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Feb
21
2022
Birthday admiration for some remarkable women of the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts & Crafts period❤️
Birthday admiration for some remarkable women of the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts & Crafts period❤️
“I don’t believe I shall ever leave Giverny.” – Monet
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet
“Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.” – Gustav Klimt
I’ve never seen a painting with so many beautiful and delicate details. Vittore Carpaccio’s Young knight in a landscape (ca. 1505) has recently gone through full restoration at Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. The canvas, signed and dated by Carpaccio on a cartellino to the right of the figure, was attributed to Dürer until 1919. The motto Malo mori quam foedari (better to die than be defiled) placed beside a short-tailed weasel suggests that he may be a knight of the Order of the Ermine. A number of hypotheses have been advanced regarding the identity of the figure; the last one suggests […]
“Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.” – Cervantes
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi
“Intone, O My servant, the verses of God that have been received by thee, as intoned by them who have drawn nigh unto Him, that the sweetness of thy melody may kindle thine own soul, and attract the hearts of all men.” – Bahá’u’lláh
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