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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…
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Favourite painters
My 5 favourite painters : Frank Bernard Dicksee, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John William Waterhouse, John William Godward and Charles Amable Lenoir Source : Pinterest
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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
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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
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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).
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Helen of Troy holding a rose at sunset
I mixed two Gustave Moreau’s paintings and a rose i photographed.
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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
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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).
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Melody from the past
Mix of my two photos of the “Galerie Mazarin” in the “Bibliothèque Richelieu” in Paris.
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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.
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A redhead woman adorned with flowers
Jules Frédéric Ballavoine’s painting and my photos of floxers (Orange dahlia and iris).
