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“Exit, pursued by a bear” (The Winter’s Tale)
#ShakespeareSunday
🖼️ P.P. Sokolov "General Toptygin" (1875)
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" (Keats)
#PreRaphaelite latecomer J.W. Waterhouse was baptised #OTD 1849 in Rome
Naiad (1893)
Echo & Narcissus (1903)
The Sorceress (1911)
A Tale from the Decameron (1916)
#FairytaleTuesday
@HoldenEve While they secretly plot to make their comeback by hatching their blasphemous canary god from those shells, unleashing yellow-feathered, twittering terror on the unsuspecting world!
“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” (Anais Nin)
🖼️ Edvard Munch "The Mermaid" 1896
#FaustianFriday
@ClayFJohnson "I have,' said Blake, 'but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden, there was great stillness among the branches and flowers and more than common sweetness in the air..." (Life of Blake)
Maxmilián Pirner saw a fairy funeral, too.
#Gothicfairies
"And here, superimposed by Richard Noakes, untamed nature in the style of Salvator Rosa. It's the Gothic novel expressed in landscape. Everything but vampires.” (Tom Stoppard)
Proto-Romantic Baroque rebel Salvator Rosa died #OTD 1673 in Rome
#GothicSpring