"The Regal Twelve" - Alexia Sinclair's Fantastic Digital Portraits of Some of the Most Powerful Women in Western History

The Regal Twelve is a series of jaw-dropping portraits created by Australian digital artist Alexia Sinclair of some of the most powerful and influential women in history.



Among those women are Queen Elizabeth I of England who is depicted in all her regal glory. The guillotined Queen of France Marie Antoinette is showcased surrounded by all the pomp and circumstance and decadence of pre-revolutionary France and the tragic Queen Cleopatra of Egypt is displayed surrounded by snakes.



Queen Elizabeth I



Marie Antoinette (The Extravagant Queen)



Cleopatra (The Seductress)



Alexandra Romanov (The Last Czarina)



Catherine the Great (The Enlightened Empress)



Elizabeth Bathory (The Countess of Blood)



Christina of Sweden (The Androgynous Queen)



Olympias (The Sorcerous)



Eleanor of Aquitaine (The Eagle)



Agrippina (The Poisoness)



Boudica (The Celtic Queen)



Isabella of Spain (The Catholic)



I fell in love with this fantastic work the minute I saw it.

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The Provocative and Amazingly Beautiful Digital Art of Natalie Shau

This stuff is absolutely awesome! I'm totally in love with the work of Lithuanian-based digital artist Natalie Shau. Her evocative, edgy, provocative and aesthetically beautiful style is very similar to that of Ray Caesar who has been featured at Lunatica Desnuda before. The first 7 images come from a commercial campaign called Fairy Tales for French jewelry designer Lydia Courteille. The rest of the soulful portraits come from a collection called Art of Mourning





































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Digitalized Moving Images from the Mid 1800's to Early 1900's

Using gif animation trickery, Joshua Heineman has been adding an extra dimensions to old pictures from the New York Public Library. I really love these images from the mid 1800's to the early 1900's USA. I've had a long and simmering love affair with history and archeology and I find these images from a younger United States during the Industrial Revolution really engaging.

1. Photographer 18 stories above Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1906
2. Broadway, New York City, circa 1860
3.“Powder monkey” on the Pawnee, American civil war, circa 1863
4.Vine-covered structure in Central Park, New York City, circa 1882
5.Cooking classes at Proximity Cotton Mill, North Carolina, 1909
6.Chinatown opium den, San Francisco, circa 1884
7.Chinatown, San Francisco, circa 1884

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