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anatomicalmartyr · 1 year

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Some well known aristocratic beauties of the late Victorian and the Edwardian era as depicted by John Singer Sargent and in photography

Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (1904) // Winifred, Duchess of Portland (1902) // Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1892) // Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland (1904) // Consuelo Vanderbilt in The Marlborough Family (1904/05)

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diioonysus · 2 years

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edwardian & victorian era women

#history #victorian era #vintage photography #women in history #beauty #vintage #1800s #ph #vintage ph #aesthetic #graphics #edwardian era

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shutinthenutouse · 5 days

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brandyschillace · 16 days

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TRANSGENDER people always existed

Hey gang, who is in Chicago? I will be there last week of September, looking for speaking opportunities. Would love to discuss this—the subject of my upcoming book—especially as it’s an election year. The history of trans people goes as far back as, well, people. And the current attacks on trans people have ugly precedent among fascists and right wingers. I have the receipts, and I’ll be in town anyway for a friend… love to set up a gig (helps defray expense of travel).

#support trans rights #trans day of visibility #trans history #trans rights #trans women are beautiful #transgender #transisbeautiful #trans women are real women #jk rowling is a transphobe

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ayandagama · 2 months

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coldwinterwhispers · 3 months

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Serena, Found of Savages by Thomas Benjamin Kennington

#art painting #vintage art #art #art history #women in art #british art #beautiful art #thomas benjamin kennington #british artist #oil on canvas #oil painting #old art #private collection

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tygerland · 7 months

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Artist Bisa Butler has been creating decorative quilts since 2001. Here - in her New Jersey studio - she examines one of her newest works,Young, Gifted and Black, based on a portrait by Black photographer, Roy Francis. (Photos 2023 by Celeste Sloman.)

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blackroseberry22 · 1 year

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Jasmine 🥹

IG:Chola_Girl

#black people #black women #black queen #black is beautiful #black girl #black pride #black history month #black men #black woman shit #blackout #spirtuality #spirtual baddie

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the-cricket-chirps · 8 months

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Rebecca Davis (American)

Star of Lemoyne Quilt

ca. 1846

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lucyvelvett001 · 21 days

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Would you let me suck you on the first date?

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anatomicalmartyr · 1 year

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Franca Florio - The “Star of Italy”

She was nicknamed by her admirers “The Queen of Palermo”, the german Kaiser Wilhelm II called her “The Star of Italy” and writer and poet Gabriele D'Annunzio described her as “a unique woman. A creature whose every movement possesses a divine rhythm” or simply “L’Unica”. She was born Francesca Paola Jacona della Motta dei baroni di San Giuliano, but is known in prosperity as Donna Franca Florio.

The elegant, cultured, lively and intelligent Donna Franca Florio quickly dazzled society after her marriage to entrepreneur and shipowner Ignazio Florio Jr, one of the wealthiest men in Italy. Tall and slender with a 22-24 inch waist and with brilliant green eyes and raven black hair, she was a captivating beauty (if slightly unconventional due to her somewhat dark skin in a time where porcelain skin was valued, even undergoing a painful liquid enmael treatment in Paris in an effort to make her skin paler)

Her wardrobe and sense of style was legendary, with the great fashion designer Jean Philippe Worth calling her the best dressed and most beautiful woman in Italy. Her clothes from the greatest fashion houses and jewelry from Cartier and Lalique were custom made for her, and the outfits worn during her public appearances were lovingly described in papers and magazines. Her jewelry, including a priceless pearl necklace made out of 365 pearls, is said to have outshone even those of the Queen of Italy herself, and was generously given to her by her husband, it is said, as apologies for his frequent infidelities. She did however stop wearing earrings, as they were said to take away from the beauty of her face.

There was however much more to her than good looks and sense of style that made her such a celebrated figure. She was a woman of great intelligence, charisma and artistic taste, and was fluent in german, french and english as well as italian. She had a great ability to make connections with people, which was to great benefit for her entrepreneur husband. She was admired by the Intelligentsia, the artists and intellectuals of her time. Despite her extravagant money spending, she was gifted with great humanity and generosity. She promoted several nurseries, offered trousseaus to orphan girls, made sure her servants children got gifts on christmas, and personally nursed the wounded, and even adopted an orphan, of Messina after an earthquake devastated it in 1908.

Emperor Franz Josef of Austria was also one of her royal admirers, gifting her with a trumpet for her car specifially made to announce his arrival, causing people to stop and salute the car thinking it was the Emperor himself. Also women admired her, such as Queen Elena of Italy, who she was also a lady-in-waiting to, and writers Matilde Serao and Anna Maria Neera Zuccari, the latter whom held her in such high esteem she would consult her for opinions on her literary work. One polish princess Ghiza was allegedly so enchanted with her after meeting her once at a hotel, she declared her love for her in a long letter and continued to admire her from afar.

Despite all this attention, she never had any affairs and remained loyal to her husband and family. Beneath the glamourous facade she also suffered great personal anguish with three of her five children dying in their childhood, her husband’s cheating and scandal mongering, and eventually the Florio family’s economic collapse. After the bankruptcy of Ignazio Florio Jr., Donna Franca retreated to the Villa Silviati, belonging to the husband of her daughter Costanza Igiea Florio. She died there on 10 November 1950.

Under her and her husband’s patronage, Palermo blossomed into a cosmopolitan city and their mark is still visible to this day.

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vintage-old-hollywood · 15 days

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Marilyn Monroe

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blxckluxxury · 2 months

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Black Ex-cel-lence

#black twitter #black women #blackexcellence #aesthetic #spirituality #positivity #neo soul #blm #✊🏽#black tumblr #blacklivesmatter #black is beautiful #black history

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ayandagama · 27 days

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South African women

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coldwinterwhispers · 3 months

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Odelisque by Francesco Hayez (1867)

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mimi-0007 · 9 months

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Loletha Elayne Falana or Loletha Elaine Falana (born September 11, 1942), better known by her stage name Lola Falana, is an American singer, dancer, and actress.

#lola falana #black history #black tumblr #black literature #black excellence #black community #black girl magic #dancer #american singer #american actress #beautiful black women #beautiful #talented

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