fuck yeah art history

daisypies:

Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948

centuriespast:

LIMBOURG brothers
Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry: Mars (March)
1412-16
Illumination on vellum, 22,5 x 13,6 cm
Musée Condé, Chantilly

Eadweard Muybridge’s 
The Horse in Motion 1872

Do All of a Galloping Horse’s Hooves Leave the Ground?

In 1872, Eadweard Muybridge, a British-born photographer, was hired by Leland Stanford (who later founded the university), to settle a question (some people say a $25,000 bet) whether there was a point in a horse’s full gallop where all four hooves were off the ground.

Muybridge arranged 12 cameras alongside a race track and attached a string to the camera switches across the track. When the horse ran through the string, it triggered the shot. The series of photographs showed that indeed, all four hooves leave the ground when the horse is in full gallop.

Muybridge went on to develop systems and techniques to photograph motion of people and animal.

excerpt from The Wonderful World of Early Photography

fuckyeahdessert:

(via why i oughta)

fuckyeahtattoos:

Scott Santee via

amandalane:

lapetitechouette:

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les Grands Boulevards, 1875

lapetitechouette:

butterfliesinmyhair:

Peace and War

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1776

bigbitchmarii:

18thcentury:

charlottecorday:

Portrait of Miss Eleanor Urquhart by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1793.

this is so nice…

suicideblonde:

exclamationmark:

Autumn Leaves (1856) by John Everett Millais.

John William Waterhouse- My Sweet Rose
1908