lament-for-the-past: Hat or hair?
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quantumly-entangled: People often ask me , “James , why do you like Baroque and Rococo ?” It’s honestly a long story and most of it can be summed up in Roger Scruton’s documentary about beauty , but in short , if one really stops and thinks about what Baroque and Rococo style is , it’s the exultation in the beautiful order that is reality . It arrests the soul because it is an attempt by the artist to create lines and figures that emulate the innate need of the human person for beauty , elegance , grace , and a salvation from the “tyranny of the mundane” . It is a reminder that as ordinary as the world seems around us , the human spirit is capable of transforming this very matter into something that resembles something like us ; that resembles our curves and shine so that our darker natures might be redeemed . Beauty used to mean something and good taste used to be a reminder of living in the real world not , as most people believe , living in some fantasy world of luxury . The flurry of colours and the contours of the Arabesque are just some examples of this kind of sigh of relief from the stoic blandness that is modernity .
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ornamentedbeing: “Robe à la française, manteau de robe, jupe et pièce d’estomac France, vers 1775” LAD
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un-boudoir: Louis Carrogis dit Carmontelle, Portrait d’Elizabeth de la Borde, comtesse D’Angivillier
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idrils: 18th century,Bouch on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/25752336
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reveille-moi: Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise. Begun 1732 Germain Boffrand.
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monsieurleprince: Vicente Garcia de Paredes (1845-1903) - Vows of love
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