Mary Pickford

Terracotta mould for the relief decoration of stoneware, impressed with a standing figure of a lady in court costume, Rhineland, ca. 1560-1615 https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O160710/mould-unknown/

Terracotta mold, used for decorating stoneware, ca. 1560-1615 (V&A)

After fighting backstage, Louise as Lulu seduces her lover and keeper (Fritz Kortner) and then gloats as they’re discovered by his new fiancée (Daisy D’ora) and son (Franz Lederer). A classic scene from Louise’s greatest film: Pandora’s Box (1929).

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Gift of Mrs. Alfred Schermerhorn, 1946

Slippers #artbots #themet
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100571

Stella Maris (1918)

#silentfilm #marypickford

Artemisia Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders under restoration

Artemisia Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders installed in the Palace of Holyroodhouse

Artemisia Gentileschi's "Susanna and the Elders," recently rediscovered and restored, on display at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh www.rct.uk/event/artemi...

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Fletcher Martin, Trouble in Frisco, 1938

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134557

Today's the feast of St Apollonia, a 3C Alexandrian martyr who was hugely popular in late medieval England, for she could be asked to intercede against toothache. Here she is holding a tooth in pincers on the late 15C screen at Ludham, Norfolk.

Ludham: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/ludha...

Midsummer Night’s Dream

And I float—
untethered, fever-warm, skin flushed ripe.
Is your hand still holding mine?

Honey pools in the corners of my mouth,
thick, golden heat trickling down my throat
…

(Full poem link in bio)

#poetry

Painting: The Quarrel of Oberon & Titania by Sir Joseph Paton

Longleat in 1675, w/ excellent view of its A+ rooftop banqueting pavilions. An amazing house, here painted by Flemish artist Jan Siberechts, whose day is today.

Seven wildly-costumed women raise their cups in victory. They represent the seven deadly sins.

Image from the lost silent drama HELL'S FOUR HUNDRED (1926)

Here’s one of my favourite paintings, El Sueño [c 1800] by Goya (1746-1828). It’s in the Dublin National Gallery & magical. Using a build up of thin layers of paint he manages to trick the eye into believing that the woman’s chest is breathing! Goya was fascinated with dreaming!

A painting of a white woman with brown hair gazing heavenward, with her right elbow bent and her right hand held up as though in supplication. She is depicted from about the waist up. She wears a reddish-purple dress with long white sleeves. In her left hand she holds the traditional symbols of the torture of martyr-saint Apollonia, the outsized pinchers gripping a molar.

Saint Apollonia, c. 1642-4, by #ArtemisiaGentileschi (Italian, 1593-1653). Held at El Museo Soumaya; source, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

#womenartists #artherstory #FeastOfStApollonia #StApolloniaFeastDay

Time for some energetic entertainment from #SuperbOwl courtesy, of course, of Hieronymus Bosch. Go owls!

Charlotte Rampling stands upon a porch showing off her leg.

Charlotte Rampling, circa 1976

She was BOTD in 1946

Presented by the Art Fund 1912

George Adolphus Storey, My Mother, 1874
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1112633

Illustrated MS St Michael battling creatures over sea.

Saint Michael, Lieven van Lathem.

"Cyclopia". Today's word is "eye". Actual vintage images. I cut out tiny squares from antique rug , floor tile catalogs for my floors.
#collage #FebruArty2025 #angle #collageart #fantasy #humor #surrealism #cathyhorner #mixmedia #traditionalart #FebruArty #cyclops. #monster #cyclopia

François Truffaut (with scenes form his film "The Story of Adèle H" featuring Isabelle Adjani) - BOTD

deliciously gloomy 🕯️

John Donne has my heart 🫀 🏹

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)

“I'll be glad when this thing's over.“ One Way Passage (1932) #TCM31DaysofOscar

Pleurants, Anonymous. Castile, ca 1295.
From the tomb of Don Sancho Sáiz de Carrillo and his wife Juana, San Andrés de Mahamud, Burgos, Spain.