Eugene de Blaas (Austrian, 1843-1931) The veiled woman (1882)

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Eugene de Blaas (Austrian, 1843-1931) The veiled woman (1882)

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Audrey Hepburn Look-Alike
Am I the only one who sees the resemblance between these two lovely ladies?š š¤š·
The woman in that painting, āA Young Beauty in a White Hatā by Franz Xaver Simm,ā looks notably like a 19th century Audrey Hepburn to me.
July is such a dramatic monthššš§Ø
Am I the only one who thinks this way?
If you think about it, July has historically been such a theatrical, temperamental month where so many significant, showy things happened:
For one, July is on average the hottest month of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
The U.S. gained independence on July 4, 1776 (and now the whole month of July has become synonymous with large, booming explosions of color and firework displays)
Canada did so July 1, 1867 (happy Canadian Independence Day!)
The French Revolution started July 1789 (the Bastille was raided July 14)
Alexander Hamilton was shot dead July 1804
My dear Percy Shelley died July 8, 1822
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in early July 1863, and turned out to be the bloodiest and most important battle in the American Civil War
WWI started July 28, 1914 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated
The Romanov family was brutally murdered on July 17, 1918
The world's first nuclear detonation happened July 16, 1945 (Trinity Test)
Evita Perón passed away on July 26, 1952
The first moon landing with Apollo 11 happened July 20, 1969
In the song "Young and Beautiful," Lana del Rey specifically mentions how fun and wild "mid July" was
The whole month was named after Julius Caesar (already a highly dramatized figure, who was also born in that month in 100 BCE)
Even the Disney film Frozen is specifically set in July (not winter) with Elsa dramatically freezing everything
On a more personal note, July exactly one decade ago was the first time I had moved away that I remember. Also, July a few years ago was when I got my first official job
Honestly, December is so overrated. They call it "March Madness" but the real chaos has far more often unfolded four months later.
Idc if the summer heat made people crazy or what (probably, coming from someone currently suffocating in Midwestern heat), but July definitely deserves special attention!š
Even the tragic deaths feel like dramatic opera scenes rather than flat out "depressing" (hence why Anastasia, Evita, and Hamilton became musicals) :)
Day Dress
c. 1855
White silk and wool mixed organdy with print; double-tiered skirt with border pattern; pagoda sleeves with fringe.
England
The Kyoto Costume Institute
Historical Faves: Mary Wollstonecraft
Everyoneās attention is always directed to her inimitable daughter, Mary Shelley (revolutionary and most famously the author of Frankensteinā¦talk about a genetic goldmine!). But letās not forget her equally-brilliant, vastly underrated mother, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Born in 1759 to a prosperous, but broken family, she learned moral responsibility and speaking out from a young age when she defended her mother against her drunken, abusive father. Her father had squandered the family wealth with unwise financial decisions (as well as alcohol and gambling), causing financial instability and consequently forcing them to move frequently. Incensed at the lack of educational opportunities she had compared to her brother, Ned, she strove on her own, working as an educator and a governess, inspiring her later works as a writer.
She most famously wrote āA Vindication of the Rights of Womanā in 1792. She demanded that women be treated and viewed equally to men, and advocated for the rights of the poor, the enslaved, and staunchly called for abolition. She also excoriated the French Revolution for its bloodshed and brutality, on top of its continuation to deny women their deserved rights.
She tragically passed away in 1797 at 38 years old from childbed fever, ten days after giving birth to her namesake second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who would continue her motherās absolute badass legacy.
Maryās life absolutely scandalized the public when her grieving widower, William Godwin, published a biographical memoir of her the year after her death, from her almost anachronistic views on womenās place in society to the daughter she had borne out of wedlock (Fanny Imlay), to her multiple suicide attempts. It wasnāt until the First Wave Feminist Movement more than a century later that Wollstonecraft became truly recognized as a pioneer and trailblazer for feminism and equality. And even then, only by the suffragists themselves. Opponents made her legacy a double-edged sword, striking back with the āscandalsā such a radical had stirred.
Let us also give her the recognition and appreciation she deserves. No joke, one time in my human development class, we were supposed to choose a theorist to write an essay about, and one of my peers said she wanted to write about Wollstonecraft. My professor said sheād never heard of this theorist, and asked my friend to clarify who āheā was. HE!!!!!!!!! How fuming Mary would beā¦
I wrote this post while at a bookstore lol
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. Her A Vindication of the Rig
Library Guides: Mary Wollstonecraft at Notre Dame: Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
Explore the turbulent life and visionary work of Mary Wollstonecraft, remembered by many today as Britain's first feminist.

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House of Worth Evening Dress, French, 1898-1900
From the Met Museum
The French and Russian Revolutions
The French Revolution (1789) and Russian Revolution (1917) mirrored each other in SO many ways. Both families inherited the throne at the worst time and place, hated by the working class for their supposedly āluxuriousā lives, when in reality they were under house arrest for long periods, living lonely and humbly. The queens were foreigners subject to scapegoating and libel. The kings, though indecisive, were very loyal and devout husbands/fathers, valuing family over the crown (although I love and crush on Louis XVI because he was much, much cuter, less bigoted, and less bloody than Nicholas II). They did charity and volunteer work despite their reputations to the common folk. They were forced to live in great discomfort and harsh conditions during their last days. They were unfairly murdered, their monarchies replaced by autocracies which, although did undeniably lead to some significant, foundational positive reform, simultaneously led to all the more bloodshed and turmoil than the royal families ever caused. Also people romanticize them WAY too much (especially on TikTok, Pinterest, Tumblr). History rhymes.
Zelda Fitzgerald (1920s, location unknown).
source : pinterest.
Historical Moral Alignment Chart
Their outfits were once considered āshockinglyā risquĆ©
When by todayās standards, theyād all be unbelievably classy, modest, and overdressed!
Also a bit overdue, but happy late 100th birthday to Marilyn Monroe! ā¤ļøā„ļøšāØš¹š·

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As a child, one of my favorite poems was "The Baby Uggs Are Hatching," by Jack Prelutsky. Today it occurred to me that Budgett's Frogs (Wednesday frog) are, in fact, real life Baby Uggs.
Tumblr seems like the only place that might potentially appreciate this knowledge. So here are the Uggs, as illustrated by James Stevenson, next to some images of Budgett's Frogs I found online.
The baby uggs are snatching as they creep along the beach gobbling every ugly thing within their ugly reach some gobble down each other as across the crags they crawl but the uggs that eat their mothers are the ugliest uggs of all
Wednesday romance
All frogs are good bois but hereās an alignment chart anyway
Here, lawful to chaotic refers to their prioritization of rules, and good to evil are their prioritization of the wellbeing of others. None of these frogs are actually evil as far as I know, but some of them are selfish.
The uncomfortable truth behind this iconic painting
This gorgeous painting of two elegant ladies, one Black and one white, seemingly in equal standing, is so incredibly rare and extraordinary and progressive for the 17th century, right? Not really, when you actually look into it.
This painting is titled āAllegorical Painting of Two Ladiesā by an unknown English artist, c. 1650. As the title suggests, these two women were not actual friends. In fact, they didnāt exist at all. They are imaginary figures, essentially fictional characters, wearing the fashionable facial patches (mouches, āfliesā in French) amongst the aristocracy during the 17th and 18th centuries. This painting was basically a political cartoon of its day, denouncing the wearers of these mouches as being vain and immoral (per the inscription above, "I black with white bespott you white with blacke this evil proceeds from thy proud hart then take her, Devill."
Furthermore, despite the two ladies of different skin colors of equal height and adornment, this painting very much spews the unabashedly racist, xenophobic, Eurocentric, and misogynistic attitudes which were rampant in that era. It is meant to display the European woman on the right being essentially ādragged downā and "tainted" by the āsinfulā African woman on the left. Many associated these patches with traditional body art of Indians, whom the Europeans viewed as ābarbarous,ā so seeing a wealthy European lady donning them was scandalous to them. This sort of moral panic and fear of foreign influence was exacerbated from the turmoil of the English Civil War from around this time.
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A highly unusual 17th-century painting featuring a Black sitter and a white sitter side by side is on rare public view.
Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr
Another of my two historical faves of all time. They absolutely won the genetic lottery and completely annihilate both the stupid, harmful ābeautiful but dumbā and āugly nerdā archetypes.
If someone created a fictional character with their exact qualities, editors and critics would smear āMary Sueā in red pen all over their drafts.

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Queen Marie Antoinette, Known as the Rose Queen (1755-1793)
Artist: Louise-Elisabeth VigƩe Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)
Date: 1783
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette (1755 ā 1793) was Queen of France from 1774 until the fall of the monarchy in 1792 and her subsequent execution during the French Revolution.
Born anĀ archduchess of Austria, she was the penultimate child and youngest daughter ofĀ Empress Maria TheresaĀ andĀ Emperor Francis IĀ of theĀ Holy Roman Empire. She married Louis Auguste,Ā Dauphin of France, in May 1770 at age 14, becoming theĀ Dauphine of France. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as KingĀ Louis XVI, and she became queen.