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Lady Clementina Augusta Wellington Villiers (1824–58). Medieval and Renaissance beauties in engravings

Medieval and Renaissance beauties in engravings is a gallery of British Queens. In the Medieval times children from royal and noble families were married at a young age. Usually girls were as young as 12 when they married, and boys as young as 14. The first recorded age-of-consent law dates back 800 years. In 1275, in England, Westminster 1 statute, made it a misdemeanor to “ravish” a “maiden within age,” whether with or without her consent. “Within age” was the age of marriage, which at the time was 12 years of age. There were authorities who claimed that consent could take place earlier. For many noble-born or royal women, marriage often took place at a young age. There are many instances or very young girls being betrothed and married under the age of 10 years old.
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White, violet, purple flowers. Al Ain Paradise largest flower park in the world

Al Ain Paradise largest flower park in the world
In a small town of Al Ain, which is in the United Arab Emirates, re-opened the world’s largest flower park, which, I think, people rightly call the Paradise – Al Ain Paradise. Beautiful floral carpet shimmers all existing colors – from yellow to blue and purple and burgundy. Besides, the floral park covers an area of about twenty-one thousand square meters and in addition to this fact, it is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of hanging flower baskets. Picturesque compositions and creative floral designs of different shapes and colors is simply amazing. Florists used different varieties of plants from different continents of the Earth.
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Poppies – Monet’s Pond. English artist Peter Ellenshaw (1913-2007)

English artist Peter Ellenshaw
Born in London, his artistic career has spanned more than seven decades. Considered the chief master of marine and landscape painting of his generation, Peter Ellenshaw worked with many acclaimed directors. In particular, Walt Disney, Stanley Kubrick and Michael Powell. He was the Oscar winner for special effects artist, film production designer, illustrator and designer of formal concept of “Disney Legend.” Beautiful works by Peter Ellenshaw decorate collections and galleries around the world. He has received numerous awards from many prestigious institutions. Among them the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the American Film Institute in Chicago. In February 2007, Peter died peacefully at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was 93.
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Orange morning. Beautiful birds and flowers by Lucia Lin

Beautiful birds and flowers by Lucia Lin. Taiwan based photographer Lucia Lin captures amazingly beautiful images of birds and flowers with her Olympus camera. The colors are natural, not Photo-shopped. I haven’t found any additional information about the talented photographer, so a set of inspirational quotes will accompany these gorgeous shots.
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From “Big cats” series. Photo-realistic graphite drawings by Peter Williams

Photo-realistic graphite drawings by Peter Williams
British self-taught artist Peter Williams was born in 1952. He worked as a lorry driver, computer analyst, college tutor, but always found time to create art in his spare time. In 2002 he took the life changing step of becoming a full time artist, being commissioned as feature artist for Hertfordshire Life magazine. Then he moved to the East coast of Suffolk in 2005, where he lives and works now. The talented artist concentrates on wildlife and figurative work, producing beautiful and highly detailed, photo-realistic graphite, charcoal, watercolor, pastel or mixed media images. Peter Williams was honored for the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist Of The Year award 2010 and 2011. The stunning gallery of Peter Williams includes paintings feature Wildlife, horses, pets, landscape, seascape, figurative and portraiture. Here are some artworks from the set of drawings “Big Cats”.
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Solitude, graphite drawing by French artist Cloudmilk

French self-taught artist Claude
Nicknamed ‘Cloudmilk’ (born August 14), Claude has been on deviant art since 2010 when he started drawing. According to the artist, he is still searching his own style. Cloudmilk’s small gallery includes beautiful hyperrealistic pencil drawings which leave no one indifferent. The young artist tries to capture the essential of a subject, and shows emotion, movement and light.
The artist himself says “I love all kind of graphic arts. I focus on graphite drawing at the moment as I’m learning, but my goal is painting and wood sculpture. Photography can be so inspiring too. I love classical and realistic art.. I wish I could live with my art … sometime”.
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Christian Dior et la Russie

Christian Dior et la Russie is the story of a man who crosses Russia, from Moscow to Irkutsk, to warn the Tsar’s brother of the Tartar invasion. Both love story and epic novel, the book is Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne, and it sat by the bedside of a young Christian Dior as he dreamed of adventures, like any boy his age and, through literature, lost himself on the wild Siberian plains. Fashion House Christian Dior was headed by the young fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, and to bring Paris fashion just for five days to the Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain – was his extravagant idea. In 1959, the French couturier sent to Moscow 12 models with 120 couture dresses for a first parade of the fashion house in the Russian capital. During three days, 11,000 people visited the famous Moscow club Les ailes du soviet seeing the collection. The pictures of that event are the golden age of fashion, where the silhouette of women were incredibly feminine.

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Girl’s portrait. Painting by Russian artist Nikolai Blokhin

Russian artist Nikolai Blokhin
Born 22 May 1968 in St. Petersburg, contemporary artist Blokhin without a doubt will be on a par with the world’s classical paintings over the centuries. Blokhin received a classical education at the St. Petersburg Art Institute named after Repin, considered one of the best followers of Russian art with a new level of academic and realistic traditions.
Known primarily as a portrait painter, Nikolai Blokhin also paints landscapes, still lifes, and genre paintings. However, the portrait is the most important aspect of his talent. Blokhin is not only a skilled artist, a great colorist, he is also a connoisseur of human souls. His portraits have psychological insight, passion and emotion, idea and inspiration.
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Colored stones of Dior Fine Joaillerie new collection

Colored stones of Dior Fine Joaillerie new collection
Another beautiful collection of jewelry Dior Fine Joaillerie is dedicated to the founder of the fashion house – Christian Dior. Couturier was very fond of colored stones, because, in his words, they give the true value to jewelry, and unusual glow to body. French jewellery designer Victoire de Castellane, the chief jeweler of Dior brand, was in full solidarity with the great fashion designer, and she shows her new collection. It contains twenty-one pieces of jewelry, each of which is studded with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, tourmalines and garnets of different colors.
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