unbrivido:

Georges de LA TOUR
The Dream of St Joseph c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 93 x 81 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
Êtude Tete de Jeune Fille, 1898, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Franz Liszt, a composer and a pianist. His fans went so crazy during his performances that Heinrich Heine (a German poet, journalist, literary critic and another dead guy I’d love to bang) termed the hysteria “Lisztomania.”
A Boy Blowing on an Ember to Light a Candle, El Greco 
A Tailor, ca. 1570, Moroni Giovanni Battista
professorspictureshow:

Emile Friant (1863-1932)“Self Portrait”
noblebeasts:

Nicola Samori
Annie Gambart (detail), ca. 1851, William Powell Frith
Miss Helen Duinham, John Singer Sargent
Anna of Austria (queen of France, mother of king Louis XIV), Peter Paul Rubens 
The Balance of the Zodiac, Luis Riccardo Falero