"Deus espera apenas uma coisa de você, que é que você saia de si mesmo na medida em que é um ser criado e deixe que Deus seja Deus em você."
—Meister Eckhart
[Love Is A Place]

Day and night. Painter: Frederick Judd Waugh (1841-1940).

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Sunrise by Leopold Schmutzler (Bohemian-born German artist, lived 1864-1940).

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More fantasy art by Kinuko Y. Craft (b. 1940).

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The Hourman made his debut 83 years ago this month in Adventure Comics#48 (March 1940). Created by Ken Fitch and Bernard Baily.
He was a founding member of
the illustrious Justice Society Of America.

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Let’s learn about the extraordinary woman, Fanny Burney (1752–1840). Burney published more than 20 books in her lifetime. Her first novel, Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World was published anonymously and was a great success

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Morgan le Fay from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (1908) - illustrations by William Henry Margetson (1861-1940).

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My new illustration of Hyacinth Hippo, Ben Ali Gator and Elephanchine in the Dance of the Hours from Disney's Fantasia (1940). Hope you enjoy! ✨

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Morgan le Fay from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (1908) illustrations by William Henry Margetson's (1861-1940).

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The Abbey in the Oakwood (1809-10) by Caspar David Friedrich (German artist, lived 1774-1840). Leaning tombstones, lifeless trees, ruined structures in the mist.

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I feel like I added to this just last month, but it was actually May... So, here are some sublime moody visions from the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).

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Noah Webster (16 Oct 1758 - 28 May 1843), American lexicographer.

"Known for his American Spelling Book (1783) and his American Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol. (1828; 2nd ed., 1840). Instrumental in giving American English a dignity and vitality of its own."

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Susannah (c1634), Sacrifice of Isaac (1635), Belshazzar’s Feast (1636) & Portrait of Baartgen Martens Doomer (1640). Story telling is all in his religious works - tenseness, vulnerability & surprise. His portrait of Baartgen is a moving image of empathy.

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Susannah (c1634), Sacrifice of Isaac (1635), Belshazzar’s Feast (1636) & Portrait of Baartgen Martens Doomer (1640). Story telling is all in his religious works - tenseness, vulnerability & surprise. His portrait of Baartgen is a moving image of empathy.

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There is a small but extremely choice collection of Spanish works. El Greco (1577-9) An Allegory, Velázquez (1618) An Old Woman Cooking Eggs & Murillo’s Personification of Summer (1640). The Old Woman is one of Velázquez’s earliest works.

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