The Love of Souls, 1900
The Symbolization of The Flesh and The Spirit, 1892

by Jean Delville

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'Plato's School' by is a decoration intended for the Sorbonne but never installed there. Its monumental size and its ambitious message – an interpretation of classical philosophy seen through the prism of the symbolist ideal – set it apart.

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Naturally, I have pictures of this Delville

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L'oubli des Passions, 1913
by Jean Delville

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"I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love"

W. B. Yeats, An Irish Airman foresees his Death: https://t.co/4bNR07y0y1

🎨Les Idées (1934)
by Jean Delville
oil on canvas
private collection

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The Love of Souls by Jean Delville, 1900

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The Love of Souls (1900)

Jean Delville

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L'Idole de perversité, 1891
Parsifal, 1890

by Jean Delville

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The Symbolization of The Flesh and The Spirit by Jean Delville, 1892

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Your Daily Altar of Eros

Jean Delville - School of Plato, 1898

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Delville Wood had fallen but it was to be a few more days in September 1916 until High Wood was eventually taken. The cost in lives on both sides are hard to comprehend for such a small patch of ground.

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‘Women of Eleusis’ by Jean Delville, 1931.
Eleusis is the site of the Ancient Greek mysteries of Demeter and Persephone.

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The Triumph Of Christianity Over Paganism by Gustave Doré, 1899
L'Homme Dieu by Jean Delville, 1900

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Jean Delville, PARSIFAL, the ‘Pure Fool’ from Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Story of the Holy Grail. Parsifal is depicted as a trained occult initiate who is able to send and receive messages both clairvoyantly and clairaudiently.

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Jean Delville.1867-1953. The Last Idols.c.1931.

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Jean Delville - L’Homme Dieu. 1903

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Christ Glorified by Children

Video about the artist's paintings: https://t.co/zYev8G52BJ

French Symbolist masterpiece from Jean Delville, Christ Glorified by the Children, https://t.co/B8zqXksDv8

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Sonetti a Orfeo
Rilke


Non innalzate lapidi. La Rosa
sola fiorisca ad onorarlo ogni anno.
Perché è Orfeo sempre.
E l’una o l’altra voce
Altro non è che la sua metamorfosi.

🖼J. Delville



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Christ Glorified by Children

Video about the artist's paintings: https://t.co/zYev8G52BJ

French Symbolist masterpiece from Jean Delville, Christ Glorified by the Children, https://t.co/B8zqXksDv8

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Jean Delville was a Belgian painter (1867-1953). He was a Neoplatonist & Theosophist who believed in a higher realm. Following the failure of the ‘New Christ’ Krishnamurti in 1929, he had a burn-out & left his family for a young woman. His art and Theosophy fell out of fashion.

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