“A skeleton; half-length; set in an oval frame with hourglasses and skulls and bones”

From a series of six engravings of memento mori by the German artist Alexander Mair, 1605. (source)

fuckyeahtattoos:

Narwal tattoo, done by me Christian Lanouette at the Montreal convention 2012

Boenne.

xixdegrees:

J. C. Leyendecker, The Magi

fuckyeahtattoos:

Tattoo done by Gabriel Iglesias, in Studio de Arte, Salvador, Brasil.

(Untitled) In the Forest.  Sam Moss.

welovepaintings:

Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896)
Perseus and Andromeda
Oil on canvas
c1891
129.3 x 235 cm
(4’ 2.91” x 7’ 8.52”)
Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, United Kingdom)

maudelynn:

The Four Seasons, by Fabien Fabiano, c.1916

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Young Teddy Roosevelt was a stone cold fox. Here he is straight from sculling practice at Harvard. 

laphamsquarterly:

Theodore Roosevelt. IN SHORTS. 

beckycloonan:

Ivan Bilibin. Russian illustrator. If you can get your hands on any of his books, it’s worth it (even if it’s in Russian and you can’t read it) because honestly the computer screen doesn’t do his work justice. Also, he was kind of smokin! Let’s hear it for Ivan.

colourbomb:

Illustration for the Swedish edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Alvaro Tapia