Ars longa, vita brevis

«Ya no tenemos nada que buscar —harto está el corazón—, vacío el mundo». Novalis. Himnos a la noche.

[wanderlustfuldays]

Chapel Ruins, Monserrate Palace Gardens Sintra, Portugal

[shisasan]

Werther and Lotte, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther Courtyard of Goethe’s House Frankfurt, Germany

Aleksandra Alba IG: tanzdreamer 🜍 ⟡ ⟢   

[enchantedbook]

Harry Clarke illustration for Goethe's 'Faust ', 1925.

[dailyclassicart]

Antonietta Brandeis - "Porta della Carta" (1886)

[7pleiades7]

La Sculpture (1896) by Paul-François Quinsac (French, 1858 – 1929), signed and dated (lower right), oil on canvas, 250.2 × 134.6 cms. (98 1/2 x 52 3/4 in.), Private Collection

[nobrashfestivity]

Ken Domon Right and left hand of the sitting image of Buddha Shakyamuni, in the Hall of Miroku, Nara, 1942

[diioonysus]

rings + art

[fordarkmornings]

Two Nymphs.  Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1724-1805)

Flow, 1903.  Maxmilián Pirner (Czech, 1853-1924)

A Maid Combing a Woman’s Hair, 1883.  Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824-1898)

Fairies by the Brook, 1895.  Maxmilián Pirner (Czech, 1853-1924)

[charnel-grounds]

Robert Stewart Sheriffs (1906–1960), “Death and the Virgins”, 1929

illustration to ‘The Life and Death of Tamburlaine the Great’ by Christopher Marlowe

lithograph on paper

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[douvaqueenmarieheard]

illustration titled "Cobweb" by Nell Brinkley, 1921

[ducissatenebrarum]

Death of the Veiled King (detail) - Charlotte Major Wyllie, c.1893.

[szczekaczz]

George Bouverie Goddard, The Struggle for Existence (1879)

[charnel-grounds]

Pasquale Liotta Cristaldi (1850–1909) - The Nightmare, 1906

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[dailyclassicart]

Jean-Paul Sinibaldi - "Salammbô (detail)" (1885)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Armand Point (French, 1861–1932) Venus au Mirror, n.d.

[charnel-grounds]

Giovanni Battista Nocchi (19th century) - “The Penitent Magdalene”, detail, 1822

[balkanparamo]

Incubus by Lee James McKnight