Alex Connorさんのイラストまとめ

“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

Bram Stoker
author of Dracula

Image: Goya

The Rossettis
Tate Britain, London
6 Apr–24 Sep

Well, even though I'm not a huge fan of the Pre-Raphaelites, the Rossettis are rather enticing.
This should be worth seeing....

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one:
'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.'
And God granted it."

Voltaire.

Image: Louis-Leopold Boilly’s The Grimaces (1823)
(The face on the left is a self portrait of the artist)

Just re-discovering Maximilian Pirner (1854-1924) a wondrous Czech painter, whose paintings have an eerie, plaintive sensuality in his many depictions of death or dying.
'The Silence.'

'People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.'

Isaac Asimov

Narcissism at its finest.

"Has God forgotten all I have done for Him?"

Louis XIV
King of France. 1638 - 1715

Portrait - Charles le Brun.

'A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.'

Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Author of Don Quixote
1547 - 1616

'Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.'

Bertrand Russell

'A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.'

W. H. Auden

@pieroBENEDETTO