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Gown ca. 1775-80

From the John Bright Collection

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L'Art et la mode, no. 4, vol. 8, 25 décembre 1886, Paris. Dans les bluets, dessin original de Aublet. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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The rule of the assorted Band-aid (or plaster) box is that if you need a big Band-aid, you will only be able to pick small ones out of the box. If, when you come back the next day, needing a small Band-aid, you will only be able to pick large ones out of the box. Don’t ask me why. I don’t make the rules.

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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

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Prague subway tiles

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Snack window at Prague Castle, featuring grog and a happy trash can.

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Pigeons in Prague

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St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Passau, Germany

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Matthias Church ceiling, Budapest

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Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic

October, 2024

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Maria Theresa by Messerschmidt

Upper Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria

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I recently visited the Upper Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria, and out of all the art that was there (Klimt’s The Kiss!), this one intrigued me the most. It’s a portrait carved out of boxwood of Anna Fronleitner by Wiener Bildschnitzer (great name!) from 1533. It’s quite small and located in a case that you have to look down on, not hanging on the wall. Most people in the room didn’t even glance at it, but I couldn’t stop looking at it. It’s not that obvious in the picture but she seems to come right out of the wood and look at you. Who was she? Who loved her? Did she die young? Was that why someone commissioned a portrait? Or was it to find her a husband? She’s described as the daughter of Benedict Fronleitner, so unmarried at the time of the portrait.

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Frauenbildnis - Gustav Klimt. Hanging in the Upper Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria

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Madonna and child, Matthias Church, Budapest

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Amor and Psyche - Theodor Friedl

In the Upper Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria

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Look at hims face

Large Frogmouth (Batrachostomus auritus), mother with chick, family Podargidae, order Podargiformes, found in SE Asia

photograph by Jamil Mat Isa

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Elizabeth I - National Portrait Gallery, London