Nénuphar

向島 (向島百花園)

Konstantin Razumov, Le rouge à lèvre

“Jeune femme en tenue de soirée assise près d'un bouquet d'hortensias” (1896) (detail) by Jules Louis Machard (1839-1900).

“Correspondence” (detail) by Frédéric Soulacroix (1858-1933).

Miss Alice Lewis [detail] - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Wladyslaw Czachórski. Detail from Resting Beauty, 19th Century.

Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877-1958), Vanity, 1907.

Cesare Augusto Detti (details)

The Book of Kells is a stunningly beautiful manuscript containing the Four Gospels. It is Ireland’s most precious medieval artifact, and is generally considered the finest surviving illuminated manuscript to have been produced in medieval Europe. As many as ten different colors were used in the illuminations, some of them rare and expensive dyes that had to be imported from the continent. The workmanship is so fine that some of the details can only be clearly seen with a magnifying glass.