Next time you look at an elderly person, remember they were young once.

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labelleotero:

Alexandre de Riquer 1904

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centuriespast:

Designed by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle, The Arming and Departure of the Knights of the Round Table on the Quest for the Holy Grail, 1890-1894, tapestry woven in wool and silk on a cotton warp, 240 x 347 cm (94 1/2 x 136 5/8 in.), Collection of Jimmy Page

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paperkey:

Circle of Elizabeth Shippen Green (American 1871-1954). An Illustration for the Encouragement of Reading - circa 1900. Oil on canvas (loose). Apparently unsigned, the lower margin with faux scroll cartouche inscribed with a variation of the opening stanza of Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘There is no Frigate like a Book.’ 

There is no Frigate like a Book
To bear us leagues away:
Nor any Charger like a page
Of Prancing Poetry.

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a-harlots-progress:

1845

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thevictorianduchess:

Sir Thomas More
Hans Holbein the Younger
Oil on oak panel
c. 1527

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yungbabushka:

pre-raphaelisme:

The End Of The Quest by Frank Dicksee

Gorgeous!

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equivvocal:

Caravaggio (1571-1610), Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Detail)
Oil on canvas, 1597

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steamboatbilljr:

Gary Cooper off the set of One Sunday Afternoon, 1933

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maudelynn:

Mistinguett in the Folies Bergere

by Herbert Mitchell 

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necspenecmetu:

Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli (Il Giampietrino), Christ with the Reed, 16th century

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necspenecmetu:

Frà Stefano da Carpi, The Mass of Saint Seraphin da Montegranaro, 1781

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deforest:

Josephine Baker

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jaded-mandarin:

Santiago Rebull. The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1857.