#roccoco

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

Schloss Augustusburg, Brühl

[saccharine-dreamer]

Chanel 2024 Fall Couture Collection

[sarafinaparvez]

꧁༺ 𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓸 𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼 ༻꧂

[silk-swan]

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[nataliliv]

Roccoco style painting of women in 18th century formal cloth

[fl0werswillgr0w]

Marble Church, Copenhagen

[urbanrelics]

CANDLE IN THE WIND

An old abandoned candle factory is something you don't get to see very often. Especially one that has been abandoned many years ago, yet still shows no trace of vandalism; only natural decay...

When you see these two 19th century mansions located next to each other, you would not suspect that a gem of industrial heritage is hidden behind the protected rococo facades. Both houses, although empty, still offered some nice corners, but the real surprise lay in the small factory behind them.

The brick building was originally used as a gin distillery, probably in the mid-19th century. However, around the turn of the century it was transformed into a candle factory.

Candles were mainly made for churches and chapels, such as Easter candles. The factory remained active until the mid-1980s and has been frozen in time ever since.

More than 40 years later, the entire building is threatened with demolition to make way for new apartment buildings. However, both houses were included in the inventory of architectural heritage. The permit to demolish all buildings was issued by the city, but was annulled after an appeal procedure before the Council for Permit Disputes. Two years have now passed and there appears to be no further movement in the demolition and construction...

[maertyrer]

Giuseppe Varotti Grisaille with St. Gregory the Great and St Sebastian

Oil on canvas, 42 x 28.5 cm, 18th century

[lolapath]

❥ womanhood

[marystaceylala]

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

Bust of the Apollo of Belvedere in Rundāle Palace, Latvia

[thetudorslovers]

Antoinette's most infamous beauty practice was cleansing with Eau Cosmetique de Pigeon, which, yes, was crafted using the bird itself. According to The Toilette of Health, Beauty, and Fashion, the recipe, popularized by Danish women, included the juice of water lilies, melons, cucumbers, and lemons, as well as the crumbs of French rolls, white whine, and stewed pigeons among other curiosities. After washing up with the concoction, she'd tone her skin with her choice astringent, Eau des Charmes, made of "drops exuded by grapevines in May." Finally, her signature face mask (which is still popular in France today) for a fresh, glowing complexion was made from two teaspoons of circulation-stimulating cognac, 1/3 cup of cell-renewing dry milk powder, brightening lemon juice, and one egg white.

[wandering-jana]

Ballrooms of Schloss Charlottenburg, not far from Central Berlin.

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[glitchedbarbie]

Nina's Marie Antoinette ( Paris )

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[the-cricket-chirps]

Julie Heffernan

2008

[blackmetalmonk]

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