Simple embellishments

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"Estanque de Nenúfares", 1890

Oh how we love you, "Dance at Bougival" ✨

One of Renoir's most ambitious and beloved works, this painting was executed in the studio but captures with delightful immediacy a sunny afternoon.

The open-air cafés of Bougival, a town on the Seine outside Paris, were popular recreation spots for city dwellers, including the Impressionists. Here, at one such café, an amateur boatman in a straw hat sweeps his stylish partner along in a waltz. The touch of their gloveless hands and the flush in the girl’s cheek suggest an amorous subtext to this suburban scene.

🎨: "Dance at Bougival" (1883), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, oil on canvas

Wonderful!

Antiques embellishments

The desire to beautify the body, produced taste for embellishments, from simple leaves or fruits, until true works of art, as old as the human being.
In ancient times, were used as ornament, trophy or amulet, animal's teeth, Horn, hair or bones. Hunters, until now, have continued with this custom.
The jewelry has had his own label in each culture of the ancient world. Thus, we see precious works made by Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Persian...
The Romans also cultivated glyptics, or the art of creating cuts with fine gemstones, coral, shells or lapis lazuli.