On this blog you will find some light reading and fun facts about the 19th century. No heavy academic research but mostly info, pictures, and links on, for example, famous people, art, architecture, music, literature, and fashion, and also some movie and book reviews.
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was a momentous work of art to impact every realm of society in the nineteenth century. This was the time of the rise of the ‘petit-bourgeoisie’ society and the introduction of a new middle class...
In the victorian era, a healthy and natural complexion was valued (or pale and delicate look), especially for young people. However, makeup was used, but it was a bit of a taboo and certainly not to be revealed to others. Here is a fragment from An Old...
Here’s something from the book Innocence and Decadence: Flowers in Northern European Art 1880-1914, (which is a very good book by the way, and can be bought here!) from the chapter “Flowering Symbols”:
In the nineteenth century, flowers became used...
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