Gustave Moreau "Galatea" c1896

Sea nymph Galatea, the fairest of all, loved mortal Acis. Cyclops Polyphemus had his lecherous eye on her, so crushed Acis' head with a stone. Galatea immortalised her beloved as a water sprite, whose blood would flow as a river forever more

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Perseus and Andromeda
Gustave Moreau 1826-1898 French Symbolist Painter

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Dream of the Orient
Gustave Moreau 1826-1898 French Symbolist Painter

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Aquarelles de Fanny Nushka Moreaux, artiste peintre française contemporaine.

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"O Delion king, whose light-producing eye views all within, and all beneath the sky; whose locks are gold, whose oracles are sure, who omens good revealest, and precepts pure" --Orphic Hymn 34 to Apollo

The Chariot of Apollo, or Phoebus Apollo (c.1880), Gustave Moreau

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Galatea, “ she who is milk-white “.

Galatea is also the name of Polyphemus's object

of desire in Theocritus's Idylls VI and XI

and is linked with Polyphemus again in the myth

of Acis and Galatea in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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Galatea (circa 1880) by Gustave Moreau

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Think I found my new favourite 17th c. painter.
Gustave Moreau

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signing today at 2pm! Beehive Books will be joining us at Booth for The Island of Dr. Moreau! Bill did the illustrations and will be signing the book at our booth - see you there!

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Nueva musa.
(Por cierto, la paleta de colores del primero está basada en "Helena de Troya, de Gustave Moreau)

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[LIVRE FRANCE] Réédition française de « Gauche le violoncelliste » de Kenji Miyazawa chez le 21 août.
Le court texte à l’origine du film éponyme d’Isao sera accompagné d’un dossier de Stéphanie Chaptal et d’un entretien du violoncelliste Edgar Moreau.

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