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"If necessary, I would even paint with my bottom"

... to no avail. Painter of Rococo cocottes & ironically buoyant genre scenes Jean-Honoré Fragonard #DOTD 1806 impoverished in Paris, unable to cope with the Revolution's austere Classicism à la J.L. David

‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,’
The shade replied,—
‘If you seek for Eldorado!’ (Edgar Allan Poe)

Dulac's take on Poe's moribund questing knight for the today's somehow ghost-themed #WyrdWednesday

@EnchantedEzine Well, we've already met the djinn to end all djinni today... but art-wise, Dulac's are strong contenders, I dare say...

"5 feet from the ground in fair capital letters was graven CROATOAN without any cross or sign of distress"

Governor John White returned #OTD 1590 to Roanoke, the first English colony in North America, only to find it completely abandoned, the 118 settlers gone without a trace

"The movement ... is a protest against the turning of men into machines, against artificial distinctions in art and making the immediate market value or possibility of profit the chief test of artistic merit"

Arts & Crafts Movement illustrator & painter Walter Crane #BOTD 1845

@BekeRode Quite. The Dutch "Golden Age" masters had a significant influence here - e.g. "Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast", Ludolf Bakhuizen (from Emden, actually), 1667

"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!" (W.B. Yeats)

On a more sombre note, there's the sluagh, the host of restless dead turned fae. They certainly dance, too, though

#FolkloreThursday

"Glorious! I never saw such a noble creature."
"Some people call it a black puma, but really it is not a puma at all. That fellow is nearly eleven feet from tail to tip" Arthur Conan Doyle

A few lines on American lions (I kid you not!) for #WordLionDay

https://t.co/DqFAQIWC8U

“Maybe they are right, but I love diversity and I can’t run away from myself”

Peredvizhnik, wanderer, Realist (and far more) painter Ilya Repin was born #OTD 1844.

"They call me the ruler of the desert; I am the Robber Orbasan."

Half French, revolution refugee, Boney's adversary in Egypt, rogue, rescuer, traveller & teller of tales - the Byronic central figure of Wilhelm Hauff's Kunstmärchen, the Robber Orbasan

#FairyTaleTuesday