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The light
never grows old
in a sunless sea.
Ivan Aivazovsky-A Moonlit Night at Sea-1885
'Daphne transforming into a tree while fleeing from Apollo", beautiful illustration by Arthur Rackham from Milton's “Comus”, 1921.
The Ages of Man :
A Play in 4 Acts
I-Wonder
II-Faith
III-Suffering
IV-Wisdom
Drawing studies of man-Franz von Stuck-[1863-1928]
Hieronymus Bosch painted at least 20 owls scattered all over his paintings,often interpreted as a symbol of the occult & the ominous as seen through the eyes of a 15th century christian where the devil embodies temptation, the ever-menacing darkness preying on unsuspected souls.
And the deathless head
sang between two shores:
of daydreams and unremembered
souls
Henri-Léopold Lévy-The Death of Orpheus -1870
The universe as infinite rings ever-expanding while the three snakes could represent time without beginning or end...
M.C. Escher-Snakes-1969, woodcut [his last work]
The evocative moonlit gothic landscapes of Sebastian Pether [1790–1844]
Moonlit whirl
veils dormant soul
dream not yet
Endymion
Goddess here
dark light allure
to kindle
your fallen soul
G.FWatts-Endymion1872