#barbierealness

[enchantedbook]

'The Songs of Bilitis' illustrated by George Barbier, 1921-1922

[psikonauti]

George Barbier (French,1882-1932)

Cupid from "Le Bonheur du Jour", 1924

[freundinneni]

I lay myself bare before you. What fabric is your heart cut from? Is it silken and soft? Velveteen and plush? Woolen and thick? Whatever it is, cover me with it.

[random-brushstrokes]

George Barbier - Illustration from Les Chansons de Bilitis (1922)

[glossc1]

ganymede playing an aulos🪈with a phorbeia

more ganymede 🍎

[balkanparamo]

Les Chansons de Bilitis: Georges Barbier (1922)

[planetjeezlouise]

Secret Kiss by Georges Barbier

[jstor]

While differing greatly from traditional Tarocchi or tarot cards, this set earned its misleading name because of a few, unimportant similarities. Never a game, scholars generally agree that this set was an educational tool, used to visually describe a fifteenth-century philosophical model of the universe. It was believed that the universe was a ladder-like structure that began with the beggar and rose through the ranks of man, the muses, the liberal arts, the virtues, and the planets, until it finally reached the pinnacle, the dwelling place of God. Reflecting this order, these fifty engravings were divided into five groups of ten: the Conditions of Man; Apollo and the Muses; the Liberal Arts (with three added disciplines–Poetry, Philosophy, and Theology); the Virtues (with three personifications of cosmic principles called "genii"); and the Firmaments of the Universe.

View the full collection of E-series Tarocchi cards on JSTOR.

[justineportraits]

George Barbier (1882–1932) Cupid, illustration from Le Bonheur du Jour ou les Grâces à la Mode 1924

[sculppp]

Academic study ,one model, same position, three different angles, three different painters,1782.

Left: Ferdinand-Nicolas Godefroid

Right: Paul Barbier

Center: Louis-Simon Boizot

[artmialma]

GEORGE BARBIER (1882-1932)

1914

[enchantedbook]

'The Holocaust' by George Barbier, 1915

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Georges Barbier (French, 1882-1932), illustrator • Incantation • illustration for Gazette du Bon Ton • 1922 • Pochoir print • Private Collection

[thefugitivesaint]

George Barbier (1882-1932, 'Der Tanz I' & ‘Der Tanz II’, ''Dekorative Vorbilder'', Vol. 23, 1912.

[53v3nfrn5]

Scheherazade, Georges Barbier, from a series of drawings based on the ballets of Vaslav Nijinsky (1913)

Betrayed by his wife, the king of Persia, Shahriyar, decides to exact vengeance by marrying a different virgin every day and having her put to death after the wedding night. To put an end to the massacre, the daughter of the grand vizier, Scheherazade, offers herself to the sultan. On the evening of the wedding, she begins to tell him a riveting story, but is careful to leave it unfinished. Desperate to learn how it goes on, Shahriyar affords her a stay of execution. Scheherazade continues for one thousand and one nights, at the end of which the sultan abandons his revenge. Captivated by the imagination and the storytelling talents of his new wife, he decides to keep her close by him forever. Intelligent and cultivated, Scheherazade is a positive incarnation of a woman who frees herself from male oppression by her ingenuity and mastery of language.

[mote-historie]

George Barbier, La Belle Personne, Worth evening dress, detail, fashion plate from Gazette du Bon Ton, 1925.