“Under the thunder-dark, the cicadas resound...
The kisses not for our mouths, light the dark summer.”
— Louise Bogan
from “Dark Summer”

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🎨Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - A Gust of Wind. 1860s, Pushkin Museum

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🧱1860s Amsterdam
Girls with ✨guns & knives✨
💀Vampire hunter and vampire fall in love and hate themselves for it
🗡️A fractured group trying to dismantle the system
🔮Discovery of self and Wanda Maximoff-inspired magic
📚Clockwork Angel but diverse
Art by Sartagos

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1860s corset inspired by Foolish !!

rts appreciated !!
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Stripes for the we’re all the rage in the late a nod to and the occupational dress of those at sea. This surviving gown in sheer layers, practically carries a fresh breeze in its wake with a hint of salty air

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fuck it karl in an 1860s day dress

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Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium - inspired by the practices of mediums, spiritualists, & ideas of The Beyond

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https://t.co/zL8v6qCVoK

pics: Album Page XIV (1860s) Barbara Honywood
& Healing Painting (2016) Vidya Gastaldon

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Did you know the US inspired Russian forced removals? Americans have never heard of the Circassians who are indigenous to the Caucasuses. They were forcibly removed in the 1860s. A Russian official said: “These Circassians are just like your Indians—as untamable and uncivilized”

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His pictures of the 1860s often included either nymphs or peasants. The critics preferred peasants & complained if he included mythological creatures. Mother & Child (c1860), Reverie (1860-5) & the Curious Little Girl (1860-4)

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Calamitous Cassandra: Trojan Priestess of Apollo cursed to utter true prophecies (including the Fall of Troy), but never to be believed. This week's features howling 2 depictions by Frederick Sandys (1860s) plus Evelyn de Morgan (1898 ) & Burne-Jones (1870)

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1860s delinquent

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jonadio as told through cocktails

「1860s: first meeting」

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Parasol, 1860s. The MET.

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His pictures of the 1860s often included either nymphs or peasants. The critics preferred peasants & complained if he included mythological creatures. Mother & Child (c1860), Reverie (1860-5) & the Curious Little Girl (1860-4)

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Charles Howland Hammatt Billings, Landscape with Stream, 1860s https://t.co/NX7ZHMKPTH

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Throughout the 1860s his success & fame grew. In 1867 a major exhibit of his work was shown at the Exposition Universelle. He was appointed Chevalier. Shepherdess & her Flock (1862-3), Louise Millet (c1863) & Study for the Bather (c1863)

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Niadas of the Sea (1860s) by French artist Gustave Dore, a child prodigy who was a painter, sculptor, wood graver, illustrator. His prolific output included this early painting that shows nymphs from Greek mythology. There were 3,000 Naiads, children of Titans Oceanus & Tethys.

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Teresa O’Day grew up along with the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1860s and '70s. As the Bridge grew, so did the shadow over her neighborhood in southern Manhattan. She was a daughter of immigrants who survived the Irish Famine, yet untimely deaths followed her. https://t.co/RwrvgS5CjC

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and i see that the main male silhouette is neoclassical....wide collars and (18th century-like) cravat and short, loose hair

i cant say it is also a victorian, victorian suit is tighter and curvier (or terribly wide in the 1860s)

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Longing & Loss: Four versions of 'Orpheus & Eurydice' (priv.coll, 1860s/ Aberdeen Art Gallery, 1869/ Harvard Mus. c.1880/ Salar Jung Mus. c.1890) for this week's See superb commentaries on the latter by our friends : https://t.co/DmcAB5kCq8

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