giulia farnese + looking down. for i-canz-kill-dragon.
jaded-mandarin:
Ingres. Detail from Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839).
a-harlots-progress:
Lucrezia and her brother Cesare
Maria Isabel of Portugal in front of the Prado in 1829. Detail.
The Duchess (2008)
I wish I could go with you. I should kidnap you.
detail of a portrait of maria fyodorovna by konstantin makovsky