[random-brushstrokes]

Ivan Petrovich Bogdanov - Asleep (1901)

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1867) by Frédéric Bazille

[weepingwidar]

Magnus Enckell (Finnish, 1870-1925) - Youth (1897)

[msmarymillspaulos]

Duncan Grant

Self Portrait

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

British Artist

[aarchval]

Thomas Gainsborough, Blue Boy, 1770.

[dykiebratzdoll]

Medical Students, Gerard Dillon (1916–1971), c.1949, from National Museums NI

[thesandbeneathmytoes]

“Think of yourself rather as something much humbler and less spectacular, but to my mind, far more interesting — a poet in whom live all the poets of the past, from whom all poets in time to come will spring. You have a touch of Chaucer in you, and something of Shakespeare; Dryden, Pope, Tennyson — to mention only the respectable among your ancestors — stir in your blood and sometimes move your pen a little to the right or to the left. In short you are an immensely ancient, complex, and continuous character, for which reason please treat yourself with respect and think twice before you dress up as Guy Fawkes and spring out upon timid old ladies at street corners, threatening death and demanding twopence-halfpenny.”

— “Letter to A Young Poet,” Virgina Woolf

[the-other-voice]

“(…) and for my part I do not believe in poets dying; Keats, Shelley, Byron, are alive here in this room in you and you and you - (…)”

— Virginia Woolf, A Letter to a Young Poet

[thorsteinulf]

Malcolm Drummond - The Stag Tavern (1929)

[mythologypaintings]

Apollo and Marsyas

Artist: Hans Thoma (German, 1839–1924)

Date: 1888

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Along with Arnold Böcklin, Hans Thoma was a leading Northern European figure in the shift from Realism and history painting to art inspired by classical myths and legends. Taken from Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses, Thoma showed the satyr Marsyas challenging Apollo, the master of the lyre, to a musical contest. Although he avoided depicting the cruel outcome of the match (the satyr lost and was flayed alive by Apollo), the artist’s treatment of Apollo, whose idealized body and luminous skin set him apart from the shadowy halftones of his challenger, hints at the winner.

[chigley60s]

THREE MUSICIANS (1923) BY ROBERT AMREIN

[sangfroidwoolf]

“The objects of my affection are never aware of the place they hold in my heart, or that I am so primed with the details of their existence that I can at any moment of the day pinpoint their whereabouts. But so remote am I, and so aloof, that they may not even think of me as a friend. None long to know me as long as I know them; all are normal, as I think of it; none, as I also think of it, are queer.”

— Alan Bennett, Untold Stories (2005)

[pastart]

Christopher Makos (1994)

[casaannabel]

[e-ndymi0n]

Stanley Spencer, Self-portrait, 1914

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Brideshead Revisited (1981)

Dir by Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Starring Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder, Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyte, Castle Howard as Brideshead.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Brideshead Revisited (1981). Ep1, "Et in Arcadia Ego".

[carloskaplan]

Fernando Cidoncha: Descanso (2022)