#art aesthetic
Venus Discovering the Dead Adonis (detail), 1650
unknown artist.
Salome (detail), 1906
by Franz von Stuck.
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death.
“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”
Charlotte Brontë, Villette(1853).
Centaur in Love (illustration), 1987
Featured in German art magazine.
Solitude Sometimes is Best Society (illustration), 1800s
by Gustave Doré.
The Death of Socrates (painting), 1748 - 1825
by Jacques-Louis David.
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
-Heraclitus
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painting in the park
hands.
/ michaelangelo / carvaggio / da vinci / cara thayer & louie van patten /
The Corner of the Villa (Detail)
Edward John Poynter, 1889
Princess Tatiana Alexandrovna Yusupova (Detail)
Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1858
An Evening by the Lake (Detail)
Max Nonnenbruch
Dawn (Detail)
Edmund Hodgson Smart, 1907
Getting Ready for the Ball (Detail)
Viktor Schramm
Portrait of Mrs. Norman Holbrook (Detail)
Frank Dicksee, 1921
Portrait of the Honorable Mrs. Ernest Guinness (Detail)
Frank Dicksee, 1912