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"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths"

Aleksandr Pushkin was born #OTD 1799 in Moscow

"That night I couldn’t sleep. Toward sunrise I dreamed of an engraving in the style of Piranesi, one I’d never seen before or perhaps seen and forgotten—an engraving of a kind of labyrinth" (Jorge Luis Borges)

Piranesi's kafkaesque carceri d'invenzione for #Wyrdwednesday

“Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip" (A.P. Ryder)

The legendary Flying Dutchman, seen East of the Good Hope, with red sails flying or bathed in an eerie red light, a portent of doom for those whose bows she crosses.

🖼️ Howard Pyle

#Mythologymonday

@bjorn_stjerne And there's the "Neubauten" logo, of course...

@bjorn_stjerne Yay! It's Goat GIF time again!

@bjorn_stjerne Whatever floats your goat, right?

"We should like him to be less clever and more affecting - less wonderful and more terrible" (John Ruskin)

Large-scale marine drama master Clarkson Frederick Stanfield died #OTD 1867 aged 73 in London.

🖼️ "Mount St Michael, Cornwall" (1830)

"And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name" (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

🖼️ Edmund Dulac "Beauty Saw the Castle in the Distance" (1910)

#ShakespeareSunday

@James_A_Quinn @bjorn_stjerne Everything's better with goats!

"Why, the question is often asked of me
Do you choose as subjects for painting
So often death, perishing and the grave?
In order to one day live eternally
One must often submit oneself to death"

Caspar David Friedrich died #OTD 1840

#FaustianFriday #GothicSpring