#aesthetic movement

[life-of-heaven-and-waters]

Albert Joseph Moore. "Battledore". Minneapolis Institute of Art.

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Peach Pink Tea Dress, ca. 1894.

Aesthetic Movement Style.

Augusta Auctions.

[notwiselybuttoowell]

DESIGN Since 1860

Featuring an Aesthetic Interior: The Contents of a London Apartment

(Lyon and Turnbull auction October 2024)

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A Christmas Carol

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)

Date: 1867

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Private collection

Description

A Christmas Carol was described by Rossetti’s studio assistant and friend Henry Treffry Dunn in his unpublished papers as: ‘a maiden in resplendent eastern dress of crimson with a gold thread pattern worked throughout, playing on a stringed instrument whilst she sings “Hodie Jesu Christus natus est Hallelujah”. Rossetti was a great digger of subjects from Early English Mysteries & I conjecture that he must have unearthed this fancy from such a source.’

The connection with female beauty, music and the fashion for exotic decoration and costume were central themes of the emerging English Aesthetic movement – the revolutionary artistic style of the 1860s and 1870s that combined elements of Renaissance, Oriental and Classical styles to create an époque that was to be as important in Britain as Art Nouveau was in Europe. Central to this movement was the female musician, lost in harmonic reverie allowing herself to be observed as she creates beautiful melody but also symbolises beauty itself in its most red-lipped and full-throated incarnation.

The sensuality of music fascinated Rossetti in his Aesthetic canvases. The way in which the elegant hands of the women caress the instruments and their parted lips, have strong sexual implications which are not accidental or merely a post-Freudian interpretation. There is also the suggestion that the act of creating music invites a relationship between the spectator and the viewer and although the melody is of course inaudible, the act of its creation is an invitation for mutual appreciation.

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Driehaus Museum (Nickerson mansion), 1883, 40 East Erie Street, Chicago. Corner of dining room

While Burling and Whitehouse were the architects for the residence, the elaborate interiors were the work of the highly skilled Chicago-based designers R. W. Bates & Co. (est. 1868) and William August Fiedler (1843-1903), along with George A. Schastey & Co. (1873-1897) of New York.

Driehaus Museum

[galleryofart]

Laus Veneris (In Praise of Venus)

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)

Date: 1873-1878

Medium: Oil with gold paint on canvas

[ladycatashtrophe]

The bots across most (if not all) social media platforms have departed from luring their victims with taboo debauchery + instead have landed on fake employment position advertisements that specifically target those who seek to work from home.

If only Oscar Wilde were here.

[ttamarshall]

Aesthetic Movement Bedside Cabinet, Baltic pine with ebony and bone inlay, Laverton & Co, late 19th century

[robotblues]

𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙽𝙸𝙵𝙸𝙲𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙻𝙰𝚁𝙶𝙴 𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚂𝙸𝙻𝚅𝙴𝚁 𝙰𝙻𝙲𝙾𝙷𝙾𝙻 𝙵𝙻𝙰𝚂𝙺. 𝙰𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚃𝙸𝙲 𝙼𝙾𝚅𝙴𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃 - 𝙹𝙰𝙿𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚂𝙴 𝚂𝚃𝚈𝙻𝙴. 𝙲𝚁𝙰𝙱 𝙸𝙽 𝙵𝙸𝚂𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙼𝙰𝙽'𝚂 𝙽𝙴𝚃. 𝙼𝙰𝙳𝙴 𝙱𝚈 𝚆𝙷𝙸𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙼𝙰𝙽𝚄𝙵𝙰𝙲𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙿𝙰𝙽𝚈 - 𝙾𝙽𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙵𝙸𝙽𝙴𝚂𝚃 𝙰𝙼𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙲𝙰𝙽 𝚂𝙸𝙻𝚅𝙴𝚁 𝙼𝙰𝙺𝙴𝚁𝚂 𝙾𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙿𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙾𝙳, 𝙲𝙸𝚁𝙲𝙰 𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟶'𝚂.

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Sarah Paxton Bell Dodson, Honey of the Hymettus, 1891, oil/canvas (DeMell Jacobsen Foundation, Jacksonville)

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✨GRWM to have an affair with Dante Gabriel Rosetti✨

( Bit of Aesthetic dress that I whipped up a couple days ago. Heavily inspired by wrapper gowns, artistic dress, and every image of Jane Morris that has ever blessed my feed.)

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Humour in Verse by Annie French (1872-1965)

French was one of the "Glasgow Girls," a group of women who studied at the Glasgow School of Art and subsequently worked in the city around the turn of the 20th Century. This appears to have been a sketch and scrapbook, filled with words and images both drawn and pasted in. French described it on the title page as "JINGLES/ OVER/ THE/ YEARS."

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Cream Cotton House Dress, Late 1880s.

Aesthetic Movement Style.

Augusta Auctions.

[walzerjahrhundert]

Edward Bierstadt 

Glenview Sitting Room, Looking into the Ebony Library & Glenview Drawing Room/Parlor

circa 1886

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Edward Poynter, Mary Constance Wyndham (Lady Elcho), 1886

Mary leans back on a chaise, gazing into the distance. She is surrounded by aestheticism's accoutrements: a japonaiserie screen; blue and white ceramic vases. Her hair is fashionably shirred; her waist, in her plain mustard-yellow gown, tiny (the envy of her friends, she said proudly). One hand loosely holds a sketchbook, another book lies unopened before her. She looks deep in thought: a beauty with greater things on her mind. [A]ged twenty-four, a mother of two, [...] just a few months after the death of her beloved friend Laura Tennant and while her relationship with Arthur Balfour was growing ever deeper. Mary's family later criticized this portrait as far too solemn. Yet perhaps in Mary's forlorn expression Poynter had seen some of the turmoil in which Mary found herself at this stage of her life. — Claudia Renton, Those Wild Wyndhams

[7i74]

Ave Gustave Moreau. Welcome back Carmelo Bene. Here you are, Nicholas Roerich. Skrjabin, Odilon Redon, Huysmans, I missed you. Come over, Remedios Varo! Fauré, Ravel, come. Rejoice!