#Diana Bathing

[arthist0rian]

Diane sortant du bain (Diana Bathing), François Boucher, 1742

Boucher was one of the most famous and appreciated painters of the reign of Louis XV. His works in soft colors, theatrical staging and sinuous forms are closely associated with the rococò style that spread in France in the architecture and decorative arts of the first half of the 18th centuryCardinal elements for the painting of Bouchers is love, the art of courtship as a mundane rite.

With him Deities such as Venus and Pan are the main protagonist of his painting. Mithological, pastoral and historic themes are interpreted according with the ideal elegant lifestales, frivoulus and aristocratic of his contemporary society.

He became the favorite painter of Madame de Pompadou.

His style tends to the exaltation of beauty and erotism: his major works have bourgeois room, alcove and boudoirs in wich the authors depics the naughty atmospheres, dayly gestures or minimal aspects, but with always refinement and great tonal rendering, especially with complexion.

In Diana bathing the feminine nude is carefully exibited in an intimate gestures and pictorial rendering of the satin skin is aimed to enter the imagination of the spectators through the senses, making a sort of complicity between us and the two women. It's also a study on the ideal beuty of the human body. The pearly skin is in contrast with the green shades that dominates the painting. Diana forms a diagonal that extends into the blue hanging.

He rapresents Diana, the roman goddess of hunting, the moon and protector of wild animals and nature. She was the twin og the god Apollo. We can be sure about her identity because she is depicted with her identifying object, such as the bow, the quiver and the small crescent moon on her forehead. She is accompanied by a young girl who is helping her exiting the bath, a relaxed moment after a hunt. There are also hunting dogs on the left. I like to think this are the previus moment before the goddes discover Acteon spying on her.

#diana #arthemis #art academia #dark academia #art #art history #light academia #painting #academia #chaotic academia #classic academia #francois boucher #diana bathing #rococò #naughty art #greek mythology #greek deity #ancient greek #acteon #louvre #collection of Louvre

[the-evil-clergyman]

Diane sortant de son bain by Guillaume Dubufe (1893)

#guillaume dubufe #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academism #academicism #academic art #painting #french art #french artist #mythology #roman mythology #diana #artemis #roman goddess #bath #classic art

[diioonysus]

artemis & diana + art

#diana the huntress by guillaume seignac: diana #diane the hunter by giuseppe cesari: diana #diana the hunter by giovanni pietro rizzoli #diana and cupid by pompeo batoni #diana returning from the hunt by francois boucher #diana the huntress by unknown #the death of chione by nicolas poussin #diana by pierre-auguste renoir #diana by simon vouet #diana and actaeon by titian #diana and callisto by peter paul rubens #diana and endymion by francesco solimena #diana and her companions by johannes vermeer #diana bathing by fancois boucher #the bath of diana by jean antoine #diana and callisto by jean baptiste marie pierre #diana bathing by jean-baptiste-camille #diana hunting by pedro pablo rubens #apollo and diana attacking the children of niobe by jacques louis david #diana at the bath by james ward #diana preparing for hunting by angelica kauffman #the hunt of diana by paolo de matteis #diana bathing by baron antoine jean gros #diana of the hunt by john byam liston shaw #room of diana and actaeon by parmigianino #artemis by trung cao #diana and endymion by walter crane #diana and endymion by nicolas poussin #diana by rosalba carriera #diana the slayer by guercino

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Diana at the Bath (detail), c. 1830. James Ward

#Diana at the Bath #art #James Ward #English artist #romanticism #artedit #art detail

[doll-elvis]

“Mesmerizing me with a deep kiss, he pulled me down to sit beside him on the bed, gradually moving his lips from my mouth to my cheek and down my neck to my shoulder, until I was tingling all over. ‘Are you okay?’ His warm breath on my skin made me shiver. ‘Very okay,’ I whispered. Taking the straps in his teeth, he removed my gown from my shoulders, letting the top fall to my waist, as he kissed his way down to my navel. I stroked his hair and lowered my head, nuzzling the back of his neck, breathing the warm, spicy smell of him. ‘Can we lie down?’ he murmured against my bare stomach, and we slid beneath the covers. For a few moments, we lay very still, in each other’s arms, and I’d never felt safer than right there…”

oh to be in the arms of elvis presley, feeling his warmth and inhaling his scent 😭

(excerpt from “Hollywood lights, Nashville nights” by Diana Goodman)

#he’s warm!!!! #I’m suing for emotional damage #brb as a bathe in a bottle of brut to simulate this #oh to feel his hair against my bare stomach #he was just so gentle and loving 😭 #diana goodman #big daddy elvis #elvis presley #elvisaaronpresley #elvis #i love him #elvis book excerpts

[7pleiades7]

Diana at the Bath (1830) by James Ward RA (1769–1859), oil on panel, 76.2 × 64.8 cm, Signed and dated lower left: "JWR 1830", Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven

#diana at the bath #james ward #royal acade #royal academy of arts #royal academician #diana #goddess #mythology #greek mythology #mythological painting #yale #new haven #painting #oil on panel #art #fine art #yale center for british art

[carefulfears]

And my girl Scully figured out that Diana and Phoebe were abusive to him and that’s why she was ready to disintegrate them with whenever they breathed Mulder’s air iktr. (Also to me that’s part of the reason Mulder was oblivious and defended them, people who are in abusive relationships are not always aware of it)

YUPP you’re literally dead right, anon, in my opinion. it really bugs me when people talk shit about mulder for “trusting” both phoebe and diana, as though that’s not like…the only thing he’s been taught to do.

i’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between scully’s reactions to phoebe vs. diana. when phoebe showed up, scully had only known mulder for a few weeks. and still she knew almost instantly that something wasn’t right.

i didn’t notice until i rewatched fire the way that she never leaves him alone with her. if mulder and phoebe are working on something, you can see scully. against the wall, peeking around the door, pacing in the hallway. he tells her that she’s “off the hook,” that he’s not going to “put her through this” with “phoebe’s little mind games,” and she takes it upon herself to investigate phoebe’s case herself, until she solves it and phoebe can go the fuck home.

girlbosses catch serial murderers singlehandedly to get their best friend’s shitty ex away from them.

when phoebe was around, scully is passive aggressive as hell. constantly hanging around and making little quips and mocking her accent.

when diana shows up? five years later? she’s just aggressive.

she said nah, we aren’t doing this again 😭😭

(one of my favorite scully moments is when she snaps “and not just because i think that woman is a….well, you know what i think that woman is” and mulder is just like “no you hide your feelings sooo well” lmfao)

i really do think meeting phoebe so early in their partnership informs a lot about the way scully reacts to his exposure and relationship to other people throughout the series. she really doesn’t trust a soul around him.

i always think of this line from madness by kittenscully (a post-syzygy fic, addressing the detective white incident):

“A surge of righteous indignation at the notion makes her sit up straighter, and she bites her tongue to avoid a very unpleasant comment from slipping out. As always, she thinks of Phoebe, of his wide, trusting eyes.”

diana was scary levels of manipulative and violating. but diana loved mulder, scully knew that and used that to plead with her in the end.

phoebe didn’t care about anything but playing with fire. she got off on scaring him, crossed state lines just to fuck with his head and hurt him, just like in their relationship a decade earlier. mulder knew this, he knew from the start what she was doing and what she wanted, and he helped her anyway. he praised her anyway. he connected with her and invested in her anyway.

y’all know i’m always thinking about the script note about phoebe’s coldness “eliciting some old need in him to have her affection.”

by the time diana came back around, scully had sat on the floor of a hotel and watched phoebe smile and shake hands with bureaucrats while mulder couldn’t breathe.

scully had stood in the next room when his questions to his mother got him little more than a slap to the face.

it’s different with diana because there’s a lot more history and connection there, and because at that point there is heartbreak and jealousy on scully’s side (when phoebe was in town, she hung around in doorways. when diana reaches for mulder’s hand, she turns around and holds back tears in the car.)

it’s a difficult position for both of them. he doesn’t know how to do anything but appease and trust and be loyal, to help whoever asks. he doesn’t care if it hurts him, he’s been groomed his whole life for that, to feel like he deserves it.

it makes scully crazy. he’s her best friend. she can’t believe anyone would look at that kind of softhearted hope and want to exploit it or crush it, rather than look up to it, follow it, nurture it.

and it hurts!! it hurts to watch him fall back into these traps, and especially with diana, it hurts to feel that your input and relationship doesn’t matter enough to have influence. to not be listened to, to feel like you’re not being chosen.

she doesn’t know that he went to search diana’s apartment after she told him not to trust her. she just heard, “i know her. you don’t. scully, you’re reaching.” and watched him leave.

it’s just this perfect crossroads of each of their most vulnerable spots. scully wants to protect him, always, and she also wants to be chosen.

mulder has to stand by his allegiances, to seek ‘affection’ in cruelty, to play his role in the larger scheme. this is what CSM knew when he recruited diana into the conspiracy, and he knows because he “created” it.

you can’t judge either of them, they’re both following their natures, and furthering the narrative they were chosen for.

(until scully stands in front of diana and begs, “i just want you to think…stand there in front of me, look me in the eye”…and breaks the whole thing down.)

#TLDR children weaned on poison etc etc #LOVE WON IN THE END!! always. scully’s ferocious devotion won in the end #asks #scully baby i hope you got your bubble baths that year #it’s hard. because he Does listen to her and internalize her input #but he also Needs to not lose these last connections and these last people who ‘cared’ about him and to please them and to be what they want #i mean he was like 18 when he met phoebe. ‘she was brilliant. i got in over my head.’ #he and diana were together (married) (to Me) for like 5 years #during one of the most vulnerable periods of his life. and his transition into discovering the files and doing therapy and leaving the VCU #Sigh #i know scully would zip him safely in her pocket if she could but like she also feels so insecure and disregarded when diana is around #so it’s like both her Constant protectiveness and her own intimate emotional response. it’s just a lot. #i love season 6 #‘bum a cigarette agent fowley?’ #👌👌👌 #Diana

[karrova]

Jasper van der Lanen

Diana Bathing in a Woodland Pool (details)

#Jasper van der Lanen #Diana Bathing in a Woodland Pool #m #art

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Diana Vreeland

The origins of contemporary bikini day may be traced back to a French engineer, a Parisian exotic dancer, a nuclear testing site in the United States, and a postwar fabric shortage.

In 1946, Western Europeans joyously greeted the first war-free summer in years, and French designers came up with fashions to match the liberated mood of the people. Two French designers, Jacques Heim and Louis Réard, developed competing prototypes of the bikini. Heim called his the “atom” and advertised it as “the world’s smallest bathing suit.”

French fashion designer Louis Reard was determined to create an even more scandalous swimsuit. Réard's swimsuit, which was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string, was in fact significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 inches of fabric, Réard promoted his creation as “smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit.”

Réard claimed that the bikini was named for Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear tests by the United States in the Pacific Ocean.

Louis Réard's bikini was so little that he couldn't find anyone brave enough to wear it. After being rejected by a number of fashion models, he came across Micheline Bernardini. She was a 19-year-old nudist at the Casino de Paris who consented to be the first to try on his daring bikini. Michelle Bernardini debuted this revealing costume at the Piscine Molitor in Paris during a poolside fashion show, and it revolutionised swimwear on 5 July 1946. The bikini was a hit, especially among men, and Bernardini received some 50,000 fan letters.

Before long, bold young women in bikinis were causing a sensation along the Mediterranean coast. Spain and Italy passed measures prohibiting bikinis on public beaches but later capitulated to the changing times when the swimsuit grew into a mainstay of European beaches in the 1950s. Réard's business soared, and in advertisements he kept the bikini mystique alive by declaring that a two-piece suit wasn’t a genuine bikini “unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.”

But it really took when what we would call cultural influencers took to it. It was in 1953, thanks to Brigitte Bardot, that the bikini became a "must-have" and the history of the bikini became historic, when she was photographed wearing one on the Carlton beach at the Cannes Film Festival. She also wore one in 1956, in the film "Et Dieu… créa la femme".

The United States also caught on to the trend, as it was only two years later that Ursula Andress posed in a white bikini on the poster for the James Bond film, Dr. No. The poster created a considerable marketing coup, and women adopted the bikini. According to a study by Time, 65% of younger women adopted the bikini in 1967.

There is no question the bikini is hardly modern. Many think they date back to ancient Roman times because of the murals uncovered in excavated ruins in Sicily. This isn’t really true.

Despite the celebrated images from the mosaics in Piazza Armerina, of the ancient Roman girl wearing what looks like a bikini, the answer is, “not really”.  The ancient Roman girls weren’t even first to wear what to our eyes looks like a bikini. However, the fact that we seem to find “bikinis” in ancient depictions should make us rethink our hubristic bias that we in modern times have invented everything and that people in ancient times didn’t know how to live.

Archaeologists have found evidence of bikini-like garments that date to as far back as 5600 BC. That’s roughly 5000 years before the Romans did so. In the Chalcolithic era of around 5600 BC, the mother-goddess of Çatalhöyük, a large ancient settlement in southern Anatolia, was depicted astride two leopards while wearing a bikini-like costume.

Two-piece garments worn by women for athletic purposes are depicted on Greek urns and paintings dating back to 1400 BC. In fact, even just the notion that women participated in sports in the ancient world should make us sit up and take notice.

Today we tend to imagine women in the ancient world as being practically sequestered in their homes, spinning, weaving and having babies. But this is a gross oversimplification of their role.

Active women of ancient Greece wore a breast band called a mastodeton or an apodesmos, which continued to be used as an undergarment in the Middle Ages. While men in ancient Greece abandoned the perizoma, partly high-cut briefs and partly loincloth, women performers and acrobats continued to wear it.

In the famous mosaics to be found at Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, the girls who seem to be wearing the “bikini” are Roman and the so-called bikini had already been around for at least 5,000 years by then. In the artwork “Coronation of the Winner” done in floor mosaic in the Chamber of the Ten Maidens (Sala delle Dieci Ragazze) in Sicily the bikini girls are depicted weight-lifting, discus throwing, and running.

The bikini was gradually done away as Christianity became more influential as the centuries wore on. Christian attitudes towards swimming restricted the clothing of women for centuries, the bikini disappeared from the historical record after the Romans until the early 20th century with Louis Beard’s re-invention of the two piece bathing suit as the ‘bikini’.

Photos: In 1956 Emilio Pucci designed this bikini inspired by the mosaics of the Villa Romana Del Casale in Sicily.

#vreeland #diana vreeland #bikini #femme #history #fashion #style #woman #louis reard #bathing suit #beach #ancient rome #ruins #inspiration #ancient world #bikini atoll #atomic bomb #paris #italy #sicily #culture #society

[nupaintings]

#James Ward - Diana at the Bath (1830)

[divinekangaroo]

just enough to let me drown - pettiot - Peaky Blinders (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3 | ?

During S6-E5, starting with Tommy meeting Diana at the narrowboat, how he gets back to Arrow, that particular Dinner, through to Tommy returning home after dropping Jack Nelson off at the train.

Tommy was running out of women who didn’t look like other women. If Lizzie found out, he’d have only redheads left to fuck in his old age.

No. No old age. Only this.

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Diana Mitford/Tommy Shelby, Diana Mitford/Oswald Mosley, Past Oswald Mosley/Tommy Shelby, Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark, Past Oswald Mosley/Lizzie Stark, Jack Nelson, Charles Strong, Small Heath Sex Worker | Reference to Incest, Dehumanisation, Cigarette Burns, Disassociation, Racism, Class Issues, Intrusive Thoughts, Extremely Dubious Consent, Post Rationalisation, Flashbacks, Dyfunctional Relationship, Self Harm, Oral Trauma, Trauma, Plausible Deniability, Close POV/Unreliable Narration, Horrible Dinner Parties, Prostitution, Shame, Hurt/Comfort, Eating Inedible Objects, Vomiting, Pre-Seizure Markers, Where Fascism becomes a Personally Targetted Sexual Nightmare, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Falling Off the Wagon, Unreliable Memory, Hoarding, Orgasm Control, Innuendo, Ethnic Slurs, Trying (so fucking hard!) to Communicate (emotion is the enemy of oratory!), Spiralling, Purposeful Ambiguity, Failed Love Confession/s

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#my writing #peaky blinders #peaky blinders fanfic #diana x mosley #diana x tommy #tommy x lizzie #lizzie x mosley #jack nelson #not 100% happy with this but keep re-writing it and it keeps coming back to them doing the same thing but with different words so oh well #wasn't sure if i wanted to put in an interlude or do this as a standalone but it felt better sitting in this fic #because of the link: the perfume lizzie smells on tommy is the perfume on diana; which diana bought purely to match gina's perfume- #-because diana smelled gina's perfume on mosley. so all in all that's gina's perfume lizzie's smelling on tommy #because it's that kind of Scene yanno XD #i couldn't quite wangle it to have Jack smell Gina's perfume on Tommy because no way would Tommy not bathe #plus the other purpose of the interlude to play delicately along the line of how independent Diana is acting #i did debate about finishing my Holford fic first (that final chapter plays along this line heavily) but just really want to finish this on #i might come back and edit this interlude to see if i can be happier with it; tbc

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

ever since I instituted my read-a-Wynne-Jones-cover-to-cover tradition, Labor Day is becoming one of my favorite holidays

#- HK #last year (or the year before I can’t recall if I traveled last year) it was Charmed Life #this year it was The Lives of Christopher Chant #i even had time to take an Everything Shower and a eucalyptus bath before starting #and it’s been the loveliest day #covered my TV with a blanket until dinner time #lit a candle. made some tea & espresso #left my phone charging in the kitchen such that i missed three (3) calls from my mother 😬 #and as I lay me down to sleep I now #have a reinvigorated desire to write because Diana always does that for me #mobile #x #DWJ

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Charles-Victoire-Frederic Moench (French, 1784-1867) Diana surprised in the bath by Actaeon

#Charles-Victoire-Frederic Moench #Charles Victoire Frederic Moench #french art #greek mythology #mediterranean #mythological art #art #mythology #classical art #diana #female figure #female #woman #female nude #diana surprised in the bath by Actaeon #actaeon #european #european art #europe

[dianafishkiss]

#HELP ME!!!!! #alan cumming #fuck i love bath time sm this is crazy #this is awesome i just love this guy #gorgeus. unparalleled #fave #rest in peace diana tho lol #my screenshots

[marzipanandminutiae]

fun Pride celebration idea for cishets: give me money to buy more antique lesbian cameos

#pride #lgbt #the pinnacle of allyship truly #there's one at that store in Salem of Diana and her nymphs bathing and We Wants It Precious

[angel-ranger]

fuck the king, save the people.

#coronation #diana's ex husband #like what do you mean some of the kids i teach have food insecurity #or cant afford to bathe more than once a week #but charlie boy gets a fucking golden carriage? #fuck the king #save the people