Sequere Deum

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Marcelo Canevari (Argentine, 1984) - Untitled (2018)

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forever wishing I was in the PNW during fall 🍂🪵🌧️

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NATURE ❤

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Patience on a Monument Smiling at Grief

Artist: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (British, 1829-1908)

Date: Exhibited 1884

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: From the Collection of Hartmuth Jung

Description

The theme of this picture is that of love as a continuum. Stanhope has taken as his title lines from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Act Two, Scene 4, in which Viola, disguised as a page, confesses her love for Orsino, Duke of Illyria. They discuss the nature of love, and whether men and women can love equally. Viola tells a story:

She never told her love But let concealment, like a worm i’the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pin’d in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?

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“But I need to feel beautiful and holy things around me, always: music, mystery cults, symbols, myths. I need it, and I refuse to give it up… . That’s my fatal flaw.”

— Hermann Hesse, Demian

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Variegated Squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides atrirufus), family Sciuridae, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

photographs by Hans Hillewaert