Classical Gentry

30 y guy, Portugal, coffee addict, tea lover, history nerd, traveller, aesthete, enjoying classical music and good literature. Classicist in every aspect. Welcome to my world.

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Paul Verlaine & Arthur Rimbaud, Brussels, 1873.

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"Le Bateau ivre" première page de la copie manuscrite par Paul Verlaine vers 1871.

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OWE ZERGE. "Saint Sebastian”

Probably executed circa 1933-35. 

Oil on canvas 

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Nude Study. Henry Scott Tuke, undated.

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The society of fine young men...

  Painting: James Tissot (1836-1902), "The Circle of the Rue Royale", 1868 (Oil on canvas).

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A major example of Tissot's modernity, emblematic of the intellectual and mundane atmosphere of the time, this piece contributed to the young painter's recognition as he was emerging as one of the most talented portrait painters of his generation.

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From left to right: 

1- Comte de La Tour-Maubourg, 

2- Marquis de Lau, 

3- Comte de Ganay, 

4 - Comte de Rochechouart, 

5- C. Vansittant, 

6- Marquis de Miramon, 

7- Baron Hottinguer, 

8- Marquis de Ganay, 

9- Gaston de Saint-Maurice, 

10- Prince de Polignac, 

11- Marquis de Gallifet 

12-  Charles Haas. 

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Boy sitting on the tomb for Dionysios of Kollytos, Kerameikos Cemetery, Athens -1895 photo Wilhelm von Plüschow.

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Elizabeth II & Philip after Coronation, 1957.

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Young Prince Philip sashaying his way through a cricket match.

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The Swimming Hole is an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)

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The Wrath of Achilles (1847) by François-Léon Benouville (Musée Fabre)

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Oedipus and the Sphinx, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1808.

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Hugh Grant as Clive Durham in Maurice (1987)

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 Michaelina Wautier, Bacchanal (Triumph of Bacchus), (1659?), 270 x 354 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

A true rebel, Michaelina Wautier (1604-1689) is believed to be the first female artist to depict a male nude. 

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Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings (2013) dir. John Krokidas

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Here some of my favorites :

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A great master of the piano. 

Vladimir Horowitz plays Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude in D flat Major, Op.28 No.15