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Claude-Joseph Vernet died #OTD 1789. His paintings are reminiscent of works by Claude Lorrain 100~ yrs earlier #Art #ArtHistory @ngadc
“He frequented every possible society, drank heavily, bought paintings, built, but, above all, he read."
—#Tolstoy, d. #OTD 1910 #amreading
On Shakespeare Sunday here are some Shakespeare-inspired works by William Blake #ShakespeareSunday #RichardIII #Hamlet #Blake #Art
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
—Wilde, b. #OTD
The Jungfrau Massif, Switzerland, by Carl Triebel, died #OTD 1885. Other Jungfrau pics from my journey back in June.
I knew no good could be about them...their dreamy eyes, looking back into the ghastly years that were gone.
—Gaskell
Solitude is indispensable for my dialogue with nature.
—Caspar David Friedrich, born #OTD 1774
#CasparDavidFriedrich
The Secret Meeting (Les Progrès de l'amour: Le rendez-vous), by Jean-Honoré Fragonard who died #OTD 1806
#FolkloreThursday A changeling child. A child of a fairy or other creature left in the place of a human child.