met-cloisters:

RoundelThe Cloisters Collection, 1936 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Pot-metal glass, colorless glass, and vitreous paint

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beautifulmedievalmanuscripts:

Epistres d’Ovide and three French poems

MASTER OF THE CHRONIQUE SCANDALEUSE, FRANCE, PARIS, C. 1493

This stunningly beautiful manuscript was made for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France. The compilation includes French translations of Ovid’s epistolary poems and three French poems that were written for a highly exclusive audience.

Source

met-robert-lehman:

Watchcase cover: Perseus and Andromeda by Jean II Reymond, Robert Lehman Collection

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Painted enamel, partly gilt, on copper; mounted on brass; silver-gilt frame.

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/460604

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artofrestraint:

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
The Birth of Aphrodite, 1887

artofrestraint:

Gustave Moreau
Evening Voices, circa 1885

arsvitaest:

Moth (Saturnia pavonia?) in a floral border,
Breviary of Mary of Savoy, Lombardy ca. 1430.
Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 4, fol. 495v

Thanks to discardingimages

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leserpente:

Albert Saverys. Belgian (1886 - 1964)

Les tournesols / Sunflowers, 1921. 

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cult-figure:

Jan Van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece ~ 15th century

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koredzas:

Simon Marmion - The Mortification of Vain Pleasure. 1425 - 1489