Long hair in paintings and things of old...

[Beckstar]

That's beautiful!

In 2013 DH and I went to Skagen in northern Denmark and this painting was in the museum, an odd subject but I did love the hair!

It looks like your hair, Sarah!

[queencarrion]

^ This is a picture postcard of Atayal indigenous people of Taiwan, which shows a woman with beautiful knee-length hair. This postcard is in the collection of Lafayette College Special Collections. I just think it's beautiful, I love the natural taper of her hair.






^ These are two more picture postcards, dating from approximately 1905. They depict two Alsacian women - one whose classic-length hair is down and being dressed by the other one. This is such a playful and sweet pair of images featuring hair. I love their amazing Schlupfkapp hair pieces as well, so neat to see the traditional headgear of Strasbourg/Alsace in a souvenir postcard from that era.

[lapushka]

queencarrion, those are neat! Thanks for posting!

[Iyashikei]

I don't know if it was in one of the videos from earlier in this thread, but Birth of Venus by Botticelli is my favorite painting of all time https://www.google.be/search?q=birth...UM5KTJVXYfzvKM

Victoria Frances likes to draw long hair too https://www.google.be/search?q=victo...6K_9u8PupyWoAQ

This one by Yoshitaka Amano https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.3446...000,f8f8f8.jpg

[tuanyiji]

What a great source, I want them to be a screensaver that automatically plays the slideshow with soft classical music

[ReiHino]

I´m on tumblr and I follow some art blogs so those paintings pop up from time to time. They´re not easy to find because not everyone tags their posts but this blog for example has a long hair tag and you can see many more.



Auguste Levêque - Hymne à la Femme (1909) (tumblr post)

[Christi May]

Edmund Blair Leighton's work has a lot of long-haired (and sometimes very long-haired) women. He was a pre-Raphaelite painter, so that should tell you most of what you need to know about his style. (Actually, most of the pre-Raphaelites have long-haired women in their paintings.) His work is mainly medieval themed and extremely beautiful and detailed. If you've ever seen The Accolade, with the woman in a white dress knighting a man, that's his painting. I would highly recommend looking him up.

(Sorry I can't imbed an image. I'm pretty new and I don't think I have the right user permissions.)

[ETJ CURLS]

Edmund Blair Leighton's work has a lot of long-haired (and sometimes very long-haired) women. He was a pre-Raphaelite painter, so that should tell you most of what you need to know about his style. (Actually, most of the pre-Raphaelites have long-haired women in their paintings.) His work is mainly medieval themed and extremely beautiful and detailed. If you've ever seen The Accolade, with the woman in a white dress knighting a man, that's his painting. I would highly recommend looking him up.

(Sorry I can't imbed an image. I'm pretty new and I don't think I have the right user permissions.)

Ah yes, you mean this image.

It's so very iconic. I've been in love with that painting for a long time.

(Nevermind the fact that most medieval european ladies would have kept their hair mostly or fully covered based on the actual art from the time.)