HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!

BEAUTY: Painting--Men of Antiquity, Part Sixteen

In a continuing series (previous entries seen here), here are, yet again, a lot of handsome-ass men from long ago...

Top to bottom: Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret--Portrait de Bernard Wolff; Philip de László--Portrait de Armand de Gramont, duc de Guiche; Philip de László--Portrait of John de László; Roger Eliot Fry--Portrait of Edward Carpenter; Samuel Lanyi--Self Portrait, 1840; Sidney Edward Dickinson--Young Painter, 1917; Thomas Lawrence--Portrait of David Lyon; William L'Engle (American, 1884-1957)--Self Portrait; William Shackleton (British, 1872 - 1933)--Self Portrait; Władysław Czachórski--Portrait of Stanisław Czachórski (1853–1904), artist’s brother, 1886

BEAUTY: Painting--Men of Antiquity, Part Fifteen

In a continuing series (previous entries seen here), here are, yet again, a lot of handsome-ass men from long ago...

Top to bottom: Eliseu Visconti--Self-Portrait (1898); Glyn Warren Philpot, British 1884-1937--Man in a Flying Jacket, 1916; Jacek Malczewski--Portrait of Michala Gorstkina Wywiorski, painted 1892; Jean-Léon Gérôme--Le Comte de la Rochefoucauld et duc de Doudeauville; Lawrence Alma-Tadema--Portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow; Leo Gestel--self portrait; Luigi Serena--Autoritratto, 1876; McClelland Barclay--LTJG R.F. Lynch, Jr., 1943; Merry-Joseph Blondel--Portrait of Maréchal de Bourdillon

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025!

Holiday Decor 2024

Tabletop tree in the home of James Coviello

Garland and bells by Amanda from Aunt Peaches

Orange, clove, and eucalyptus on the mantel by The Sisters Bloom

Vintage ornaments on tabletop trees by Atta Girl Says

Ornaments 2024

Clip-on candle ornaments by John Derian

Vintage pine cone ornaments from Darryl Moland at The Decorated Tree

Vintage ornaments collected by Cackie Trippe McCarty
at Glittermoon Vintage Christmas

BEAUTY: Collage--Waldemar Strempler

Loving these recent collage creations from German artist Waldemar Strempler. The use of antique paper, vintage books, and bits of worn ephemera adds a fantastic texture.

https://stremplerart.tumblr.com/

BEAUTY: Painting--Men of Antiquity, Part Fourteen

In a continuing series (previous entries seen here), here are, yet again, a lot of handsome-ass men from long ago...

Top to bottom: attributed to Raphaël Collin--Portrait de Paul Victor Grandhomme; Caroline Hall--Mr Philipps’ Nephew (Captain the Honourable Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps, in the Uniform of the Horse Guards); Carolus-Duran--Portrait de Georges Feydeau; Edward Clifford--Tito Melema; Fra Lippo Lippi--Edward Robert Hughes; Giovan Battista Moroni--Portrait of a 29 Year Old Man; Ilya Efimovich Repin--Portrait of Yurkevich; James Tissot--Self Portrait