Princess of Salerno with doves
Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1822-1869) was the daughter of Leopold of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Prince of Salerno and of Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria. Salerno is an Italian city located in the South of the country. Mix of my photos of paintings at the exhibition about Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and Napoleon’s sister.…
Vesuvius eruption paintings
I went to the Château of Chantilly, near Paris, France, where there is an exhibition about Napoleon’s sister Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples. In 79 A.D. Vesuvius eruption caused the destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Sources : https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vesuvius and https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/mount-vesuvius.htm
Pre-Raphaelite inspired photoshoots
Pre-Raphaelitism was a British artistic movement, born in the late 1840s, in London, during the Victorian era. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of three young students of the Royal Academy : William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), John Everett Millais (1829-1896) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). They rejected any form of academism ; they wanted to…
Favourite painters
My 5 favourite painters : Frank Bernard Dicksee, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John William Waterhouse, John William Godward and Charles Amable Lenoir Source : Pinterest
Hedwige in the moonlight
I mixed an Elizabeth Gage’s snowy owl (white chalcedony with speckles of brown enamel), a moon brooch (1900s) and a an Ivan Aivazovsky’s painting (“Moonlight on the sea). Source : Pinterest
Moon beauty
I mixed a Edward Robert Hughes’s painting (“Radiant moon”, 1900), an Ivan Aivazovsky’s painting (“Moonlight on the sea) and a tiara with diamonds (second half of the 19th century). Photo source : Pinterest
Moon maiden
I mixed a Frank Bernard Dicksee’s painting (“Moon maiden”, 1923), a Victorian moon brooch and a moon and star brooch (“en tremblant” ; Georgian era).
Helen of Troy holding a rose at sunset
I mixed two Gustave Moreau’s paintings and a rose i photographed.
Salomé auréolée d’étoiles
I mixed two Gustav Moreau paintings and a 12 stars halo crown for a Catholic Saint or statue of the Virgin Mary. Sources : Pinterest and worthpoint
Blue birds flew in a forest, on a winter day…
I mixed Ilgiz Fazulzyanov jewels (“Winter Forest” earrings and a bird brooch called “Tit” and a part of a Monet’s painting (Nympheas).
Melody from the past
Mix of my two photos of the “Galerie Mazarin” in the “Bibliothèque Richelieu” in Paris.
History of the Victorian jewelry
Jewelry during Queen Victoria reign (1837-1901) was feminine, sentimental, meaningful and symbolic. Jewels were also inspired by the nature. Whereas Victorian jewelry at the beginning was heavy, intricate, full of details, jewels became at the end less ostentatious, smaller, simpler and more practical to women who were more and more many to work.
