This is the hauntingly beautiful Shelley Memorial at Oxford. Commissioned to depict how his drowned body looked washed ashore. I hope to view this in person one day. Photo source: http://hcshakespeare.blogspot.com/
Empress Maria Feodorovna commissioned a diadem from the famous Duval Brothers. The Empress wanted something that would remind of the Russian fields, and so the brothers created a diadem of oak and laurel leaves, bordered by sheaves of wheat.
WHAT
stop it right now



