jockohomo:

“Art is like life - it shouldn’t be so serious.”  FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied France. An employee of the Louvre, she kept records of the art stolen by Nazi officers- what was taken, from where, and by who. She was instrumental in the postwar return of countless stolen pieces, and one of the most decorated women in French history.

langoaurelian:

kenhatter:

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waterinthemouth:

Gertrude Stein before her art, and Alice’s too, was stolen from them. 

searre:

Mr. William Brymer, 1893

langoaurelian:

Priapic HERM

hard-sophoclean-light:

Programme for Sheherazade (1910) performed in Paris by Ballets Russes. 

editionaladdictions:

The Wave by Christopher R. W. Nevinson, 1917

ancientart:

The Two Dancers. In this Etruscan masterpiece from the Tomb of the Triclinium at Tarquinia, a couple dressed in their finest costume dance into the hereafter.

morphodite:

the baths at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 1917.