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"Ophélie" by Jean-Baptiste Bertrand, 1867

#ophélie #ophelia #art #painting #oil on canvas #19th century art #jean baptiste bertrand

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"He who builds on the people, builds on the mud."

Niccolo Machiavelli, from The Prince

#qotd

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"Primevères" by Jan Bogaerts, 1936

#jan bogaerts #art #painting

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John Collier, Marion Collier (née Huxley), detail, 1882-1883

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“Sleeping Woman” by Alexander von Liezen-Mayer, 1896

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The Artist’s Wife sitting at a Window in a Sunlit Room, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe

#carl vilhelm holsøe

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“A star looks down at me, And says: ‘Here I and you Stand, each in our degree. What do you mean to do,— Mean to do?’ I say: ‘For all I know, Wait, and let Time go by, Till my change come,’—‘Just so.’ The star says: ‘So mean I;— So mean I.’”

— ​Thomas Hardy, “Waiting Both,” Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy, ed. John Crowe Ransom (Macmillan 1961)

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Twilight    -    Harald Slott-Møller , 1918.

Danish, 1864-1937

Oil on canvas, 58 x 81 cm. 

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Still Life with Azaleas and Apple Blossoms 1878. Charles Caryl Coleman

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“Paolo and Francesca” by Sir Frank Dicksee, 1894

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“A Woman at a Fountain with Rising Moon” by Ferdinand Knab, 1866 (detail)

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“The Play Scene in Hamlet” by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1897 (detail)

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“Bacchante” by Edgar Maxence, 19th century

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“The Breakfast Tray” by Elizabeth Okie Paxton, 1910

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Carl Vilhelm Holsøe ((Denmark, 1863-1935)

A Sunlit Interior

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“Rose and Blue” by William McGregor Paxton, 1913

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“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. “Everything is permitted” does not mean that nothing is forbidden.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus