitus
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