Fancies and fictions of Anna Chronique

Acrylic by Travis Louie

frenchpaperartclub:

Dracula by ARANTZAZU MARTINEZ
64” x 38”/ 162 x 97cm. Oil on linen.
John Butler private collection

An academic painter from Vitoria, Spain. Enrolled in the New York Academy of Figurative Art (NYAA) MFA program and graduated in 2002, and then studied at the Water Street Atelier with Jacob Collins.

The technical expertise, the considered compositions, the exceptional treatment of light and the human form are evident and much appreciated in Martinez’s work.
It has the ability to recreate a dream world where magic and fantasy are part of reality.

The quality of her has been recognised internationally; she has been commissioned by Lucasfilm Ltd. to take part in an international project on Star Wars Visions.

Her website here

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Carrie Ann Baade.

The Involuntary Thoughts of Lady Caroline Dubois, 2005. Oil on panel.

Explaining Death to a Rabbit, 2011. Oil on panel.

Coronation of the Emperor Nicholas II in The Uspensky Cathedral

Valentin Serov. 1896. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Wolfgang Lettl. Die Verwandlung (The Transfiguration), 1977.

http://www.lettl.de/

melancholy-requiem:

Tamara and Demon 1889
Konstantin Makovsky

(Source: hellsinging)

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, by John Singer Sargent (1889)
Tate Gallery, London - Oil on canvas

thesunthief:

The Amour of Armor. 

Painting originally in an Iranian story-book. 

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Maximilien de Robespierre, the original Untouchable (L’Incorruptible) and genius badass of oratory bravado and insane workaholic intensity, who basically grabbed hold of a disorganized, bloody French Revolution and made into a world-shaking event.  Able to deliver speeches lasting several hours, straight from memory, powered by a passion for justice that left him able to function without sleep or nourishment and to blow his own jaw off when the end came, he used his bourgeois education and supernatural charisma for the cause of the poorest workers and sans-culottes.  Plus, the guy was unbearably cute, and must have looked hot without HIS culottes!  I think he is very crush-worthy, “terror” be damned!

best Robespierre bio I’ve read

poboh:

A Book At Bedtime, Emma Irlam Briggs. English, (1890-1950)