Vaudricourt/Thorsmork

rwa42: In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:45:37 +0100

In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide, as her body showed no marks of violence, but her beauty and her enigmatic smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face.

In the romantic atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe, the girl’s face became an ideal of feminine beauty. The protagonist of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge writes, “The mouleur, whose shop I pass every day, has hung two plaster masks beside his door. [One is] the face of the young drowned woman, which they took a cast of in the morgue, because it was beautiful, because it smiled, because it smiled so deceptively, as if it knew.”

Ironically, in 1958 the anonymous girl’s features were used to model the first-aid mannequin Rescue Annie, on which thousands of students have practiced CPR. Though the girl’s identity remains a mystery, her face, it’s said, has become “the most kissed face of all time.”

Whoa.

Goya

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:15:02 +0100

Goya

Photo

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:11:25 +0200

potato ready

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:03:10 +0100

potato ready

Hana Matsuri

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:08:29 +0100

Hana Matsuri

ikenbot: New Zealand Milky Way by P.K. Chen The spectacular...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:06:23 +0100

ikenbot:

New Zealand Milky Way

by P.K. Chen

The spectacular southern hemisphere view of the Milky Way is photographed above the Church of the Good Shepherd at the shore of Lake Tekapo in the South Island of New Zealand.

Mount John University Observatory, New Zealand’s premier astronomical observatory, is situated near the lake and with support of New Zealand government the starry sky of the lake is considered a nominate site for UNESCO Starlight Reserve initiative; a new approach to preserve the dark sites as a World Heritage.

En attendant…

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:57 +0100

En attendant…

Photo

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:37:20 +0100

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Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:19:59 +0100

"A part la turque, il y a 2 autres types types de lutte: la manière de lutter de Ceylan et la manière..."

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:07:15 +0200

“A part la turque, il y a 2 autres types types de lutte: la manière de lutter de Ceylan et la manière de lutter russe.”

- L’art de lutter de Maître Manshipour Vihv

slowlydrifting: Svein Nordrum Lantern

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:55:33 +0200

slowlydrifting:

Svein Nordrum
Lantern

inothernews: Re-posting this from over the weekend: M.C. Escher...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:42:00 +0200

inothernews:

Re-posting this from over the weekend: M.C. Escher done up in Lego.

(Via the Telegraph)

foxgloves: (by Beverly & Pack)

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:44:41 +0200

foxgloves:

(by Beverly & Pack)

Clematis

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:42:00 +0200

Clematis

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Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:32:06 +0200

"On ne balaie pas les feuilles un jour de grand vent."

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:27:36 +0200

“On ne balaie pas les feuilles un jour de grand vent.”

-
Phil

"Make hay when the sun shines."

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:21:11 +0200

“Make hay when the sun shines.”

Sunrise Marquenterre

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:19:00 +0200

Sunrise Marquenterre

colbeans: Yajuro Takashima（高島野十郎 Japanese 1890-1975）Mangetsu...

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:27:01 +0200

colbeans:

Yajuro Takashima（高島野十郎 Japanese 1890-1975）
Mangetsu 満月 1963

Jura 1994-2011

Mon, 02 May 2011 14:02:58 +0200

Jura 1994-2011