1760s painting

"Jannetje Goelet Dies" by John Wollaston (1750) in the Mead Art Museum, Amherst

The existence of predominant fashion eras have given us a lot of knowledge and inspiration. It is significant that the era of Rococo fashion brought a revolution in the fashion trend. This artistic…

I randomly stumbled across the Historical Movie Costume tumblr and was scrolling through it when I came across one of the most persistent myths in historical costuming: Buttons aren’t period …

Lady Milner (née Miss Mordaunt). Devis, Arthur (British, 1708-1787). British School. Oil on canvas, height 50.8 cm, width 35.5 cm; height, frame, 66 cm, width, 50.8 cm, depth, 6.5 cm, 1760.

(A lecture by Plinio Correa de Oliveira) Most Reverend Monsignor Director of this Academy, Gentlemen Academicians: A simple listing of the titles with which she was known during her short life as Marie Antoinette of Hapsburg, and later Marie Antoinette of Bourbon, brings to memory the series of extraordinary and unforeseen events that together make […]

Madame de Pompadour was one of the most influential women of the XVIII century,right along with Empresses Maria Theresa of Austria and Catherine the Great of Russia.This is illustrated in an anecdote that Emperor Frederick II of Prussia,not known for his love of women,had three of his favorite female dogs named after the three women.Madame de Pompadour was also one of the most painted and portrayed women of her day,her portraits sculptures and objets-d'art grace many museums around the…

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