Schloss Sanssouci. x

Upper Belvedere, Grand Staircase, Vienna, Austria,

© Belvedere Vienna,

Courtesy of: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Lìt a la "Good Night 🌉💫"

Bacchus and Ariadne, 1621, Guido Reni

Medium: oil,canvas

The Little Street, 1660, Johannes Vermeer

Medium: oil,canvas

Danae, 1612, Artemisia Gentileschi

Medium: oil

Samson and Delilah, 1610, Peter Paul Rubens

Medium: oil,wood

Study for the head of Apollo, 1630, Diego Velázquez

Medium: oil,canvas

The Judas Kiss, 1660, Luca Giordano

San Giacomo de Rialto, 1726, Canaletto

Medium: oil,canvas

Portrait of Marcello Durazzo, Anthony van Dyck

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/anthony-van-dyck/portrait-of-marcello-durazzo

i have a weird appreciation for Baroque artists, in particular Francois Boucher and Peter Paul Rubens, for depicting the human body in lush detail at a time that predates the standards for bodies to be thin and airbrushed with no wrinkles or cellulite

it’s just really interesting to me

so many the things women are taught to hate about their bodies—pudgy bellies, fat rolls, double chins, and cellulite—used to be ideals of beauty shown in depictions of goddesses

The Defenders of the Church

David, 1620, Guido Reni

Medium: oil,canvas

The Wave, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1917.

pink

Venus, Cupid, Bacchus and Ceres, 1613, Peter Paul Rubens

Medium: oil,canvas

hands in various paintings by artemisia gentileschi

The Forge of Vulcan, 1660, Luca Giordano

if you don’t remember, it will be something that never happened.