Andvari.

[writing-for-life]

Variations on a Kiss

…just because it’s Valentine’s Day

[links with info about the individual art/artists at bottom of post]

Gustav Klimt—The Kiss

Gustav Klimt—Fulfilment (Lovers)

Gustav Klimt—Study for “This Kiss to the Whole World”

Edvard Munch—Death and Life

Edvard Munch—Vampyr II

Edvard Munch—The Kiss 1921

Edvard Munch—The Kiss 1892

Vsevolod Maksymovych—The Kiss

Marc Chagall—Couple Amoureux

Käthe Kollwitz—Lovers II

Jean-Honoré Fragonard—Stolen Kiss

William Orpen—Night (no. 2)

Francesco Hayez—The Kiss

Auguste Rodin—The Kiss

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec—The Kiss

Lawrence Alma-Tadema—Ask me no more

Man Ray—Rayograph (The Kiss)

[old-world-paper]

The Peacock complaining to Juno (1881) by Gustave Moreau

[the-owl-of-athena]

Athena coming out of Zeus head - Athenebrunnen in Germany

[enchantedbook]

A white robed figure, with hood and mantle thrown back, glided ghost like, published in the Observer, 1893.

[orisnitsa]

Authentic traditional clothing/ Festival of the national costume in Zheravna, Bulgaria

📸 Asen Velikov

[mioritic]

Portraits of villagers from Bătrâna, Hunedoara County, Transylvania, photographed in 1958 by Romanian academics for a physiognomic study

Horia Dumitrescu and Ștefan-Marius Milcu, Cercetări antropologice în Ținutul Pădurenilor: Satul Bătrîna (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, 1961)

[cuties-in-codices]

pope gregory ix catching blood emitted from the side wound of st. francis who appears to him in a vision

in a vita of st. francis of assisi, illuminated manuscript, germany, late 14th c.

source: Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Ms. Berol. germ. quart. 357. p. 41

[mioritic]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

"Au lit", 1892

Emil Bührle Collection, Kunsthaus Zürich

[grupaok]

Käthe Kollwitz, Parents, from the series War, 1921–22, published 1923

[grupaok]

Edvard Munch, The Woman and the Bear, 1908-09. From Edward Gorey’s bequest to the Wadsworth Atheneum. 

[zvetenze]

Performance by Kapela Maliszów of the oldest recorded Polish folk song "Oj chmielu" ("Oh hop")

The song is performed on wedding ceremonies, at midnight, by older women, addressing the bride. It is believed to date back to pre-Christian times, which is indicated by it's tonality and use of pentatonic scale. The melody was first recorded in the 19th century by Oskar Kolberg, who traveled all around Poland collecting ethnographic material. Thanks to him we know the song was known across all of Poland, by both nobility and common folk.

[nthegg]

lionheart

[folkfashion]

Inga woman's clothes, Colombia, Tatiana Jacanamijoy

[mymadeleine]

Apuseni, Romania

early morning, August 2022

Zenit 122 + Fujicolor C200

[etherealcry]

"Sypanie piaskiem" is an old custom from the rural parts of Poland that consists in drawing protective or decorative symbols with sand.

[zvetenze]

I remember coming across an article in the library about a similar practice in Bulgaria (and some Western Slavic countries too, it said) of drawing shapes and symbols with water on the ground inside the house for protection and luck.

[orisnitsa]

A girl's hairstyle; Seliminovo village, Sliven, Bulgaria

Photography by M. Veleva, 1950

Source: British Library

[zvetenze]

Roma girl from Vranje, southern Serbia, 1960-70s