That’s right. I am.

(Source: tommosbulge)

theclearlydope:

Just watch until everything is alright.

honeyspider:

WOMEN OF HISTORY | CATERINA VAN HEMESSEN (1528 – after 1587) (Liv Tyler)

The earliest female Flemish painter with verifiable work, Caterina van Hemessen is considered to be the creator of the artist self-portrait in front of an easel.

Female artists of the time were extremely rare: the training would require dissection of cadavers and the study of the nude male form - both of which were forbidden to women - and to find an artist to apprentice under. Caterina, like her few contemporary women artists, was trained by a close relative. (In Caterina’s case it was her father.)

Despite her gender Caterina would eventually be held in high esteem in the Guild of St Luke and took a position as a teacher to three male students. She caught the attention of Mary, queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and the queen became her patron. After Mary’s death Caterina was supplied with a pension to allow her to paint in freedom for the rest of her life.

There are no existing paintings by Caterina after her marriage at the age of twenty-six and it is assumed that she she retired to raise a family.

thefirstwaltz:

Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, 1905. 

Beautiful dress

quatre1six:

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953.