John Singer Sargent (American, worked in Britain) • The Countess of Rocksavage (Sybil Sassoon) • 1922 • Private collection
Gallery text (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; special exibition: Fashioned by Sargent) :
Severe and frontal, Sargent's painting gives Sybil Sassoon the status and authority of an old master portrait. He must have had something deliberate in mind when he painted this, late in his career, since he was the one to order Sybil's dress from the House of Worth (displayed nearby). Its design resembles a 16th-century portrait of the queen of Spain, Anna of Austria, a member of the powerful Habsburg dynasty. The distinctive gold brooch in the shape of a double-headed eagle is the Habsburg insignia, and the jewel appears in both paintings. Sybil's brother Philip, a connoisseur and collector, owned the brooch, as well as the significant rope of pearls Sybil wears, which had been their mother's.
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summer interior, edward hopper // girls against god, florence + the machine
[ID: An oil painting of a woman resting on the floor beside a bed with sunlight streaming in through a window beside her. The painting is in shades of pale yellow, green, blue, orange, and dark red. The lyrics “When I decided to wage holy war, / it looked very much / like staring at my bedroom floor” have been placed on top in white in all caps. The first part of the lyrics are curved around the end of the bed and the second part of the lyrics are angled along where the wall and floor meet. /end ID.] ID by @britomart
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IN DEFENSE OF JAEHAERA TARGARYEN
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, Torrin A. Greathouse) // Eduard Veith - Mother and child // Under The Regents, Fire and Blood.
lyanna stark || elia martell || sansa stark || arya stark || alicent hightower || jaehaera targaryen || cersei lannister || myrcella baratheon || joanna lannister || aemma arryn || catelyn stark || sansa stark (2) || margaery tyrell
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Massive love and shoutout to Hindus, Iranians, and Indians who have shown so much love and support for Jews and Israel since the war started. Jews have a long memory and we do not forget who stood with us when it mattered.
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V. the earth
crashes into the wall at the speed of sound, instantly shattering every bone in my body
this started as body practice referencing roberto ferri’s “redemption”, which has SUCH beautiful anatomy and lighting to learn from. the quickly got derailed into secret life art because the last episode has been rotating in my mind like a microwave
also tem pointed out that sunflower were pearl’s symbolic flower in empires s1 if anyone needs me im rotting
also the hand is PEARL 🙅🏻♀️this is not desert duo 🙅🏻♀️ go back to the desert /silly
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I think a lot about this painting that was, presumably, given to Fernando at the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix, which there is just zero explanation for it, other than these pics:
Where is it now????? It better be hanging up in a place of honor in one of his houses istg!
But what makes this better is that after he crashed out from that race, he tweeted a samurai quote 😭 I like to imagine him just nonsensically mumbling samurai quotes while staring at this painting in despair
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