1. Notes: 5 / 8 hours ago  from ubu507 (originally from aeillill)
    ubu507:aeillill:John William Waterhouse: Study for The Lady Clare - 1900

    ubu507:aeillill:John William Waterhouse: Study for The Lady Clare - 1900

     
  2. Notes: 9 / 8 hours ago  from uncertaintimes
    uncertaintimes:Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) Flying With America’s Most Famous Female Aviators

    uncertaintimes:Harriet Quimby (1875-1912)

    Flying With America’s Most Famous Female Aviators

     
  3. Notes: 9 / 8 hours ago  from billyjane
    billyjane:Anonymous~Spiritualist Photography (Medium and Ghosts)c.1910 via Musée d’Orsay

    billyjane:Anonymous~Spiritualist Photography (Medium and Ghosts)c.1910

    via Musée d’Orsay

     
  4. Notes: 3 / 9 hours ago  from i12bent
    i12bent:William Stroud (Nov. 8, 1812 - 1889): Sower’s Book, Stationery and Variety Store, Norristown, Pennsylvania (1/2 pl.), 1853 - Daguerreotype, fully silvered Last year’s Stroud daguerrotype on OF

    i12bent:William Stroud (Nov. 8, 1812 - 1889): Sower’s Book, Stationery and Variety Store, Norristown, Pennsylvania (1/2 pl.), 1853 - Daguerreotype, fully silvered

    Last year’s Stroud daguerrotype on OF

     
  5. Notes: 6 / 9 hours ago  from benhasten
    Parsifal - pastel on paper, 1912 benhasten:Odilon Redon (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski “…stripped of his helmet and lance, the warrior has been transformed into a magus, haunted by an inner dream. (…) The rocky shapes in the foreground are reminiscent of the early etchings by Redon, influenced by Rodolphe Bresdin (1822-1885). Thus, Parsifal is one example of the artist returning to an earlier inspiration, references to which can be found in his diary: ‘Oh my soul of former times, distant spirit, you came back to me tonight in the shadows… my nocturnal friend who returns, then leaves, and who I thought had disappeared forever, what brings you back, and at this time? I do not know.’” Via Museé d’Orsay

    Parsifal - pastel on paper, 1912

    benhasten:Odilon Redon (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski

    “…stripped of his helmet and lance, the warrior has been transformed into a magus, haunted by an inner dream. (…)

    The rocky shapes in the foreground are reminiscent of the early etchings by Redon, influenced by Rodolphe Bresdin (1822-1885). Thus, Parsifal is one example of the artist returning to an earlier inspiration, references to which can be found in his diary:

    ‘Oh my soul of former times, distant spirit, you came back to me tonight in the shadows… my nocturnal friend who returns, then leaves, and who I thought had disappeared forever, what brings you back, and at this time? I do not know.’”



    Via Museé d’Orsay



     
  6. Notes: 10 / 1 day ago  from billyjane
    billyjane:obscure find of the day:a_k anonymous photomontage 1880

    billyjane:obscure find of the day:a_k anonymous photomontage 1880

     
  7. Notes: 9 / 1 day ago  from bookmarklet
    Tesla. July 10th, 1856. via pictura poesis

    Tesla. July 10th, 1856. via pictura poesis

     
  8. Notes: 10 / 1 day ago  from i12bent
    i12bent:November 7, 1908 is the likely death-day of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, caught in a Bolivian cross-fire… Image of Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid) and Etta Place, just before they headed to South America…

    i12bent:November 7, 1908 is the likely death-day of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, caught in a Bolivian cross-fire…

    Image of Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid) and Etta Place, just before they headed to South America…

     
  9. Notes: 7 / 1 day ago  from i12bent
    i12bent:Robert LeRoy Parker (alias Butch Cassidy) poses in the Wild Bunch group photo, Fort Worth, Texas, 1901

    i12bent:Robert LeRoy Parker (alias Butch Cassidy) poses in the Wild Bunch group photo, Fort Worth, Texas, 1901

     
  10. Notes: 26 / 1 day ago  from i12bent
    i12bent:Birthday of a great heroine of science: Marie Curie (Nov. 7, 1867 - 1934), one of only two people to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different disciplines, Chemistry (1903) and Physics (1911) (The only other double Laureate across disciplines is Linus Pauling, who got the Prize in Chemistry and the Peace Prize. Two additional double Laureates have received their two Nobels in the same discipline: John Bardeen, twice in Physics; and Frederick Sanger, twice in Chemistry) Madame Curie was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. Her husband Pierre Curie was a Nobel co-laureate of hers, and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and son-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie also received Nobel prizes. Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term coined by her), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. It was also under her personal direction that the world’s first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms (cancers), using radioactive isotopes. (Wiki) Photo of Marie Curie in her Paris lab, 1911

    i12bent:Birthday of a great heroine of science:

    Marie Curie (Nov. 7, 1867 - 1934), one of only two people to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different disciplines, Chemistry (1903) and Physics (1911)

    (The only other double Laureate across disciplines is Linus Pauling, who got the Prize in Chemistry and the Peace Prize. Two additional double Laureates have received their two Nobels in the same discipline: John Bardeen, twice in Physics; and Frederick Sanger, twice in Chemistry)

    Madame Curie was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. Her husband Pierre Curie was a Nobel co-laureate of hers, and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and son-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie also received Nobel prizes.

    Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a term coined by her), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. It was also under her personal direction that the world’s first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms (cancers), using radioactive isotopes. (Wiki)

    Photo of Marie Curie in her Paris lab, 1911

     
  11. Notes: 14 / 1 day ago  from exclamationmark
    exclamationmark:The Pool (1912). Photography by Imogen Cunningham.

    exclamationmark:The Pool (1912). Photography by Imogen Cunningham.

     
  12. Notes: 14 / 1 day ago  from travellinglight (originally from twink)
    Atget ‘Paris’ 1890 travellinglight:twink:adski_kafeteri

    Atget ‘Paris’ 1890

    travellinglight:twink:adski_kafeteri

     
  13. Notes: 11 / 1 day ago  from bookmarklet
    Julia Margaret Cameron~Ellen Terry (aged 17) 1865 - Freshwater via pictura poesis

    Julia Margaret Cameron~Ellen Terry (aged 17) 1865 - Freshwater

    via pictura poesis

     
  14. Notes: 4 / 1 day ago  from bookmarklet
    adski_kafeteri:Guglielmo Plüschow

    adski_kafeteri:Guglielmo Plüschow

     
  15. Notes: 25 / 1 day ago  from ontheborderland
    ontheborderland:Ruth St. Denis in Jephtha’s Daughter, private performance, ca. 1906-08 via images.nypl.org

    ontheborderland:Ruth St. Denis in Jephtha’s Daughter, private performance, ca. 1906-08 via images.nypl.org

     
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