slickwhippet

Soviet soldiers during the Battle of Kursk, 1943 via imgur
lamourisnotpourmoi:

410 ♥ / 8 June, 2013

Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille (1848-1912), A Polish Lancer (n.d.)
proteus7:

422 ♥ / 29 May, 2013

rosenfae:

Fallen Angel, 1872
Odilon Redon

275 ♥ / 22 May, 2013

colourthysoul:

Jaume Mateu - Peter III the Ceremonious (1427)

352 ♥ / 14 May, 2013

Andre-Jacques-Victor Orsel (1795–1850), Self-portrait (ca. 1815-20)

4 ♥ / 12 May, 2013

collectivehistory:

Painter Gustave Caillebotte and his dog in front of the Louvre, 1876

1403 ♥ / 12 May, 2013

centuriespast:

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)Portrait of Paul-César Helleu, 1880s
the Morgan Library

214 ♥ / 11 May, 2013

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903), The Gold Scab: Eruption in Frilthy Lucre (The Creditor), 1879. Oil on canvas, de Young Museum, San Francisco.
Story at the de Young

423 ♥ / 29 April, 2013

Grendel’s Mother Drags Beowulf to the Bottom Of The Lake via Uncouth Reflections
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“A few miles from herea frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watchabove a mere; the overhanging bankis a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface.At night there, something uncanny happens:the water burns. And the mere bottomhas never been sounded by the sons of men.On its bank, the heather-stepper halts:the hart in flight from pursuing houndswill turn to face them with firm-set hornsand die in the wood rather than divebeneath its surface. That is no good place.”
Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney

160 ♥ / 26 April, 2013

Peter von Hess, detail from Die Schlacht bei Borodino (1843)

4 ♥ / 24 April, 2013

Hieronymus Bosch, detail from The Temptation of St. Anthony (after 1490). Full work here.

208 ♥ / 19 April, 2013

artgalleryofontario:

Lt. Robert McClure, 1847 Cornelius Krieghoff (Canadian) Painting, oil on canvas, 60.7 x 46.2 cm The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario

12 ♥ / 12 April, 2013

Albert Tissandier, Portrait of the artist’s brother, Gaston Tissandier, balloonist, “alt. 2,600m au dessus de la forêt de Crécy, 26 juin 1886.” via Library of Congress

1 ♥ / 1 April, 2013

an-overwhelming-question:

Maurice Ravel (1912)
Ravel’s piano roll recording of Oiseaux tristes, from Miroirs

136 ♥ / 18 March, 2013

Horst Janssen, Honoré de Balzac (1967).
Balzac on the wonders of coffee, from Traité des excitants modernes (1838): “I have discovered a horrible, rather brutal method [for ingesting coffee] that I recommend only to men of excessive vigor, men with thick black hair and skin covered with liver spots, men with big square hands and legs shaped like bowling pins. It is a question of using finely pulverized, dense coffee, cold and anhydrous, consumed on an empty stomach. This coffee falls into your stomach, a sack whose velvety interior is lined with tapestries of suckers and papillae. The coffee finds nothing else in the sack, and so it attacks these delicate and voluptuous linings; it acts like a food and demands digestive juices; it wrings and twists the stomach for these juices, appealing as a pythoness appeals to her god; it brutalizes these beautiful stomach linings as a wagon master abuses ponies; the plexus becomes inflamed; sparks shoot all the way up to the brain. From that moment on, everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination’s orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.” via blissbat.net, and original text here.

23 ♥ / 7 March, 2013

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